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Re: That Golden Age
The bright appearance is deliberate, actually. I admit it looks odd, perhaps, but I have more than one photograph of this very aircraft in flight. The very smooth laminate surface combined with the silver dope treatment resulted in a very considerable amount of reflected light and glare. The doors, for example, are not visible in any of these images.
I am not certain about the amount of shading to apply to the undersurfaces, to be honest. I was rather going for a more 'reflective' approach here, as seen in one of the photos. It would all depend of course of the scene's lighting, so this will require further study.
The shape was the result of studying photographs and drawing the beast from scratch via analysis, as I have had to do with many of the machines in this project. I would be delighted if some manufacturer's drawings turn up, but at the moment I've not seen any. The current crop of line drawings to be found, however, did not impress me and I do not find them convincing.
Lastly, as the aircraft is neither built of, nor skinned with, metal or metal sheet (ok, except the cowlings), why should I work on a "metal surface" effect? I do not understand that...?
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