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Warplane Art / Re: Halifax MkBIII

« on: December 22, 2010, 02:58:25 PM »

Amazing work mate!!!!

Thanks No.1! This one only took 5 months, my first profile took me 2 years! I hope that the next profile I do will take even less time. But I have a lot of different variants to do on the Halifax still before I start on a Lancaster.

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Warplane Art / Re: Halifax MkBIII

« on: December 22, 2010, 03:07:18 AM »

Okay guys, here is the first one, I have aa few small mods left to do but close enough. Halifax LW170 from 424 RCAF Squadron, this plane survived the war and was transferred to 518 RAF Meteorolgical squadron. It ditched in the Irish Sea after the running out of fuel du to bad leak. I belong to a group trying to locate, raise her and restore her. The photo is of her right before she sank...

Please let me know what you think, and thanks for all the help and support on this project.

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Warplane Art / Re: D.H. 108

« on: November 26, 2010, 06:50:17 PM »

Here we are- first time that my classic painting is published in any printed publication  MAM, December 2010 issue as part of Nico Braas article 

Outstanding achievement No.1!!!!!!

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Warplane Art / Re: Fairey Firefly

« on: November 17, 2010, 04:58:07 PM »

Wonderful images What grey color is on the underside?

It appears to me that it is the same color as what is on the side of the fuselage, not certain on
that however.

Here are some more images...

http://www.warplane.com/pages/aircraft_firefly_photos.html

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Warplane Art / Re: Halifax MkBIII

« on: November 17, 2010, 03:42:38 PM »

This is great work mate!! About curtain- use it or not depend on publisher (for example some don't want pilots, moving propellers, extended landing gears...)

Wonderful

Thanks No.1 and Sall, I have the curtains on a layer so I can tunr them on/off as needed. In some cases the ground crews painted  over the windows as well so I'll create that option as well. I'm looking forward to finishing this one up and getting to the personalization stage.

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Warplane Art / Re: Fairey Firefly

« on: November 17, 2010, 03:39:15 PM »

I love it, a cool plane to do as well!

Here's some pics of the one near where I live. I've seen it fly before as well....

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Warplane Art / Re: Halifax MkBIII

« on: November 16, 2010, 05:30:29 PM »

Some more progress. I had virtually no time to work on the profile in October, gun turrets are finished. Next up are the propellers then I can start applying markings weathering etc...

Guys, I have put the curtains in on the two windows below the cockpit, the Navigator and Wireless operator used them to hide the interior light. Please tell me what you think, I can't decide if I like them or not.

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Warplane Art / Re: Hump

« on: October 15, 2010, 12:34:09 AM »

Sally,

There is television show about the airline as well called ice pilots nwt, you can find info about it on Facebook.

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Warplane Art / Re: Hump

« on: October 14, 2010, 06:03:54 PM »

If you need more reference images of the c46 go to buffaloairways.com they still operate the type in the canadian arctic and there are many good photos on the site.

Great subject and nice work no.1!

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Forums Works / Re: Trio

« on: September 23, 2010, 08:18:50 PM »

Well done gentlemen!

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Warplane Art / Re: WIP Help

« on: September 04, 2010, 06:14:39 PM »

Jagged lines... maybe you have used in later work Magic Wand for selection and result was this teething lines. When select shape or object in layer, Press Ctrl and click on the square images on the left side of the layer bar in layers palette. This give you smooth and precise selection and will not leave jagged lines.

No.1, I was able to get around it by creating a new shape/shape layer, the curves came out smooth then.


I have no idea why, but it worked.

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Warplane Art / WIP Help

« on: September 03, 2010, 08:48:13 PM »

Hi Guys,

I am self taught in PS and I'm running into some ugly jagged lines when I create curves and I cannot seem to get around it.

So I guess my question is why or how is this happening? You will notice in the attached image that the perspex on the nose looks pretty smooth, I used fill path there, rather than stroke path - could that be it?

Any help is appreciated.

Also please disregard the horrendous looking carburetor ducts on the engines (the vents on top) - I have re-done them on a later version.

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Warplane Art / Re: Cessna L-19 Bird Dog

« on: September 03, 2010, 08:45:19 PM »

Not much info about the Air America samples. Do you have any? In the meantime I have complete cockpit...

I have a magazine from 1997 with an article on them, I will try to find it.

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Warplane Art / Re: Cessna L-19 Bird Dog

« on: September 02, 2010, 10:45:02 PM »

Very cool. Air America flew those in Laos as well as the USAF in Vietnam, I've always felt sorry for those guys.

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Warplane Art / Re: Kaman Seasprite

« on: August 29, 2010, 12:42:18 AM »

It looks great.

That is amazing The moving rotors and silhouette of the pilot make it uber realistic. This is the best chopper profile that I have ever seen. Your technique stands out among the rest.