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Still working on the Spitfire, adding details here and there.

My 3D modeling suffers from the same problem as my plastic modeling, my inability to finish one project before starting another. In that spirit, here is the Spitfire Mk.IX I started on in Blender last month. Mostly done in the hour or two I have once the kids have gone to bed and before I nod of myself. My end goal is to do some post war RNLAF machines, perhaps some Italian aircraft and then what ever catches my attention.

Still working away on the Fouga though not making as much visual progress as I'd like. I am very much a beginner in blender so it's as much experimentation as actual progress. Loads and loads of small details and improvements to the model though. I decided on doing an Irish Air Corps machine first.

Got some more work done on my Fouga during the holidays. I modelled and textured a SNEB rocket and worked on the tail area of the Magister a bit. My main problem now is that I have very few images of the six shot matra F2 launcher that was used a lot on the Magister.

In the last few months I have been trying to teach myself to make proper 3D models in Blender. The learning curve is steep and at times I have just barely held on. But it is getting somewhere. Hopefully you will recognize a Fouga Magister from my model. I am currently working on the tail and the main detail bits around the airframe and in the cockpit.

Hello John, Thank you! ProCreate is great in that it allows you to paint anywhere you are. If you are getting the resuls you want in oils then I bet it is a very satisfying medium to work in. I have seen Mr. Ferris’s work, it is very impressive!

Thank you Keith! It was a bit of an experiment but one that seems to have paid off.

A Luftwaffe F-104F Starfighter with a student pilot practicing some instrument flying under the hood in the rear seat. Drawn in Procreate on a iPad with an Apple Pencil.

I recently finished another drawing of a aircraft that visited our local airbase, Leeuwarden. This time a J-34 Hunter from the Swedish Airforce that visited our airbase on a delivery flight from Dunsfold. In the early 1950’s the Swedish Air Force was equipping itself with the J-29 “Tunnan” and was developing a successor for the barrel shaped fighter in the form of the J-35 Draken. While the Tunnan was a decent fighter it did not have the climb performance to be a good interceptor. With Draken still many years away a choice was made to buy a interim fighter that could serve as in the role of intercepting enemy bombers. After an evaluation of available aircraft like the Hunter, Swift and Mystere a choice was made to purchase aircraft to equip two wings with the Hawker Hunter. One hundred and twenty aircraft were acquired in a configuration similar to the Mk. 4 aircraft that was designated the Mk 50. The Swedish Air Force would call it the J-34. While aircraft 34001 to 34024 were built at the Hawker factory in Kingston the rest were to be built in the factory in Dunsfold. These latter aircraft would all visit Leeuwarden during their delivery flights. Starting in Juli of 1956 batches of four to five aircraft visited Leeuwarden for a fuel stop. The exact configuration of the aircraft during these visits is unknown as no photographs exist, so the fuel tank under the wing in the drawing is largely speculative.

Sometimes yes, mainly to get the basic shapes and proportions right. Then it is a matter of correcting for different variants or configurations. Most photo's do not show the panel lines clearly so you have to draw them from reference books and images. Same thing for parts that are obscured by pylons and landing gear that you do not want on your drawing. In this case I also used a Blender 3D model I made for the missile and pylon. I posed them in the right angle and drew them from that.

A drawing I did of a CF-188 in it’s early days of service. The aircraft visited our local airbase quite often for gunnery camps in the mid eighties and that is how I depicted it.

Thank you Pete!

Another Procreate drawing of a Hawker Hunter T7 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. I’ve drawn it as it would have appeared in 1962 when it visited our local airbase.

I have been trying seriously for six months now, I watched many of the tutorials you mentioned above. I also bought the book by Witrold Jaworski called "Digital Airplane" which goes into a lot of detail, sometimes a bit too much for my attention span I have found Mark Alloways youtube tutorials helpful as well. Part of my problem is getting distracted from modeling by doing cool procedural materials and adding textures which I should really do once I finish modeling.

Thank you Pete!