Permission to come aboard?

[GrubbyFingers]

Hi David, Thanks for your comments. Your work has a beautiful subtlety, I particularly like the Viscounts. Your personal profile could just about be interchanged with mine! How many years did we look at those profiles and long to do them ourselves? Like you, I have a niche, helicopters, as, again, fewer people are covering them and it is a genuine interest for me.
Grubby.

[Jesters-Ink]

Guns . . .Guns? only if they are real and my kids can play with them.

Jokes aside, your Chopper/s is/are very nice looking and the size thing doesn't matter as long as its over 16 and a half inches. And we are all a bit peed at not getting that one in first

Don't worry about Blowhard, he's getting old so he needs a lot of white space around his drawings to rest his eyes in.

Not one big happy family, its one fat happy family at our ages but we are happy

[BLOWHARD]

Nice details and close-ups Grubby!
1:10th? BIG! How about a 1:10 B-52? Do you work entirely in Illustrator or is some of the finish done in Photoshop?

I think Vacajun has a helicopter or two...where are you Vacajun?

And we are all a bit peed at not getting that one in first

What are you trying to say? It's not the size, it's what you do with it?
Or wasn't that "peed" thing supposed to be a pun? :P

Fat AND happy here too

[GrubbyFingers]

Fat, Happy and Balding!

I do my linework in Illustrator, as detailed and accurate as i can get it. I find this takes about 2/3 of the total time. I then import the paths into Photoshop and use them as layer clipping masks in the various layers to build up the paint and shading.

I break the Photoshop file into layer sets of major components as I go. I very seldom flatten anything until I am saving a completed version. Too many times I have had to redo work!

I could probably do a B-52 mainwheel at 1:10! I haven't actually done a profile at 1:10 yet, so we'll see how the file size goes. I am about to start my first attempt, so I will keep you all posted and get advice as I go.

Grubby.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Welcome aboard Grubby.

Melbourne boy eh? me too, although I spend most of my time in Pixeltown.

Nice work, post some more. Must get around to finishing my site and get it "live" one day soon.

This place is being over run with O strayans.

[GrubbyFingers]

Do sites ever actually get "finished"? I've been building mine for months and I have realised I have hardly been drawing! Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Finding this site has got me off my arse... actually, I suppose I have changed arses.... and I am now drawing again.

Watch this space.

[adlabs6]

Grubby Fingers... Welcome aboard!

You have posted some really super work. And on the subject of getting your pics to appear between the text, this link will get you the help you need:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru....html#post7617

[anadc4]

Thanks for the comments. Had in mind the profiles in the modelling pages of Air Enthusiast when I started out, something that would reproduce well at A4 or less. The purpose is the colour scheme, not the plane. Can't get my head around the amazingly detailed images such as your Bell.

I've said it before but it is like 1/72 or 1/144 scale plastic modelling out of the box compared with super detailing in 1/24 or 1/32 scale.

[GrubbyFingers]

Ah yes, Air Enthusiast. I well remember the series on Arab Air Forces with these beautiful Earth, Sand and Azure Hunters, Jaguars, Strikemasters and such. To think I sold a box full of those for a pittance 20+ years ago because I had discovered cars, or girls, or something. I could certainly use them now. (The Magazines).
I have started my first new project, I'll put progress reports in a new thread.
Graeme.

[Vacajun]

Grub,
Absolutely beautiful work! Thanks for posting it as well as your WIP thread. I'm not a copter nut, but was inspired by Kevin Costner in"The Guardian." I'm in Virginia and a stone's throw from Elizabeth City Air Station and the Jayhawks. I'm an infant at profiling and Blowhard, Gamray, and Supah have fed me baby meals to bring me along. You'll find this to be a tremendous site with great friends, helpful hints, and lots of humor(?).

By the way, I did a considerable amount of formal research via Elizabeth City on the font used by the Coast Guard on copters and aircraft when I discovered it is not Arial or Helvetica. It is
ZURICH BLK BT.

Keep up the good work-look forward to your WIP reports!!