Aircraft Profile Painting

Espenlaub · #11 30th September 2011, 20:12

hab auch noch etwas......

Gruß
Hans-Jürgen

DarkoB · #12 3rd October 2011, 20:41

Danke, Espenlaub.

Here I have another minor update:

Supah · #13 3rd October 2011, 20:52

Hey Darko

Here is something I put together on another forum a long time ago, I updated it recently because Vacajun found it. It might help you as it did the original poster

	Quote:
	I've put together something that I hope will help Milligraf. Basically it is a way to make the plane look more 3D. This is done in photoshop CS2 and using paths. I think it should work in other programs. First we make a path following the shape of the fuselage We make a selection of the path, fill it with black, contract the selection by about 5 pixels, feather the new selection by about 4 pixels and press delete and we get this. Then we mess with the opacity till we get something like this Makes it look a lot more 3D with very little extra effort !

This trick will work on all tubes and bumps, like the canon bulges on your Fang

DarkoB · #14 3rd October 2011, 21:05

	Quote: Originally Posted by Supah
	Hey Darko Here is something I put together on another forum a long time ago, I updated it recently because Vacajun found it. It might help you as it did the original poster This trick will work on all tubes and bumps, like the canon bulges on your Fang

Thanks Supah, interesting technique

I will try this ASAP, I hope it will turn out well

Supah · #15 3rd October 2011, 21:08

Well if the digital medium lends its self well to something it is experimentation

You can always delete the layers if you dont like the effect.

DarkoB · #16 3rd October 2011, 22:05

Made "select-contract-feather" magic on the bumps in front of the cockpit.

Looks great

. Now I need more bumps

Vacajun · #17 4th October 2011, 01:45

Supah (Boss Man), how about posting that shading technique in the Tutorials link? I'm sure newbiew would appreciate that.

Supah · #18 4th October 2011, 08:01

Well the base drawings of the Pilan aren't mine so I don't know if that is really ok

Perhaps I will do a simple tutorial out of the droptanks for the Pilatus.

Supah · #19 4th October 2011, 08:25

	Quote: Originally Posted by DarkoB
	Made "select-contract-feather" magic on the bumps in front of the cockpit. Looks great . Now I need more bumps

Why not try it out on the entire fuselage?

DarkoB · #20 4th October 2011, 13:26

	Quote: Originally Posted by Supah
	Why not try it out on the entire fuselage?

Thank you Supah for your advices, I am very happy with the result

Entire fuselage is now subtle shadowed. Also tried some glass work.
It is time to focus on an underwing surfaces. I need some time to study other people works and get some inspiration

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Aircraft Profile Painting

La-11 Fang