Profile in 2.5 hours?

Replic is well known magazine from France, where could be excellent model builds accompanied with great archive materials. It is my great pleasure that I have published few of my model builds there and in January 2010 issue is published my model build of CMR resin model of the Bolton Paul P.111 British test jet plane, in 1/72 scale. This model build is published with the selected archive images, which give more light on the same project. So why is this article so important for me?

Bolton Paul P.111

Reason is very simple- inside is also published one color profile of this machine and this profile is made from blank canvas to the final art in just 2.5 hours!!! Everybody who have any experience and info about the same method of the color profile work, know that for the basic development of the profile, illustrator need at least few days. This time I have even go beyond the limit as well my previously record was 1.5 days for the profile of the MiG-19, also from blank canvas! Maybe this could be interesting to note that I still use standard mouse for my work, still I have no digital tablet…. but one day..

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- November 7, 2009 - No Comments

Hard core way to be illustrator

How to to survive orders? Well, there is the story… I have start in relaxed atmosphere work on the technical drawings of the Alpha Jet and the set of the color profiles of the Junkers Ju 52. No hurry as well almost two weeks of time is more then enough to complete this order. As always I have very nice support from my friends from Netherlands, France and Australia in complete technical and historical documentation for this machine.

Spitfire color profile

And then it come…. email where my British publisher ask me to deliver technical drawings for four different machines and time for this- ten days!!! Well, that was definitely time for panic! Only good things is that I have all available data but in other hands some of the technical manuals are almost thousand of pages and this is impossible to read it and arrange all data. So my only solution was focus on the specific subject, no extended landing gears, no cockpit details, no extract cutaway’s, no nuts and bolts, and in some cases no bottom view and front view. But even with all of this limitations there was plenty of work on the drawings and just to mention that there is still first batch of order of Ju 52 and the Alpha Jet and this material was in middle of the work!

Too much? Real game coming when my boss from French order profiles and four different airplanes…

Yes, I am still alive, all of this material delivered in time, it is also printed in this moment and I need some rest. What is the best way to rest a little? To take another project! Now I work on the color art for the Spitfire book and preparing for the heavy winter…. three books to be printed in the early 2010, and two more to come till the spring 2010.

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- October 27, 2009 - No Comments

Machtrainer is out

After many delays and changes, book about the Fokker S-14 Machtrainer is out!!! All story started when my very good friend Nico Braas from Netherland said that there could be interest to make article about this airplane for our web site LetLetLet Warplanes. I agree that this could be interesting and most challenging was the fact that this is the first jet trainer in the world. Jet trainers before are actually converted fighter and this one is first purposely made machine.

Extract of Machtrainer color profile

As well I am not familiar at all with this machine I have received very good material, necessary to make technical drawings and later color profiles. No matter that material provided by Nico was excellent, I need more for precise work. This was the reason why Nico were visited some of the preserved machines several times, to take set of the close up images and to take measures of the actual airplane. All of this, joined with the copy of the blueprints and the manuals, resulted in the very good drawings as well precise color profiles.

Article is published on our web site but that was not end of the story… Dutch publisher show interest in the book and this resulted in much deep research done by Nico. From my side I did not do anything more but I have pleasure to to many images editing as well some was worn out and they need sharpening for the desired level of quality need for the printed publication.

What other to said but this was real pleasure to work with Nico Braas and specially and I am glad that I was in team who bring to the world a story about one very interesting airplane.

See ya in next project