Aircraft Profile Painting

GrubbyFingers · #1 30th June 2009, 11:24

I'm returning to my favorite subject again now and doing some more Bell 205s and UH-1s for an upcoming magazine article.

First up is a set of rubber floats for over-water work.

Here's the first stage:

GiantFlyingRobots · #2 30th June 2009, 11:50

Where's it gonna be published? I'll keep an eye out.

It looks...um grubby.

GrubbyFingers · #3 30th June 2009, 13:00

ModelArt.

Grubby is as Grubby does!

GrubbyFingers · #4 1st July 2009, 15:05

... and this how they look when you strap 'em on ...

Supah · #5 1st July 2009, 15:39

I think the shadows could be stronger as well as the top fall off darkening, right now it looks a bit flat. but MAN are those things huge! Do they have a big impact on performance?

Ugo Crisponi · #6 1st July 2009, 22:27

Huge!! :-)

GrubbyFingers · #7 2nd July 2009, 01:45

Thanks for your comments. I did have the shading stronger, but it was looking very much like aluminium rather than white rubber. I'll have a play.

I don't know how they affected performance, but I can't imagine they helped much! I know they were only running a few kms out to sea with them, so it's not like they were doing North Sea platform runs. A few of the platforms you can actually see from shore.