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jenno

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2009, 10:23:49 pm »
This is my attempt can't decide whether colour or black/white looks best.

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2009, 10:25:53 pm »
Sorry only the one appeared here's the other one.
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2009, 11:01:22 pm »
Quote from: Voyager on October 04, 2009, 08:54:25 pm
Couldn't agree more!!! Bet if you were to convert it to B+W in photoshop and age it a little, I reckon it may look EVEN more realistic  ;)

You mean like this?..  O0
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #28 on: October 05, 2009, 01:11:12 am »
Exactly that!!! Now that's what i call a nice shot, neatly done mate  :-))
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2009, 03:07:06 am »
How about sepia tone?

I think one good trick with model shots is to choose realistic angles.
Either low down to the water, a normal eye view of scale 5 foot off the ground/quayside.
Or from a high angle making it appear you are looking down from a bridge or headland.

Vivitar do a cheap digital cameral with waterproof case. about £49 from Argos. That lets you get down to the waterline with impunity.
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2009, 08:42:17 am »
I think this one works very well as a period shot.
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2009, 09:29:35 am »
Jenno.....I fully take on board the comment from TT re the importance of the approach angle...& you have presented this brilliantly  :-))

Normally  %) :} I would had thougt that B&W would portray a more realistic older image ...however in this case ...I prefer the coloured image   ....life like....... O0 Derek
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2009, 09:42:39 am »
A couple of U-boat shots first in a Norwegian Fjord, then being captured, next returning from patrol and finally a shot through the nose of a Heinkel as it dives on HMS Cossack.
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2009, 11:05:42 am »
The images posted here are superb  and here's another one of the large Perry that was featured earlier , with a few bits added!!

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2009, 11:09:47 am »
That is an amazing model. :-))
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2009, 11:19:39 am »
Bowvave.......that latest .jpg displays amazing detail.......

Many years ago I did have the 'pleasure'  {:-{ of supervising the electro-hydraulic stripdown of a Rayathon CIWS ....gattling gun...as displayed on the model.......when it jammed with LIVE amunition in our of HMAS FFG's  ;D {-) %%...not nice  <:( :-X....but I am alive to offer the story.... :-)) Derek

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2009, 11:28:50 am »
Quote from: Bowwave on October 06, 2009, 11:05:42 am
The images posted here are superb  and here's another one of the large Perry that was featured earlier , with a few bits added!!

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Ruddy nora...that model has come along sinse i saw it a few years ago! The detail and weathering was just draw dropping then, so it's a pleasure to see it again but finished..just stunning!!!!

I'd love to be the owner of that model  :((

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2009, 11:57:30 am »
speachless!!! if it wasnt for the background id say that was a pic of the real one.

would like a pic of the whole thing :-)

just when i think im happy with what i can do i see something like that which just makes me feel somewhat inadequate
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2009, 12:05:16 pm »
Quote from: uboatbuilder on October 06, 2009, 11:57:30 am
speachless!!! if it wasnt for the background id say that was a pic of the real one. is that holmseys one?

would like a pic of the whole thing :-)

just when i think im happy with what i can do i see something like that which just makes me feel somewhat inadequate

Nope! Dortmund International Modellbau.

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #39 on: October 06, 2009, 12:23:50 pm »
One of the amazing details depicted is the aluminium plate distortion between the vertical & horizontal runners toward the top of the outboard vertical STDB aft hanger area .......anyone who has ever seen an Oliver Perry FFG hull structure I am sure will know what I mean     O0 Derek
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #40 on: October 06, 2009, 01:32:18 pm »
Quote from: derekwarner_decoy on October 06, 2009, 12:23:50 pm
One of the amazing details depicted is the aluminium plate distortion between the vertical & horizontal runners toward the top of the outboard vertical STDB aft hanger area .......anyone who has ever seen an Oliver Perry FFG hull structure I am sure will know what I mean     O0 Derek

hell yeah i never noticed that.. thats damn good 8) 8)
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #41 on: October 06, 2009, 07:31:53 pm »
This particular models  also defies description as to the skill some modelers possess .
This is a model of a Russian Destroyer  the Admiral Chabanenko   built by Richard Myoka  . Its almost impossible to tell the difference between the model and the real thing?


Is this the real one or the other two?

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #42 on: October 06, 2009, 07:57:13 pm »
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #43 on: October 07, 2009, 02:21:04 am »
Great detail.  :-))

And more testamament to the importance of realistic camera angles.
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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2009, 02:43:41 pm »
Quote from: Corposant on October 04, 2009, 10:16:08 pm
Phil

Super model (I hope I can do as well), very realistic but is it accurate?



Mike

Nice picture - tell me more. When and where was it taken ?

I understood that the "Vital Spark" as seen in the BBC TV series with Greogor Fisher, had been renamed the Maggie and owned by the same people who have the Artctic Penguin in Tarbert.

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Re: Most realistic?
« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2009, 05:30:13 pm »
Hi Phil

I took the picture myself at Crinan boatyard on 10th August this year. My understanding is that "Auld Reekie" was re-named "Vital Spark" for the Para Handy series - hence my posting the picture (trying to be funny!). Some years ago we had a holiday on the VIC32 owned by Nick Walker. He said that after the first Para Handy series, the skipper (presumably owner) of the puffer had made enough money to retire and left it to rot! Consequently, for the next series the BBC had to find another puffer - so your information is probably correct.

Perhaps others on the forum can shed further light on the matter.

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