OV-1 Mohawk

[Otterkins2]

Looking awesome Damian. Ready for paint. You need to fix the panel lines though which at the moment look pasted on. You need a highlight on one side of the line methinks. Excellent and unusual subject. Bastard! You beat me to it. I've been saving images for some time now with the intention of doing this one. Not much point to that now when geniuses like you glom onto it

[Vacajun]

Damian, Nice work!! Would like to suggest a modification to the shadow on the wing tank: IMHO the leading edge should not be so curved and the trailing edge of the shadow needs to extend closer to the fins.

Looking forward to the colors!

[Maciej N]

Well she's ready to paint Been a marathon 9 hour session today



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Very nice, very ... Your marathon was very good!

[Skyraider3D]

Fabulous subject! Such a funny looking and forgotten machine.

[d4m1an]

Hi All!!

Well on the last day of 2010 I've completed a profile :P

I'm strating out with a real world machine before moving off to the land of the fantastic. The title says it all about the machine in question:



I played with the high lights and shading some more as well as adding texture to the paint and shading the panel lines. What do you guys think??

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[gamary]

Not bad. Maybe make the OD a little lighter?

Does this drawing have a 1 day copyright span? Just kidding.

[Otterkins2]

You'r almost there Damian. Right now the wing and engine almost blend into the fuselage. I'd suggest a thin highlight on the wingtip and leading edge. The top of the engine nacelle needs a broad highlight and a thinner one along the bottom. That needs to be repeated on the fuselage as well. The vertical tail surface also needs a brighter highlight at the leading edge too. Just my opinion.

[d4m1an]

You'r almost there Damian. Right now the wing and engine almost blend into the fuselage. I'd suggest a thin highlight on the wingtip and leading edge. The top of the engine nacelle needs a broad highlight and a thinner one along the bottom. That needs to be repeated on the fuselage as well. The vertical tail surface also needs a brighter highlight at the leading edge too. Just my opinion.

I applied the paint and the high lights looked too bright hence the adjustment, seems I may have over adjusted

Been playing with it and while cleaning up the model stash came across a Mongram Skyraider in the "Tour of duty" boxing and thought "Hmmmmm..." I've based the colour demarcations more or less on the USAF C-7 Caribou and the markings off of the decals in the kit's box:



Seeing as the only operators of this maching was the US and Israel perpare for a few what-ifs before I move on (I've already got a request for some RAAF machines).

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[d4m1an]

Hi All!

Greg (GTX)on the what-if forums requested some Aussie OV-1s to see which scheme would look good on a possible future Roden purchase. He supplied some nice ref pics as well as gathered all the necissary colours I'd need for this little project

So on with the pics!

Group 1 Royal Australian Army OV-1s

Early GAF Nomad scheme:



Later warp around scheme (on all the pics I had it showed that the scheme didn't wrap around the wings):



Group 2 Royal Australian Air Force OV-1s

Caribou jungle shceme:



Caribou desert scheme:



PC-9 FAC scheme 1:



PC-9 FAC scheme 2:



I hope you enjoy this min GP (group paint) from me via Greg
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[Jarink]

The highlights are washing out the colors a bit. I'd suggest changing the layer mode for the highlighting. In GIMP, I normally set highlight layers to "Value" instead of "Normal" which preserves the color information. I'm not sure exactly what the mode is called in Photoshop.
Here's examples of what I mean:
Normal Mode
Value Mode
It would show best in the plain OD schemes, but it might help all of them.

I think the OD looks OK. It's an Army plane, so it used a different paint spec than USAF planes.
Those Aussie jobs are some interesting paint schemes!