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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 17, 2006, 11:37:13 AM »

Triming is the step where will be precisely determinated covering area of the color. First to be trimed will be yellow color. For a while make this color layer invisible. Now all the panel could be seen and corect path could be made. yellow is applyed on the engine covling and on the fuselage up to the windscreen. On the rear side only vertical rudder is covered with yellow. Take a pen tool, shortcut i P on the keyboard, and make a path. When you make a path then you right click and from drop down menu choose "Mkae selection". In the new selection dialog box click on "Substract from Selection" and result will be cliped basic selection we had.

Now have to inverse selection as well treated are is out of the basic selection and this could be done by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I . Now take eraser, shortcut E, and erase area of excede yellow color. This is a secunde job and then deselect your image by clicking Ctrl-D. New selection have to be made to clear wing. Make selection on the wing shape. Get back all layers visible and then trip it all of them on the wing.

Color profile now had it's shape.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 17, 2006, 11:19:29 AM »

Plane had now it's basic camouflage pattern in rough form. This sample had in the time of the operation special washable pale yellow areas on the nose and vertical rudder. So new layer is created for this and name is Yellow. Selection is still keep in place. To help our view for a short time make Mid grey and dark grey layers invisible. Simly click on the eye icon in the layer field and this layer is here but invisible. So take color and airbrush and ready for the special area markings.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 16, 2006, 11:38:33 PM »

And at least third camouflage color to be added- RLM 74. Create new color and name it Dark grey [or how do you like]. Select new color and spray on the top surface whre this color have to be. Note that selection is allway placed in the active layer you have create. This selection still have to be there.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 16, 2006, 11:28:23 PM »

On the layer panel change Opacity of the blue layer and put it on some 90%. This will help ypu to see panel on the background drawing and this will help you to precise apply next color. And the next color on this color profile is RLM 75. Make a new layer and name it ... Mid grey. Layer will apeared in the layer panel in the top. Choose from the color picker correct  color and start with coloring. Use enlargement to close up details. See the details of painting of the spots on the vertical tail. Shortcut for enlarging and minimizing of the image is Ctrl-+ or Ctrl--

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 16, 2006, 11:01:09 PM »

Take a airbrush in your hand... in your mouse and place the first color layer. Airbrush could be taken from shortcut Alt-Shift-P and be sure that it is in normal mode, Opacity 100% and Flow 100%. You can use also Paintbucket tool but better to use airbrush and train your hand skill.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 16, 2006, 07:53:59 AM »

Now we are on the next important step in this guide- choosing of color. This could be done by very simple metod- click on the color square on the lower part of the tool menu on the left side and picker color window will appear. Yuo can take a sample color by direct picking in the field but most precise way is ifyou have an info of the color and it's RGB value. Input this value in the field shaded in light blue. You can see RGB alue I have put for the German RLM 76 color. Note also in the right uper corner that we have not new layer for blue color and it is noted by blue color which mean that this is active layer.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: January 14, 2006, 09:05:34 PM »

Now we come on the imortant point of the work- layer creation. Work with layer's are of the basic importance. New layer is simple to add, just press ctrl shift N and layer window will appeared on the screen. First give the name of the layer, in this sample "Blue" and leave all of the rest details as they are. Press OK and you have created first layer in which you will apply first base coat of the illustration, RLM76 color. You will note that selection stay on the same position but now is in the new active layer named "Blue".

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Warplane Art / Illustration basic technique

« on: January 13, 2006, 11:12:10 PM »

Let's begin with the color profile. First at all i have to note that could not do this if you are not common with the picture editor control. In this way this is the Adobe Photoshop, version CS2, by my personal opinion the best software for the picture editing.

Our target will be to produce color profile of the Messerschmitt Bf109E flown by Kurt Wolf from the JG52. What we need is the basic technical drawing and the photo of the subject. Drawings I have scan from the "Model Art" special edition Bf109E. Scan have to be 300 dpi and as larger as possible- I use A3 size in landscape orientation. Format is TIFF. I do not use PSD as well it is much large and there is no need for this. Photoshop memory many of data including of your actions and this give larger file. In this reason I use TIFF form and click on field LZW for the compression. This will extra reduce size of the image but this will still be capable for the high quality professional print.

Drawings must to be clean in the outline and the area out of the basic shape and this need some time to prepare before the start of the initial work. Prepared drawing then select. You can do this with regular selection tools but also with pen which is most precision and versatile tool in CS2. Fastest way to select is to choose Magic Wand tool and to click in the area out of the plane shape. All outer area will be then selected. You should then press Ctrl shift i and selection will be inverted and the airplane body will be selected. Around the plane body will be noted selection which is called "marching ants". See it on the picture number 1.

