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Warplane Art / Re: DH-Mosquito-B-MKIV-Series-2

« on: August 27, 2006, 12:15:58 AM »

... and how about to make one Mosquito from PRU unit in PRU Blue? MFG will be real happy to see it and maybe arrange it to be displayed on his web site?

Good night and take care about your wife

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Warplane Art / Re: DH-Mosquito-B-MKIV-Series-2

« on: August 26, 2006, 11:54:56 PM »

I suggest you to start on hard way- completenew one from begining. Will see that result will come faster then you can beleive. And in the meantime you will make your strategy how and what to do.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Chromate color on Navy planes

« on: August 26, 2006, 10:33:20 PM »

I will try to get a text written by Dana Bell. it is entry in the standard protection on the NAVAL planes from mid '30. But just a little time to get where I put document. It will be interesting for the modelers as well for the illustrators.

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Warplane Art / Re: DH-Mosquito-B-MKIV-Series-2

« on: August 26, 2006, 10:06:36 PM »

I have just release color profile of one US pre war fighter and have some spare time to play with your color profile. As you can note all black outline are gone now. Only dark line is the panel lines. On the many of details are add more light and shadows. Nose is transparent. I have note that you have used brush in the dissolve mode and then blur it and effect is good. Maybe to blur some more but it depend from surface to surface and plane to plane.

One important point when you are make color profile is that you have to watch on the image of the original plane. There you can see everything you need for work. Nothing more nothing less

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Warplane Art / Re: DH-Mosquito-B-MKIV-Series-2

« on: August 26, 2006, 09:17:09 PM »

Its look more live but problem stay with outline.

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Warplane Art / Re: DH-Mosquito-B-MKIV-Series-2

« on: August 26, 2006, 06:41:02 PM »

This is very good sample of the advanced color line art. Similar method is used by one illustrator from UK, can't

remember name in the moment. This is nice!!! And I like that colors are close to the real match. You have good

calibrated monitor as I can see

So in this method of camouflage color presenting you don't need to do any more. As you know this type of art

preserve all of the basic drawings outline and camouflage is apply with a minimun of the shades and highlight.

Identical as in the monochrome line art up to the '80 but in this way color is used.

Any way, you have a principal sense for the shape of object on the plane and can fight with the light direction.

From my point of view you can free go to the next step full color art. But I have to note that creating of the

basic layers in full color art need over a week per type of plane and need deep search. So when you start with

practice use some well nkown planes with a lot of images. Like this Mosquito.

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Warplane Art / Re: Messerschmitt BF109E4

« on: August 26, 2006, 06:30:06 PM »

Very well- if need additional directions about the use of the pen just ask

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Combat Warplanes / Chromate color on Navy planes

« on: August 26, 2006, 04:00:10 PM »

This very interesting photo present F3F  with chrome yellow propellers. Image is from Library if Congress Archive and it is rare image of this plane in color.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Convair XF-92A

« on: August 26, 2006, 03:40:32 PM »

Nice catch Nico- will look for more info!

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Warplane Art / Re: Messerschmitt BF109E4

« on: August 26, 2006, 02:28:39 PM »

Hey man- thats much better. By the way- have you seen the topic "Illustration basic technique"? You have there much more info about color profiles creating. Also one point- I have enlarge your color profile and note teeting shape of the color area. This mean that you have used magic wand for selection. Whenever you can use pen for making path and then convert into the selection. Most precise and most versatile tool!!!

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Warplane Art / Re: Messerschmitt BF109E4

« on: August 26, 2006, 09:42:36 AM »

Hi Santyno,

very nice material in your first post!!! Basic drawings are excellent done in vector and it look good as final color

profiles. But I am aware about the illumination you have arround the panels and the shapes on the profile. How

this happen and how you make selection during your work on profile? Also note that underwing cross is not

curved to fit the airfoil curvature.

In general I like this profiles but if you change all of this details it willl became master work... just details.

And here you are details about the weaknest point of many of illustrator- how to make curved object.

Object which have to be curved must be alone in layer. Then you hold on keyboard Ctrl and press T. This is

shortcut for transformation object. You will at once note square arround your object. Then you have to switch

into the warp mode and this will be done by press on the mesh icon in task bar in Photoshop CS2. Look at the

image attached. Then you will note that square arround the object is changed into the mesh. This is live object

now!! All you have to do is to click on the points or mesh line and to pull it until you get desirable shape.

Thats it

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Combat Warplanes / Re: RAF Jaguars

« on: August 22, 2006, 09:54:26 AM »

With no doubt this is art images!!! Interesting that this plane fought in many of bitter actions and have very minimal looses.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: RIAT Fairford 2006

« on: August 20, 2006, 05:01:25 PM »

I missed this show too but thank to Robert images are here

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Mi-24 HIND

« on: August 20, 2006, 04:59:34 PM »

Great!!!!

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Combat Warplanes / RIAT Fairford 2006

« on: August 20, 2006, 12:36:54 PM »

Our friend Robert provide a number of nice images from this air show. More will be published later on site.