Spitfire MK XIV e WIP

[GiantFlyingRobots]

With shaking hands(jk) I submit an update on this profile. mostly the canopy/ windscreen, wing and scaling back some of the work on the fuselage.

I have made changes to the flap mechanism since this screen shot, to make them look less straight, as they appear here.

[Jesters-Ink]

Its looking really good m8.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Hope you guys aren't getting bored by these incremental updates, I'm in the home straight now (Just the tail plain and a few revisions/details to add) and my next image posted in this thread should be the completed profile.

[Supah]

Its looking good, fantastic surface texture! Mind sharing your technique? One small thing but I'd add a lot more shading to the far cockpit wall visible through the opened door

[GrubbyFingers]

Hi GFR,

That texturing is just fantastic. I love the detail and clarity of the undercarriage too.

Graeme.

[BLOWHARD]

AH! I posted a comment on the first page...or so I though It's not here I've done that before though, clicked the preview button and thought I had clicked the post button, POOF, my reply is gone!

Anyway, YES, it's coming along nicely What I thought I had commented on was the door, cockpit and glass. It looks like you've got the glass looking more solid, or at least you can see it. But as Supah points out (and what I thought I had pointed out ) is the cockpit and door.
Right now the cockpit receives the same amount of light as the door and appears to on the same level with it, there isn't any indication of space between them. Adding shadow in the cockpit area does the trick nicely-



Another thing that you could do is push the curvature of the door a little. Maybe play up some more light on the lower portion of the door so it lifts away from the fuselage even more while adding a more curved shadow at the lower edges?
No matter what, your plane is looking pretty hot now!

A historical accuracy note, I seem to remember reading that those canopy smashing bars on the door insides were really painted gloss black (or was it silver) on production planes and that somewhere along the way restorers had started paining them red. This might be wrong, and that red color CERTAINLY looks nice, but it might be a interesting detail if you're into hyper-accuracy. It worth looking into at least

[GiantFlyingRobots]

BLOWHARD, Thanks for the feedback, you are absolutely correct with the things you point out, but thats the nature of a WIP. these things are constantly evolving and are easily corrected.

I too am aware of the alterations that need to be made, and have addressed some of them in later versions, the interior shadows never looked completely ok to me either,the same goes for the curve on the door, although too much curve doesn't look right either, I will try and achieve a happy medium. The canopy is now much closer to how I intended now but could probably do with just a little more refinement.

You are right again re the smashbar, it has been pointed out to me a on another forum that they are most likely to have been painted silver, black or intereior green, red was used post war , thats what you get when you use colour images of modern restorations when researching these details, It will certainly be corrected sometime in the future, although I am unsure when that will be, as I have now put the XVI aside for now and started another project(s). (breaking my own golden rule)

Its funny the you use this image of Temora's XVI too show me the error of my ways, I used the same image to create it, I just chose to ignore the correct colour for the smash bar, even when it was staring me in the face, cos I preferred the look of the red bar.

Keep the feedback coming, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Whilst I am bringing a few zombie threads back to life (p-51B) I thought I would post an update on my nearly completed Spitfire.

[Jesters-Ink]

I love the overall feel you give to your drawings, they look used without being overdone.
I never realised how much the prop tilts down. Love the lighting too.
You have a style of your own, a bit like a trademark and I like it, great job.