Aeroplane Heaven, I love you!

[Cazzie]

As I did with Aeroplane Heaven's F3F-2, I found the recently released Fokker E.III/IV to be a very exacting model for me to ply my wares. So, I did an Emiril job on the E.IV 164/16 and kicked it up a notch. This E.IV Eindecker has reportedly been flown by Max Immelmann and also by Kurt Wintgens of Feld Abteilung 6b.

Nonetheless, it had black and white quadrants painted in the wheel covers, which I corrected.

Also, I have a texture photo of an actual piece of German Dopen Linen. This is in a 512 X 512 size. I used this to copy and paste into all fabric surfaces on the texture.6 E.IV. New frame lines were done with new gradients and shading. Think of this as a factory fresh E.IV. I also painted in control line holes on the fuselage and corrected the metal cowling to my liking (I could see no Fokker nameplate in my reference) and also cleaned up the alpha for the cowling and fabric overall. I plan to muck it up a bit, but could not help sending up a clean version.

Caz

 

[PeteHam]

Beautiful job Cazzie

Well done :ernae:

Pete.

 

[OBIO]

That fabric looks DOPE! as the cool hip hop kids are apt to say.

OBIO

 

[aardvark62]

Fantastic plane (thankyou Aeroplane Heaven) and fantastic skin - looking forward to flying this one! But one question; as in Cazzie's screens, I too have a transparent/almost invisible rotating engine - is there any cure for this ?

A.

 

[bazzar]

Well we love you too Cazzie...

The transparency could be altered with alpha I should imagine...

 

[magoo]

I too have a transparent/almost invisible rotating engine

Check out some vintage rotaries on utube. It's a fairly accurate visual.

 

[edmoore235]

Wow! Great job Cazzie. Looks great. Thank you!!

Ed

 

[Cazzie]

Fantastic plane (thankyou Aeroplane Heaven) and fantastic skin - looking forward to flying this one! But one question; as in Cazzie's screens, I too have a transparent/almost invisible rotating engine - is there any cure for this ?

A.

Aardvark, I will go to work on that. As Baz says, the Alpha would help, but it would be better to take a still engine and copy it, then apply a slower rotary blur to the engine with a like-wise slower Alpha blur. I think it will work, let's see. Lots of running this morning when the wife returns from taking the boys to school before I can get a decent start with my brain in gear.

Caz

 

[Cazzie]

Aardvark, try the engine blur in the zip below, should look better.

Caz

 

[aardvark62]

Cazzie - many thanks for the file. Unfortunately I am still seeing no more than an extremely faint ghost of an engine....
(can't seem to insert a screen...)
Anyway, the prop blur looks great !

Aardy.