Bunker Hill Morning CAP (1 Viewer)

[ivanmoe]

White 107 is from Dragon Wings, other model and figures by Corgi, deck section by Three-Wire and backdrop by Google. I find it hard to capture good images of scenes like this in 1/72. When I get the focus and sharpness that I'm looking for with one element, I invariably lose it somewhere else. Oh, and it's really hard to blow on two props at once!

-Moe

 

[Terp152]

Beautiful scene Moe. Great work with the moving prop and perfect backdrop. Like how you positioned the 2nd acft to show the same sqd and hid the tail number. Great dio. :salute:: Chris

 

[wayne556517]

Yeah really good mate the back drop does the job.

 

[lancer]

Always liked the yellow noses on those F4U's. Very nicely done, Moe. Naval air rules!^&grin -- Al

 

[ivanmoe]

Great work with the moving prop and perfect backdrop. Like how you positioned the 2nd acft to show the same sqd and hid the tail number.

Thanks Chris,

Getting those props to spin in tandem was a wonder in itself. Don't know how I'd manage it with a deckload of models to animate, but a leaf-blower would probably do the trick. However, I'm afraid that the air group and accompanying figures would take to the skies when I switched on the power. This is an aspect of display that will likely need additional research!

Didn't feel too bad about using White 107 and White 167 together, both of which were flown by Roger Hedrick. By and large, Navy and Marine pilots weren't assigned their own aircraft. Both services invariably had more pilots than planes, a situation that prevailed from early 1942, onward. It's so hard to find models from the same squadron. I couldn't resist the temptation to display them together.

-Moe

 

[ivanmoe]

Yeah really good mate the back drop does the job.

Thanks Wayne,

To tell you the truth, I still haven't completely figured out how to handle "backlighting." Realism dicates that the lee-side of the planes and figures should be little more than shadows in those light levels. However, the eye-candy would be reduced to the lit areas of the deck and the backdrop itself.

Another area of photographing displays that I struggle with is aspect ratio. Consider the following:

In the picture above, I've used the camera settings to reduce the amount of sky in the pic by setting an extended aspect ratio. Below, I tried to use a less aggressive setting because I really prefer the quality of the image:

Good enough, I suppose. However, the result leaves me wondering if I'm taking a picture of the sky or of my models! I run into this issue constantly, BTW. I want to take the image captures relatively close to eye-level. However, I end up with a huge portion of my pics being of the sky rather than the actual subject matter.

Finally, I have to comment that it can take an enormous amount of surface area to stage gatherings of model airplanes. A couple of weeks back, I posted a pic of a BoB display to another thread. It may be hard to believe, but that humble display-mat was three feet wide, and the backdrop was a bit wider still. Were the above pics done in 1/48, rather than 1/72, I'd have needed two to three feet of "deck," rather than the sixteen inches that you see above. Hey, but where's the fun without the challenge?

-Moe

 

[ivanmoe]

Always liked the yellow noses on those F4U's. Very nicely done, Moe. Naval air rules!^&grin -- Al

Hi Al,

"The Wolfpack" is always a winner. Just wish we could get milk more product out of TS-makers!:wink2:

-Moe

 

[ivanmoe]

Swapped out backdrops for the Wolfpack display:

My, but isn't that a change of scenery!

-Moe

 

[lancer]

Swapped out backdrops for the Wolfpack display:

My, but isn't that a change of scenery!

-Moe

Bogies inbound, 35 miles, angels 15! Launch fighters! Looking good. -- Al