Popular Post CplPunishment Posted April 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) Nice sunny day for some photos... Airfix's 1/48 scale Hurricane Mk I Tropical... done as a machine from 73 Squadron, North Africa in 1942. Pretty much from the box, except resin wheels and exhausts, and PE seat belts. Markings are Montex masks and masking tape. Cheers, Paul. Edited April 30, 2022 by CplPunishment 85 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Wow, that looks great! The finish and weathering are excellent and the diorama sets it off beautifully - well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfa1983 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 That's just a colourised photo from North Africa in WWII right? Seriously, nice work. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) Very neat work and excellent photography. catching that harsh desert glare very well. One point regarding wear on the prop, and this was something I learned on here from pliots comments, @Work In Progress I think, that prop blades wear most on the back! To do with airflow, but the back will often scour back to bare from the tip, while the front is overall in good shape. It hard to see on photos, as it frequently look like the picture has just over exposed, or light reflectance. as the above are not really clear, and I know you work hard to get details right.. this is a Beaufighter, note the bare metal Beaufighter . by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr Here's one I could find, as I posted this before about Marina Corsairs on crushed coral strips, very abrasive, useful as it shows what I mean about the front vs back wear same plane front back, note the lower blade is still black at root, and bare metal at tip. again, the lower blade being in shadow clearly shows the remaining black I mention this as you could probably just spray some aluminium paint from behind if you wished... once you know about this, you can spot it very commonly on any metal propped plane that was been used in a abrasive dust strip. HTH Edited July 16, 2022 by Troy Smith spelling. 14 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low flyer Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Thats the most authentic looking Hurricane I've seen in a long time well done 👏 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CplPunishment Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 14 minutes ago, Troy Smith said: Very neat work and excellent photography. catching that harsh desert glare very well. One point regarding wear on the prop, and this was something I learned on here from pliots comments, @Work In Progress I think, that prop blades wear most on the back! To do with airflow, but the back will often scour back to bare from the tip, while the front is overall in good shape. It hard to see on photos, as it frequently look like the picture has just over exposed, or light reflectance. as the above are not really clear, and I know you work hard to get details right.. this is a Beaufighter, note the bare metal Beaufighter . by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr Here's one I could find, as I posted this before about Marina Corsairs on crushed coral trips, very abrasive, useful as it shows what I mean about the front vs back wear same plane front back, not the lower blade is still black at root, and bare metal at tip. again, the lower blade being in shadow clearly shows the remaining black I mention this as you could probably just spray some aluminium paint from behind if you wished... once you know about this, you can spot it very commonly on any metal propped plane that was been used in a abrasive dust strip. HTH Great photos - just the kind of thing I spend hours looking at. Yeah, good input. I hadn't noticed that excessive wear on the rear. It's quite apparent when one looks. Cheers Troy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Superbly convincing Hurricane! Even the toolbox fits in… @Troy Smith: Thank you for providing a collated reference to how prop 'wear' looks in RL! Kind regards, Joachim 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Excellent build and diorama. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 She's a beauty and excellent photo's... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Harmsworth Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Excellent model and excellent photography. Just had a look at the website in your signature and the method you use for taking pics is pretty much what I do (no wonder I like the images!) Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
François Escudé Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Splendid !! love the subject and the photo !!! just one thing if I may.... can't you post a warning when posting this kind of pictures ?? I had to clean off the sand on my keyboard after seeing ... 🤣 congrats !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 That is just stupendous mate! Your model and the photography are first rate, and the pics are very convincingly "real". I always take my model photos outdoors, with natural light, in a "natural" setting as well. Your work here could easily pass as vintage wartime photos! Also, kudos for your excellent website! That is so cool, and full of great stuff. Thanks for having it linked! 🍻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autle Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Very convincing model the way you've photographed it, absolutely brilliant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinChipmunkfan Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Excellent modelling and superb photography 😀 Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Not only a superb model but real quality photo presentation too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Superbly realistic build and presentation , brilliant work ! Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P9498 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Captures the environment of the desert wonderfully. Outstanding work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Fantastic build, dio` and photo`s, really nice work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Absolutely outstanding. I genuinely thought I was looking at a photo of the real thing at first. The light and scenery are perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Slowbuild Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 The model is great, the photos are sublime - the most realistic diorama shots I think I’ve ever seen! Take a bow! Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CplPunishment Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the nice comments and feedback everyone! I tried a couple of new things (for me) on this model. One of which was rubbing back through the paint layers... The model was painted with an aluminium colour on all the metal surfaces, and red dope on all the fabric and wood areas. During painting I did the usual chipping back but also did a lot more 'sanding' back of the paint layers. You can see an example of this effect clearly on the replacement rudder. By the way, there's a mistake on the rudder - one side is the A scheme pattern, and the other is the B scheme (or vice versa, I can't remember), but I got the Dark Earth and Mid Stone round the wrong way. I also tried to use foil sheet cut into patches and clued over the gun ports - then cut them back from the holes to try and replicate the torn and ragged fabric patches after the guns had fired. But I think that was a bit of a fail. I'd like to say that the model isn't displayed in a 'diorama'. It's more just a bit of scene setting that took about 10mins to set up. It's a plywood board with a couple of handfuls of lumpy ready mix mortar (sand and cement) sprinkled on top. And there's a few bits of of the Airfix ground crew set - tool boxes, fire extinguisher (which seems to make it on to every photo shoot) and wheel chocks. The Bedford truck is Airfix too. Here's me caught on camera making some fine adjustments... You can see from the shot above that there is very little post-processing on the PC. Mainly cleanup on the seam lines of the background image and I upped the the brightness a bit - so there's no real post photograph 'photoshopping' going on. And a couple of in-progress shots... Edited April 12, 2022 by CplPunishment 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luka Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 It took me some back and forth scrolling before realising the first bw pic is also the model.. Well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George72 Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Just amazing!! All I can say! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Nothing to add, a splendid model. Nice model, nice dio, nice pics. Thanks for sharing 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Outstanding. And those sepia shots are incredibly realistic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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