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by japme
Sat May 17, 2025 11:57 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: Reviving ANOTHER Oldie!!! F-4C PHANTOM II
Replies: 1
Views: 1714

Re: Reviving ANOTHER Oldie!!! F-4C PHANTOM II

Base paintjob laid down!... just need to find a specific patch/"noseart" that goes just behind the intakes...

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by japme
Sat May 17, 2025 11:37 am
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: Reviving ANOTHER Oldie!!! F-4C PHANTOM II
Replies: 1
Views: 1714

Reviving ANOTHER Oldie!!! F-4C PHANTOM II

While waiting to here back from a U-2 unit I'm doing a print for, I got bored and was looking for something to work on... decided upgrade my old F-4 from a couple years back. Started out as a simple texture/shader update to bring the shader quality up to what I have with my F-22, but turned into re-...
by japme
Sun Dec 29, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady
Replies: 6
Views: 250737

Re: Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady

More work done on the U-2... mostly shader work focussed on environmental lighting and atmospheric effects... such as icing!

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Hope everyone had a safe and happy Christmas!
by japme
Wed Dec 11, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady
Replies: 6
Views: 250737

Re: Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady

Agreed and Thanks! More work on the plane itself and its shaders/textures and decided to put it into a different environment for now. https://imageshack.com/i/pmJTJtoUp Biggest update was to the sensor pods... added the flat face to the sensor and rigged it so that it can rotate. For the shaders, I ...
by japme
Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady
Replies: 6
Views: 250737

Reviving an oldie! The U-2 Dragonlady

It's been a while! So a couple months back, I finished up a major project and was looking for something to do, and I decided to pull out one of my oldies... my old U-2, from back in 2014 https://imageshack.com/i/poFj5RI0j Originally built, when I was stationed at Osan Air Base, in South Korea, back ...
by japme
Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:17 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: RC-135U COMBAT SENT
Replies: 22
Views: 122241

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Latest artwork complete!

Prints should be arriving this week (24"x12") and one of them is going to be presented to the base... just in time for me to move onto my next assignment.

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by japme
Fri Mar 17, 2023 5:50 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: RC-135U COMBAT SENT
Replies: 22
Views: 122241

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Should be getting what I need to finish the flight-line/takeoff image, in the next week or so...


In the meantime, whipped up this, after finishing a different project...

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by japme
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:34 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: RC-135U COMBAT SENT
Replies: 22
Views: 122241

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

More work on the print that I hope to present to the base. Also rigged control surfaces and added landing gear/bays, so I could put it in landing/takeoff configuration. https://imageshack.com/i/pooJ1l0qj Will hopefully be getting permission to take photos of the actual buildings, and flightline, so ...
by japme
Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: RC-135U COMBAT SENT
Replies: 22
Views: 122241

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

As I'm currently stationed at Offutt AFB, home to the RC-135 RIVET JOINT and COMBAT SENT, I figured I'd do something with it in it's native enviroment... now just have to finish the buildings and ground detail...

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by japme
Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:47 am
Forum: Aviation Hangar
Topic: RC-135U COMBAT SENT
Replies: 22
Views: 122241

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Glad everyone likes it!

Color/Bump maps are complete!

Did a quick enviroment/lighting test, and then decided to do some post-processing in PS... a little chromatic abberation... a little HDR... some color-toning...

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