Ahoy Shipmates!!!
Kostas Kateas [angeleyes] brings us a wonderful build of the US Navy’s tribute to Ronald Wilson Reagan, USS Ronald Reagan, CVN76.
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USS Ronald Reagan, CVN76
goldenpony
Joined: July 03, 2007
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 04:48 AM UTC
Grenadier37
Joined: June 02, 2008
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 05:51 AM UTC
Simply amazing, Kostas.
Brazen
Joined: January 11, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 01:23 AM UTC
Love it!
Kostas, could you tell me a bit more about how you did the bow wave? It looks excellent...very "feathery"!
Kostas, could you tell me a bit more about how you did the bow wave? It looks excellent...very "feathery"!
Tin_Can
Joined: January 26, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 01:45 AM UTC
That is awesome. Well done. If you take your model in pic #3 and photoshop it into an actual ocean background it would pass for the real thing.
Angeleyes
Joined: December 14, 2008
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 01:53 AM UTC
As for the bow wave:
It is cotton mixed with clear silicone, selectively painted with a bit of white, but still leaving a lot of the clear silicone to its natural hue.The cotton once mixed with the silicone gives an inner whitish glow without being too obvious to the eye and also leaving just the right amount of the silicone translucence to portray the see-through of the water at the very edges.
It is cotton mixed with clear silicone, selectively painted with a bit of white, but still leaving a lot of the clear silicone to its natural hue.The cotton once mixed with the silicone gives an inner whitish glow without being too obvious to the eye and also leaving just the right amount of the silicone translucence to portray the see-through of the water at the very edges.
Brazen
Joined: January 11, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 02:02 AM UTC
Thanks for the detailed explanation! I'll give it a try...
peterf
Joined: November 23, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 08:12 PM UTC
Brilliant work, and I'm off to buy some sillicon and cotton!
Peter F
Peter F
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