I'm back...With a Vengeance.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

that looks great ! It´s truely amazing...especially the texture of teh fuselage is great !
I have two suggestions:

1. Where the fuselage and the trailing edge of the wing merge, soesn´t look completly convincing in my eyes. I have been trying to figure out what it is, and my conclusion is that the highlight may be too consistent in order to look like a concave surface. Maybe try to increase the highlight strength at the bottom of the currently highlighted area.

2. In my eyes the shade should be darker on the front part of the fuselage.

Very nice profile !

The trailing edge has had a rudimentary treatment at best, thus far, still aways to go before its convincing. Stay tuned!

Looks very convincing indeed! Great texture and the paint splatter along the lower colour demarkation line of the cowl is a very nice surprise. Normaly I hate pilot figures in a profile, but with the canopy slid open like that it's just screaming for crew members eagerly scanning the waters below for signs of an enemy target. Just a thot. Awesome werk dude!!!

Yer... I've had the same feeling ever since I decided to illustrate it with the canopies open. I've never attempted to draw crew before, should make for an interesting challenge.

[Goodwood]

You could always cheat by cutting in a photo of a pilot/gunner or a model figure thereof...

[JMSmith]

here ya go,

you have probably seen these already but they are to good to leave alone

[mjag]

Wonderful job you have done so far GFR..

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Interesting photos esp the 2nd, the 1st image is the one that sparked my interest in the Dauntless, in the first place.

Here's a little up-date. Twin .30 calibers, probably a little more detail than required, but you guys know how it goes...

[GrubbyFingers]

oooooh, that's lovely! That glass looks just right, GFR. Nice one!

[WrFlyer]

Holy cow! Extremely detailed as with all your profiles!

[BLOWHARD]

Nice 30 cal!

Did you see all those raised rivets in those photos?

[Baron]

just crazy!

great detail!!!!!!

[Logan Hartke]

GFR, this request may sound a little odd, but I am currently doing a series of relatively low-quality profiles of a hypothetical dive bomber from my own Frankenstein's laboratory. They're totally unprofessional and just for the fun of trying out very different schemes and teaching myself new techniques. I've attached an example of one of these at a reduced size.



Anyway, I'm planning on doing a version with open cockpit and guns at the ready and was wondering if I used a modified, reduced size version of your beautiful twin .30 cal mount on my own humble creation.

If no, then I understand, but I didn't think it would hurt to ask.

Thanks very much,

Logan