[WWI] Caproni - Gabrieles

[Douglas Anderson]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Diego, shooting me down in flames!

On 26 February 2010 02:41, Diego Fernetti <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar> wrote:

> Douglas!
>
> http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=25421&hl=autogyro
>> This article has an interesting method of "showing" the structure through
>> the covering material. Painted, but interesting none-the-less.
>>
>
> Well, to be honest, the method doesn't impress me too much...
> He didn't achieved anything that couldn't be done just by scoring thin
> plastic card, or perhaps covering with any aeromodelling tissue, achieving a
> more scale thickness.
> And while I commend his efforts on scratchbuilding, the model itself looks
> clunky and oversprayed, unlike anything remotely capable of flight. I know
> that it's outside the topic of this thread but:
> - The structure looks more like belonging to a mountain bike than to an
> aircraft.
> - Weld lines are usually a visible feature, what's the point on putting
> (puttying?) a lot of work in making invisible joints?
> - The engine cylinders cooling fins should look like... fins. No like
> rolled thick gauge solder wire. I like what he did to represent heated
> metal. Good for the chromed exhaust of a motorcycle, but for a small
> aviation engine? I have my doubts.
> - The seats look as clad with elephant foreskin. What's the deal with that?
> He seems to have never seen an upholstered chair!
> - The tail looks very thick compared to the renderings, and the structure
> might belong to a bank safe, not to an aircraft control surface.
> - The sequence of airbrushing makes little sense (apart from the
> understandable accidents, that can happen to anyone) Why painting everything
> red, then mask the structure? Why not assembling prepainted covering to the
> prepainted structure? Why he showed that horrid doll with the erased bikini?
> Sheesh! We got the point when he stripped the paint off the autogyro model!
> -  At least in the CG rendering he posted on the first page, the
> undercarriage looks almost graceful, while the model parts are almost
> disgraceful.
> - The instrument panel also seems chunky and in the final paint version, it
> seems to have been smeared in thick blackish oil (like the rest of the
> aircraft). Feck! it's 1/18 scale fer chrissake, he can try to be more subtle
> than this!
> Just to think that last week I was in awe by the other Greek modeler who
> made the Felixstowe!
> D.
> I liked his workroom. That was nice.
>
>
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