This is a "fun" livery for the A-10C II Thunderbolt by Deimos Inc that gives it the appearance of the Cobra Rattler from Hasbro's GI Joe franchise.
The livery was created using the FREE A-10C II Thunderbolt PaintKit that is graciously provided by Deimos Inc - link here.
All decals were created in Adobe Illustrator using resource images of the original sticker sheet. All textures were created using a mixture of Blender (via texture painting) and Adobe Photoshop (for final layouts). Placement of the decals are based on the original instruction sheet provided with the original toy. Placement is also approximate and are not meant to be in exact relation to the actual A-10C aircraft and it's functions - ie. a "warning" decal or an "airpad lift" decal is placed where the toy's decal sheet wants it and not where it SHOULD go on the actual aircraft. TLDR = the decals are like the toy (non-sense), and not for the actual aiurcraft (where it would make sense). Sorry, I just feel I need to clarify that :)
I couldn't decide on a good color/shade of blue for aircraft. Darker tints/hues of blue would wash out details on Deimos' texture overlays, no matter what tweaking I did in Photoshop and I wasn't happy with it. I wanted to maintain their artwork so what I went with is a happy medium.
KNOWN ISSUES
* There is a small patch of "metal" showing on the right-side engine. All of my textures are overlaid in the blue color that I chose so I don't think it's something that I missed. Upon some investigation, this is something the plane author (Deimos) would need to fix -- a mesh seperate from the paintkit is clipping out of the aircraft's frame mesh.
* If you notice I left out the VTOL decals (from the original toy) and this is intentional. I decided (for now) that since the A-10 is not a VTOL aircraft, and eventhough all the other decals are mostly fictional (and/or in fictional locations), adding the VTOL decals would be most unnecessary. I might change my mind at some point and just do it OR I can just add a second version of the livery where the VTOL decals are included. Why not appease all, yes?
Team GI Joe? I'm a dork so...I also created a GI Joe Skystriker livery for DC Designs' F-14 A/B Tomcat - link here.