Nils

Nice!

Two norwegian Thunderjet’s in a taking off scene. Our relaive small airforce were neatly flooded with over 200 of these jets in rhe early 50’s, the largest one time purchase our airforce have ever done. All these new planes called for an urgent need of more pilots. A lot of new unexperienced pilots, just kids really, got to fly them. This in turn cause a lot of mishaps and accidents. These two jets here collided in mid air in january 1956. During a ‘break away’ drill, MU-S managed to stick his wing tank up the tailpipe of MU-R. The pilot of the latter managed to eject the other sadly, didnt and wa killed. All modelled and rendered in Modo with some touch up paint work in photoshop afterwards..

Something I learned in my younger days and still use to check a drawing is to mirror it for any errors. It sticks out instantly in a mirrored image.

Now rhat’s a lovely piece of art. Truly well composed and beautifully painted.

Thanks a lot guys gld you like it. The Skyraider ha always impressed me too. Both it’s looks but even more it’s performance and versatility

One of my more recent work, the immaculate Skyraider. Here seen in the colours of VA-176. Modelled in Modo with very little Photoshop post render work needed on this one, more or less just changed the contrast and added a tiny bit of grainy 'noise' to the image.

Awesome F-14! I really like the detailwork

The Neptune family vas been a favorite of mine for a long time, with it’s exiting career and so many very fifferent types.. It was begging to be modelled. As a 3D modeller I’ve built several types of it and done quite a few scenes’ with it. Also it’s competitor, Martin Mercator has had my attention since I discovered it some time back, with an even more exiting but shorter life, it too has inspired me with it’s sleek and elegant lines.. I’ll post some shots of them, some day later ..

Fantastic, all that´s missing is a nice wreck to recover. Great looking, weathered finish.

Massive, and yet so small.. how do you manage to get it all in there.. Reminds me, german guy I used to know, changed to the dark side and moved to LA as a VFX artist in the movie industry. He made a fantastic DDR Volksarmee Hind 3D Hind model, not sure if he ever completed it but here´s a gallery I found with images of if it: http://www.andrecantarel.com/personal-work/

As proposed, here's wires (screen shot from Modo) and the original colour version (which I didn't like), and a closeup of the background..

Dam, I haven’t visited this thread before but I honestly believed it was a real wreck, until I studied the images more closely. Remarkably well done. It truly looks burnt out.

hehe I can post the wire mesh of the scene, if you like?

Thanks for kind words Keith. There is not many public photos of today that haven’t been tampered with, in one way or another. Even winners of professional photo competitions has been discovered for cheating.

Another seabird leaving the surcface. This time I've been toying around a little in Photoshop with my Blohm+Voss 138C model. I got inspired by a photo I recently saw, and wanted my image to look as an old photo from that time. These 3 engined flying sabots were a pretty common sight up here during WW2 together with the He-115's, but this one here is from more southern waters.. I imagined France somehow, or perhaps Germany

Thanks a lot chaps glad you liked this rather rare sea bird. There weren't too many around, only 6 built, which of none survived WW2. This plane was the V1 (prototype 1) and later rebuilt to suit Luftwaffe standards, to armament and accomodation. With a range of 9000km, the V2 Seefalke flew non stop from Germany to Chile with medical equipment, after the big earthquake there in february 1939. The trip got a lot of attention and PR, surely a great PR stunt for german tecnology at the time.

While I’ll keep the Me-110 in the waiting box for a while and deciding it’s faith, I went back to another of my unfinished projects and trying to make something of my Dornier Do-26 Seeadler model. One of the two last Dornier 26 «Mōwe», which were sunk in the Narvik area, april 1940. It’s wreck still lies on the seabed up there. This model is several years old, the first I did in Modo, since then I’ve come back to it many times, fixing it here and there. I see I would have done it very differently if I’ve done it again today. This is how it looks now, taxiing on water just after landing. This must be the summer of ‘39 as it was sunk in the spring and the light indicates summer sun.

I’m throwing myself on the train of impressed spectators. Amazing work and creativity, absolutely top notch! If possible you should have left the upper ball half transparent . I’ve you’ve ever seen a Star Wars movie, you’ll quickly spot how the Martin ball turret inspired the tie fighters, also on Harrison Ford’s spaceship you spot elements from B-17’s Not to forget the troopers running around waving with white painted MG42’s, in a galaxy far away...... hehe

@ Keefr22 > even with the brightness turned up full on my monitor I can barely see it ... that was the general idea behind the night fighters I think but I've lightened up the image for you, (without the moon - honestly I doubt moonlight would have mattered much anyway...) But as said, check the original on the bottom of page one, now, if it's any better? (and I've also also the missing Schräge Musik guns back there now. Also now the rear gunner/radar operator, is busy checking his instruments, facing forward here, which must be more realistic in this situation I would think..)

The first scetchup of a new scene for the G-4. Although another dark image (nights often are) it's always a little bit of a problem to balance realism and presentation of the model in a proper way for the spectators. I chosed to darken the image after it was finished rendered, try to indrease the realisming. The idea is that the Lancaster passes over a opening in the dense smoke cloud cover, revealing it in a glimpse for the waiting predator. (does anyone have an idea how much exhaust flames would be visible therough the flame dampers? if anything at all??)

So, I think I say most of the modelling of the G-4 type, is done for now. Next will be to try to find a proper scene for it. I've added a new nose shape and new tailfins/rudder, plus added even more extra bits.

Gorby thanks, perhaps you'll need to up your monitor a little, it's fine here in my end. Of course, when lit up by background fires, it's not much light but it's also my intention. It's a night scene. Yes I made the background too, a pretty quick Photoshop scetch really..

Falke Eins that’s exactly that area I’m not satisfied with and the easiest to fix. I have the old F.nose available so I just rework it from there

Current status of the texturing work, I'm also still keep adding small bits and pieces. It must have a been an aerodynamic nightmare with all the external addition to the original Me-110 design, but that aside very few could compare to it, when it comes to a beastly looking appearance. A little test image of the G-4 in it's right enviroment. The background is just a temporary night sky fire scene..

I started applying the first basic coat of paint. But I'm planning to do a G-4/R-3 of Stab III./NJG1, the plane of Major Martin Drewes, summer of 1944. Here's current status..