Dassault Falcon 900

[gamary]

Hi guys,

Finished a project I'd started nearly a year ago; the Falcon 900.


Civilian OE-ISM


France's ETEC 00.065 "Villacoublay" operates Falcon 900 n°4. This is the new livery (late 2012), which looks much nicer than the previous one IMHO.

I still find white aircraft tricky to do, but I was satisfied with the printed result. I'll be doing at least another one from the French AF, and maybe a few other ones (Italian and Spanish AF for example).

[Maciej N]

It's very very difficult to make "clean" white aircraft. You have made it very good! Bravo!

[gamary]

Thanks, Maciej.

I think the trick is using very light grey and playing with the highlight and shadow layers a lot until the desired result is achieved. I'm sure if I were to do one which is dark, I'd have to redo the shading quite a bit.

[GrubbyFingers]

Very nice, Gaëtan.

It looks like you've captured the complex, subtle shape around the top engine very well.

You're right about white, I use a mix of about 5% everything, so it doesn't tend to grey too much when I shade.

Grubby.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Nice clean (in a good way) work.

Thankfully there aren't a lot of aircraft that hold my interest that are pure white, so the vagaries of working with that colour don't apply to me.

[inkworm]

I still find white aircraft tricky to do, but I was satisfied with the printed result.

It's the wrong shade of white

Actually looks great and agree not the easiest of colours to do.