Italian Sabre...

[santynus]

Hi all
after a lot of experiment about natural metal finish...
I made two italian f86 sabre...
comments and suggestion are welcome
cheers
Santino

[pkassak]

nice!!
although new planes are not my piece of cake [someone cak ask what really is in field of profiling art ] I would suggest to drop opacity of marking somewhat, that the metal reflections below can be visible...
It looks bit artificial...to me.

[Supah]

hehe pkassak if you call this a new plane what do you call a F-22?

Santynus: I think you need to work on more accurate and complex highlights and shading. Also I'd leave a bit more room near the bottom because now it looks like you clipped part of it off.

[AGNT_Matt]

perhaps he calls it a 'vision of the future'

[GrubbyFingers]

Hi Santo,

I think your metal sheen is coming along very nicely. Bear in mind that one of the characteristics of a reflective surface, like bare metal, is that the highlights are very bright. Think of a chrome bar and then dial it way back from there! On chrome there are very distinct areas of extreme highlights and extreme shadows, often with quite hard demarcation lines. On an aircraft this effect disappears more with wear and tear and exposure.

The short version? I'd bump up your highlights.

The cockpit and nose are looking great. Nice sheen on the black nose.

There is something going wrong around the horizontal stabiliser and fuselage join. I know the Sabre has a square corner on the fuselage top where the tail attaches. At the moment your fuselage appears to be bending down at the rear. Try reducing the shading on the rounded part of the fuselage there, or straightening it so it runs parallel with the centre line, rather than following the join between the tailplane mounting area and the fuselage.

Try deeper shadows under the tailplane too.

[santynus]

thank you for all yours comments and suggestions
now I will try to apply your suggestions for improving this profile...
cheers
Santino

[santynus]

Hi all
I just update the color profile...
I attach two images with different combination of color...

[pkassak]

hehe pkassak if you call this a new plane what do you call a F-22?

For me PLANE is only something with propeller, spinner, and valves in engine
Even do not like much Me 262 heh....but that is just matter of taste and love

[santynus]

Here's another one with standard NATO camouflage

[AGNT_Matt]

the NATO camo looks great lighting looks a treat too when married to that scheme.