Note- best way is Pen tool for selection and you have tips explained here http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=253.msg10751#msg10751

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Warplane Art / Re: Hellcat color profile

« on: January 11, 2006, 11:59:20 PM »

Ovo  sve ce biti posebno obradjeno. Meni nije cilj da ucim ljude Fotosopu vec da one koji ga vec donekle znaju uputim sta dalje. Ima prilicno slojeva, a format u kojem se radi je TIFF sa LZW kompresijom. Postoje dodaci za Fotosop ali i osnovni je sasvim dovoljan. Sto se tice samih boja cuvanje u formatu TIFF resava sve dok JPG moze ali u malo visem kvalitetu... ali ne preporucujem.

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Warplane Art / Re: Hellcat color profile

« on: January 08, 2006, 06:49:28 PM »

Ja sve to radim u Adobe Fotosopu CS2 i mislim da nema boljeg programa od njega. A tehnike... ima tu puno da se prica i konacno cu morati da sednem i da odradim nekoliko kratkih uputstava kako se sta radi da se dobije ovakav profil.

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Combat Warplanes / C-130- velika fotka 1,6 MB

« on: January 06, 2006, 10:31:48 PM »

C-130 Herkules vozi po pisti u bazi Jokota u Japanu. Snimak uradjen danas 6. januara 2006 i predstavlja avione iz 36 Erlift Skvedron koji ima takticki raspored dejstava u oblasti Pacifika.



Photo by: MSGT VAL GEMPIS,
Record ID No. (VIRIN): 060106-F-1740G-004

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Combat Warplanes / F-102 za muzej/ Museums F-102

« on: January 06, 2006, 08:26:18 AM »

Snimak je uradjen 10 novembra prosle godine i predstavlja lovacki avion F-102 potpuno sredjen od strane osoblja 62. eskadrile za odrzavanje americkog vazduhoplovstva u bazi Mek Cord. Namena je da letelica bude izlozena u muzeju u istoimenoj bazi. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kevin J. Tosh Jr.)


10/11/05 - An F102 Fighter Jet sits inside Hangar 6 almost completely restored, by U.S. Air Force personnel of the 62nd Maintenance Squadron, McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Wash., Oct. 11, 2005. The F102 once fully restored will be displayed at the McChord AFB Flight Museum. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kevin J. Tosh Jr.)

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Market / new Yugoslav kit for sale

« on: January 05, 2006, 08:40:36 PM »

1/72 scale kit from Italeri Models which was molded in Italy in 1995:
Italeri # 049 Messerschmitt Bf-110C-3 "Zerstorer"
This kit is in new mint sealed box condition, with minor crimping to the box from the shrink wrap. This kit is now out of production, and very hard to find! Comes with the option to do 2 German aircraft. However I will also be adding to this auction a decal selection from the Lift Here sheet Q-72LH to model a Yugoslavian aircraft that was captured in 1941, but was never (at least not known at this time) utilized during the April 1941 invasion. Direct buy at link bellow...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6012756369&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

1/72 scale kit and decal collection for auction:
Airfix # 02067 Hawker Hurricane Mark I Lift Here partial selection from F-72LH Royal Yugoslav Air Force Sheet # 2 This kit is in new mint sealed condition. Also included with this fine kit is a decal selection from a very rare JKRV Set # 2 from the Lift Here Decal producer. These were originally produced in 2003, and were limited to 300 pieces being manufactured. Plus as an added bonus I am including a color full profile and a decal placement guide for the Yugoslav Zmaj built Hurricane as it appeared in 1941. Dirct buy at link bellow...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6012262729&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

1/72 scale bomber kit and decal selection for auction:
Airfix Savoia-Marchetti Sm.79 Sparviero Lift Here decal selection for #13 of Royal Yugoslavian Air Force. The Airfix kit is in open box condition with some signs of minimal shelf wear, and the contents are still sealed in their original bag.
This selection comes with an additional decal selection from Lift Here decals made in Serbia in 2005 for aircraft # 13. Direct link...

http://cm.ebay.com/cm/ck/1065-29296-2357-0?uid=61111338&site=0&ver=LCA080805&item=6018537426&lk=URL

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Forums Works / Re: Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

« on: January 05, 2006, 08:00:30 AM »

Boistinu se rodi!!! Al si brz!

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Warplane Art / Kabina IK-2 / IK-2 cockpit

« on: December 27, 2005, 07:33:14 PM »

Ovo je moj prvai rad ove vrste i otpilike je 70 % zavrsen.

This is my first work of this type and it is finished some 70 % .