First Profile Halifax

[Simcoe Warrior]

John,

I do appreciate your input and rest assured that I have learned a valuable lesson from this. I certainly intend to learn from it.

Matt

[Simcoe Warrior]

John,

I do appreciate your input, I have learned a valuable lesson which I will apply more dilligently in future projects.

Cheers!
Matt

[Aircraftprofiles]

for a first profile i think this is really good. I´m so familiar with this aircraft, that i can judge if the shape is right or not, but the textures are quite good.
However, i think you could break up the highlight a bit and thereby create a bumpy weathered surface.
One thing i noticed: The shades on the engines should fade and get increasingly blurry. This issue have been mentioned time and time again in this forum, so it´s a very common mistake...and luckly a easy fix !

Good job mate !

[JMSmith]

where are the two missing posts

[Serval]

Some trouble with a script that generates the URL. I've fixed it by altering the title of the topic.

[Simcoe Warrior]

for a first profile i think this is really good. I´m so familiar with this aircraft, that i can judge if the shape is right or not, but the textures are quite good.
However, i think you could break up the highlight a bit and thereby create a bumpy weathered surface.
One thing i noticed: The shades on the engines should fade and get increasingly blurry. This issue have been mentioned time and time again in this forum, so it´s a very common mistake...and luckly a easy fix !

Good job mate !

Thanks, that makes sense. What is the best way to break up the highlight? A texture?

[Aircraftprofiles]

I´m sure there´s a number of ways to do that. When i did 2d artwork, I usually made 3 or 4 highlight layers. Then it was simply a matter of breaking up those layers with the eraser tool. The bottom highlight layer which was the most fuzzy and the least-bright highlight layer, I usually broke up the most.
Try and play around with different eraser settings and see what works best for you.

I´m a afraid that´s the best advise i can give !

[Simcoe Warrior]

I´m sure there´s a number of ways to do that. When i did 2d artwork, I usually made 3 or 4 highlight layers. Then it was simply a matter of breaking up those layers with the eraser tool. The bottom highlight layer which was the most fuzzy and the least-bright highlight layer, I usually broke up the most.
Try and play around with different eraser settings and see what works best for you.

I´m a afraid that´s the best advise i can give !

That's great advice, I will definitely try it.

[Skyraider3D]

There are so many good-looking line drawings about that are miles out, it's not funny. I dare say at least 95% of "scale" drawings are utterly wrong. I have yet to find a draftsman who is flawless in his work (I suppose Rikyu Watanabe scores pretty high though, but I don't think he ever drew a Halifax sadly). In recent years there have been lots of aviation books coming from Eastern Europe, many with fantastic looking drawings in them - sometimes even full of dimensions and usually computer drawn and highly convincing looking. Yet when you start measuring them, and comparing them to the real thing, they so horribly fall apart it's tragic.

So Simcoe's drawing not matching any scale drawnigs is no cause for alarm. He might even be the first one to get it right, who knows. What's sure is that so far the profile is looking pretty good. The only crit I have is the gaping holes on the spinners. In my humble opinion they really need propeller blades, or alternatively be glossed over (as if in motion), for a more pleasing look.

[JMSmith]

as i pointed out ronnie,

i don't spend weeks proving a point any more, i just offer advice, if it's taken all well and good if not, it don't matter, but at least other people looking will see that maybe the profile is not 100% perfect.
and i have said many times, always check drawings with as many photos as you can, or in this case just the aircrafts measurements