Nice job on the Blonde Bomber.
Nice job on the Blonde Bomber.
Those are all VERY NICE!!
I have "Bit o' Lace", but with all the fine work now I need at least, OOOOhhhhh - 23 more?????
1/200 Academy b-17. Very early ww2 Pacific paint job. They were done with commercial automotive paints.
Great looking aircraft Tony, I really like your camo work.
That's very nice indeed!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Nice job. Haven't come across that camo scheme before. Reminiscent of an Israeli scheme.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
@pflanzer: Much better than the original one. I like the serface and also yellow rings on props
I concur. That is a very distinctive addition to the rotating props. I may well pinch that idea for my Corsairs when I add the props.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
True, the yellow props give it a very distinctive look, adds to the great camo job!!
Nice job!
thats awesome tony!!! working on a hawaiian department paintscheme 17 myself!
its know as "hawaiian department" camo.Originally Posted by Guntruck
Here is my rendition of a B17-D in the Philippine Islands, 1941. There has been a lot of great discussion regarding the gunnery on this plane over in the WWII section of the forum. The card will be coming soon! First I need to paint up the olive drab version of this plane. Looking forward to attacking some Japanese troop ships with her!
Shiny! I wondered what you planned to do with the firing arc info for the B-17D/. Where did you get the model?
It’s an Armaments in Miniature model. The decals are Miscellaneous Miniatures.
Looks good!
Beautiful.
I'm messing around with the concept of using a photograph of the model for the card. Here is the start of a trial card using all the great information on gunnery that was shared over in the WWII section. I'm just getting started. Adding these arcs takes me a long time as I don't do it every day. I should have taken the picture before putting the prop spinners on. Because they are transparent, they picked up the high contrast background I took the picture on. This made isolating the prop shafts kind of hard. That is why they look kind of fuzzy on the card. I had to sketch them in with the clone tool. What do you guys think?
Last edited by Dak21; 04-16-2020 at 21:06.
Really nice and not a common painting
lovely! i really love the early shark fin b-17s! not really suitable for combat in that era but they were beautiful aircraft!!! great progress on the card. wish i could manage that sort of graphic wizardry. ive got quite a few that could use cards lol.
Very nice Dave.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Very Nice!!! Great job!!
Thats really cool. Must save a lot of time.
Beautiful job on the B-17D, Dave.
Here is my first shot at a card using a photo of the model. I'm pretty happy with it.
I took a better picture than the first version above. I put the model on a bright red cutting board in an environment of bright, diffused light. Then I put a photography lamp about six feet away pointing at it from an angle. This is what gives the shadows and glare that I work so hard to recreate on the ones I make in Photoshop. It gives the picture some depth, making it appear three dimensional. The high contrast background makes it pretty easy to extract the image from the background. The trick was to make sure I held the camera directly above to plane. This allowed me to easily capture the prop spinners as part of the image. If you look, you can see the red color bleeding through them a little. I left it because it nicely highlighted them. It was a nice shortcut to just put the damage panel as "All, A, A". It would have been tough to fit all seven of them without making each gun's damage rating too small. I'd like to hear of any of you have ideas on how I could improve this.
I think making a management card is above my pay grade on this one.
Super B-17D
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Here is my rendition of the B17D on plain Olive Drab. This plane is a little less weathered than the plane metal. I like a mix of weathered, and newer looking planes. Also shown is the playing card using an overhead picture of the plane.
Useful reference on tail markings by Numbered Air Force:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030715....com/tails.asp
Impressive card Dave.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Very nice looking card. Thanks for sharing it!
You’re welcome! They certainly aren’t the beautiful works of art like Mike’s cards, but they do work. I hope that when I retire and have some time, I’ll be able to focus more on the aesthetics.
Painting the models takes up most of my free time already!
Thanks for the kind words.
1/300 B-17F & B-17G Memoir'44 New Flight Plan
Congratulations for the paintings and the pictures editing.
Rep points deserved
awesome b-17s!!!
though seeing the pic of the likely doomed b17g is a sad reminder of the losses endured by the allied airmen over germany.
You are right Phillip our passion for this airplane simulation game or vintage models creation should not leave us without memory of the pilots and crews of these WW2 planes
All these pictures of Forts are an inspiration! Especially the Yellow Tails. My uncle was a navigator in the 838 BS, 487 BG (Block P). Some day I'd like to do a flight of B17G's in the dress of the 838 BS as a tribute. Can someone point a newbie to a source for bases and maneuver cards? I can probably dig up some 1/200 B17G's, that should be the easy part.
487 BG has a great web site, by the way. A great source for information on the group history, squadron and group markings, even aircraft registration numbers. A bit of trivia, Beirne Lay, author of "12 O'Clock High," commanded the 487th from February to May, 1944.
http://www.487thbg.org/
Just a teaser but say goodbye to 3 Memphis Belles.... Stay tuned for the remake!!!
Interesting!
Beautiful birds!Just a teaser but say goodbye to 3 Memphis Belles.... Stay tuned for the remake!!!
cant wait to see the outcome. maybe itll motivate me to finish the trio of 17s im working on. though theyre an E, F, and a G
We all said goodbye to the Memphis Belle triplets. Now say Hello to the triple threat from the 379th Bomb Group, 527th Bomb Squadron...
Ye Olde Pub 42-23167 : sold for Scrap 1945
Judy 42-29963 : Lost Dec 1943 by Flak and enemy plane
Polly 42-25816 : Sold for scrap 1945
Excellent work!!
Wonderful! Love them!
Those look great, Kirk.
Really puts me in the mood to start my B-17 Flying Fortress Leader solitaire game I received last week.
Spent today sorting out the counters and cards.
I need a bigger box!
Very smart trio!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
An impressive formation Kirk
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Love those!
That's a deadly flight. Very nice
Excellent painting and decal work Kirk.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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