AH! I posted a comment on the first page...or so I though
It's not here
I've done that before though, clicked the preview button and thought I had clicked the post button, POOF, my reply is gone!
Anyway, YES, it's coming along nicely
What I
thought I had commented on was the door, cockpit and glass. It looks like you've got the glass looking more solid, or at least you can see it. But as Supah points out (and what I thought I had pointed out
) is the cockpit and door.
Right now the cockpit receives the same amount of light as the door and appears to on the same level with it, there isn't any indication of space between them. Adding shadow in the cockpit area does the trick nicely-
Another thing that you could do is push the curvature of the door a little. Maybe play up some more light on the lower portion of the door so it lifts away from the fuselage even more while adding a more curved shadow at the lower edges?
No matter what, your plane is looking pretty hot now!
A historical accuracy note, I seem to remember reading that those canopy smashing bars on the door insides were really painted gloss black (or was it silver) on production planes and that somewhere along the way restorers had started paining them red. This might be wrong, and that red color CERTAINLY looks nice, but it might be a interesting detail if you're into hyper-accuracy. It worth looking into at least
)
