WIP: Fouga CM.170 Magister

[gamary]

Hi fellas,

I know I should be finishing the T-6 first, but for the moment that bird is annoying me. Don't ask why. That's just the way it is. So I've started something else: the venerable Magister. I'm slowly giving up on the better-known birds: good profiles already exist for these, but getting a good profile of the CM.170 or of a "secondary" aircraft like it is nearly impossible.

I'm trying new techniques once again: I usually do the line drawing first then the colouring and then the shading. Here I've started like some of you guys do: just drawing the shape with nothing else.



The trouble is that I have relatively good photo walkarounds, but really lousy 3-view plans. I've never been good at making my own 3-views. So I've adapted the least bad one I had. If anybody sees some obvious mistake, please point it out. The underside of the engine housing still needs works, among other things.



For the rest, it's just a WIP. Anybody who says something like "you've got the instrument panel wrong" will get a special chore. Like explaining to Blowhard what rock band Churchill was not a part of. he seems a little confused about this stuff...

[anadc4]

Profile art is so much like plastic modelling. Some planes are the subject of countless of kits showing every possible variation in equipment and colour scheme in ever increasing detail. And then there are planes that are lucky to get the attention of a mainstream kit maker. I find these more obscure subjects very appealling and so it is with this Magister. Great work with the shading on what is an awkward shape to work with. And again you have picked a subject that has great colour potential. The Patrouille de France was not the only aerobatic team to use them and then you have the more serious camo schemes.

[Supah]

Great work with the shading on what is an awkward shape to work with.

Don't know about that, its nicely done but its not that hard a shape. It's mostly tubular, I think a SR-71 or another blended wing design would be harder to do.

[AGNT_Matt]

i hear that i'm currently starting a Boeing BWB its reducing me to tears just trying to get the thing done by tomorrow for a friends 21st.

[gamary]

what's a Boeing BWB?

[Supah]

Blended Wing-Body

[BLOWHARD]

I've been waiting for the colored paint!
BTW, I did find out Churchill was in Alexis Korner's band for a while before joining Gong but after a drug arrest they wouldn't let him back in the UK so he stayed in France

And Boeing, that sound like a piece fell off, !BOEING!

It does look very nice Gamary, sorry for not commenting sooner

[Supah]

I've been waiting for the colored paint!
BTW, I did find out Churchill was in Alexis Korner's band for a while before joining Gong but after a drug arrest they wouldn't let him back in the UK so he stayed in France

And Boeing, that sound like a piece fell off, !BOEING!

It does look very nice Gamary, sorry for not commenting sooner

Hmmm something tells me you were born in Wales. I hear you about finishing stuff Gamary but sometimes it can be good to have two or three simultanious projects, if you get fed up with one you can work on the other for a bit and come back later.

[gamary]

I hear you about finishing stuff Gamary but sometimes it can be good to have two or three simultanious projects, if you get fed up with one you can work on the other for a bit and come back later.

I agree with you. That is why I currently have the T-6, a LaGG-3 Series 28, a EMB-315 Tucano, an SE.535 Mistral, an EMB-121, a Gee Bee and a TBM.700 going on. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. lol

What I'm also thinking about is the fact that as my technique improves, drawings are longer and harder to do. I've progressed a bit on the Magister but I'm wondering if I'm going to do the riveting or not. It's never been particularly visible on the aircraft and it's even so discreet on some my photo references that I can't see them at all.

I probably will end up NOT doing it (the riveting). What do you think?

@Blowhard: glad to see you found out about the Prime Minister.

[Supah]

I'd do the ones that stand out