BROKENEAGLE'S PAINTINGS - D9 UPDATE
Big thanks to MP, Luiz, Duke, Laurence and Bob for stopping by and giving me some feedback.
Thanks Guys! Your support is really important to these projects of mine as I need to bounce off things with people who are like minded.
Here is where we were at on my last post just after I got back from the Canberra model show.
I remember lying on the bed in the hotel painting the cloud bank for this one and thinking how wonderful the new technical age is where i can paint in the hotel room without having to have any of the problems of real paint to worry about when I am 600 km from home.
I also got quite a bit done on the tree line while sitting at my stand and as Laurence said he came up to me a few times and I did not see him at first because I was buried in the moment with this.
Update - 2 November.
I spent a '
lifetime' on building up the field grass from the distance forward.
It's kind of like a diorama in that way in that if you want the detail to match the level of the main topic you have to put in the hours otherwise the plane will appear very strange and the whole picture just won't work.
The cammo is in full swing on the main plane and this will help me considerably when I get to the paint stage of the model as I will have already researched and painted the plane before. I still have the wings, the gun bay on the cowling, the staining and weathering and the other FW to do.
I am also thinking of having a DC3 coming in to land in the mid background to show that this is just post war. What do you think of using that idea?
Detail snapshot from the other end of the field.........
I have now completed the background with 3 109 k's, a fw190 and an engine near the large building.
Also added some buildings further to the right.
The beauty of digital is I can work on these details separately at a much larger size and add them with a local
'Blur' filter applied depending on how close they are. I even 'borrowed my 109G from my retrieval painting, repainted the cammo scheme to a late war K4 and changed the design details from a G2 to K4. Bingo instant background plane (or nearly instant, as it took about an hour and a half :laugh
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See you again soon for the final update.
Regards Ian