Ju88A

[Clint Mitchell]

Yep mate a big, big bucket of weathring, cheers for your help.

Warm regards

Clint

[Clint Mitchell]

Made a start on the panels. Lot more work on these to do yet. But they are all there highlighted and shaded just got to weather them really.


Comments?

Cheers

Clint

[Aircraftprofiles]

looks great ! No other comments !

[Aircraftprofiles]

Having looked at your profile again, i came up with a suggestion, which you can use or not. try adding a stronger highlight where the lighter edge of the panel lines meets the highlight on the fuselage.

Blowhard has done that on the Zero, in the "I´m at it again" Tread. (I hope it´s a zero, otherwise i have exposed my ignorance on this matter). I also tried to do it on the Corsair i made a few month back, but I think Blowhards texturing is very good.

I look forward to see what you´ll do with the glass bits, and i also look forward to the weathering. I came up with a way to make the paint look sun bleached...I used it on teh SEA Thud i just made, let me know if you are interested in know how i got about it.

Thanks for sharing your great work !

[Clint Mitchell]

Good idea! Yes Blowhard's Zero is special to say the least. What's your sun bleached technique then dude I'm interested.

Cheers

Clint

[Aircraftprofiles]

It´s pretty simple in fact, but i think it works good (for the SEA scheme at least).

Here´s how i did it:

1. I selected the panel lines and expanded the selection by 20-30 pixels. Then inversed the selection and added about 15 pixels of feather. Last but not least i deselected the area that was outside the aircrafts

2. So now there should be a area inside each panel that´s selected.

3. I made a new layer and panted the selected areas that was on the top half of the aircraft bright white, using the brush tool


4. The layer was duplicated so i had two identical white layers.

5. I changed the first layer properties to "overlay" and changed its opacity to about 30 %. The second layer i changed to "hard light" And set the opacity to about 20 %

and here´s the result:



Hope you can use this explanation in the making of your greta profile artwork !

[Clint Mitchell]

Thank's dude! I will look into this technique ad see what I can come up with.

Thanks again

Clint

[Clint Mitchell]

Weathering Got my work cut out.

The layers are getting crazy! I think I'm going to have to flatten a version of this off to do the weathering. I'm pushing it already with my machine. 66 layers at 9700 pixels wide. I'm proud of my old Mac.

Clint

[Aircraftprofiles]

I know ! The Thud is about 100 layers. I have devided the layers into folders. That helps to keep track of the layers

[Clint Mitchell]

Mine are in Sub Folders already. Just my Mac is making worrying noises. The kind of tell tale noises where an imminent crash is expected when I save next.

Clint