David Bathe

Standing Ovation.
Love the Graphics.
It's a cracker.[sm=thumbs_up.gif]

allanflowers

Very nice photo of the Hellcat. Looks absolutely real.
I happened to arrive at that event as they were starting the static on that plane. Everybody could see it was extraordinary. The scale outline judge walked over after doing his part and said he wanted to know how the guy managed to 'take a real plane and shrink it down!' He said he couldn't find ANYTHING wrong on it. The craftsmanship judge said that only the hinge spacing was a little off, otherwise it was perfect. Since the photo documentation indicated that the hinges weren't perfect, he had to mark it down a little.

Got any other pix from that meet?

SDCrashmaster

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ZoomZoom-RCU

Geeeeeeesh!! The Hellcat is flaming amazing! Thanks for getting the thread back on track in a powerfull way.

ZZ.

warks62

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You need to see it in person the panel and rivot detail is unbelievable. This is the best Hellcat I have ever seen in person or a picture of in fact. Great pic very real except for the grass behind.

Hot Rod Todd

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I'll do my part to get the post back. Here is my 86" Don Smith Ki61.

Tango Juliet

RCPhotog - Great capture of a magnificent model, and equally as great PS work. Outstanding on many levels. What settings/lens were you using?

fcf

I tryed to take a photo of this P-51 but it was moving to fast and the overcast did not help any. when I look at the photo well you judge.

Spuetz

Hello fcf,

wow, what great scale shots! The left picture: honestly, you got that from old German reconnaissance archives, didn't you? That's not a model! That is classified material!
And the right picture: You had me going for a while! I really thought, if was looking at a a full size Mustang. Then I counted the stripes on the wing tips and - got you! One stripe too many! Those little things that give it away...



Martin

SDCrashmaster

I too was very much fooled. I completely thought I was looking at a full-scale picture until I saw that the poster was from Arizona.
Then I remembered that it is only in Texas where everything is bigger...like people, lawn chairs, popup tents, vehicles and trailers.
Then I sadly realized, it in fact, was not a full-scale image, but only that of a model. The inflight shot is one of the best and most realistic I've seen in quite some time.

fcf, your last words in your post were "you judge". That may have been a mistake. In case you can't tell, these last two posts are done in sarcasm, as your photos couldn't be further from what this thread is all about.
My suggestion is that you be like Avis, and try harder next time. Might help to learn what this thread is all about.

Tango Juliet

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to kindly set fcf straight on the expectations of photos in this thread. A snapshot of a scale model is not what we're looking for here. What we are looking for is an image that has some thought put into it and shows a scale model that appears to be the real thing, in a real environment. It's the over-all scale factor. Anything in the image should be representative of the scale of the aircraft. Natural grass is going to effect the image, as are full size runway stripes. People can be in the photo, but you'll have to play with some forced perspective. Go through the thread, there are a few photos by a modeler in Europe that did this with his Cessna 182. There are other threads for showing off your scale model, this isn't that thread.

fcf

Sir,
My apology
I was at a RC Air Show and was taking photos for my personal scrap book. I wanted to take a shot of the Mustang low fly by like I did many other planes that day. For some reason I could not get a good clear shot of the Mustang as you see on the left. I just added the photo on the right to show the plane that I was attempting to photograph. I shown the photo of the fly by to a friend who also thought it was real. I decided to share it with others. My attentions was for viewers to look at the fly by, then look at the model it self. I do under stand what this thread is about and I did not mean to start any sarcasm. I was just trying to get a good clear shot but for some reason after several attempt of getting a clear shot with a digital camera this photo look like a full scale taken with a Polaroid.
Once again my apology. the photo of the fly by was not a attentional shot. it just came out that way.

Chad Veich

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Arkansas actually.

SDCrashmaster

Ooopps...my bad...AR...AZ...AK...AL.
fcf...no worries. We're just giving you a hard time

rcphotog

Thanks for your kind coments and here ya go.....[link]http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_8665844/tm.htm[/link]

uncljoe

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Jerry Wrights ....Gee Bee.. Sun Valley Flyers field Phoenix,Arizona
Semper Fi
Joe

uncljoe

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Howard Kennedy's Stearman.... SVF
Semper Fi
Joe

strega7

Mikojan Mig-29 on short final GAF AFB Laage , Jagdgeschwader 73 [X(]



This shot is from the Composite ARF Fly-in in Kehl-Sundheim. As I said a kit from Composite ARF, two turbos, scale at its best, piloted by Marc Freohn, mebre of the worldchampionship jet-team Germany ...... fantastic ! .... and of of course fantastic expensiv here flies about 20.000 Euros

uncljoe

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Strega 7
Thats one fine jet ! My kind of Aircraft
Semper Fi
Joe

PS might you know if it will be at World Jet Masters ?

abufletcher

It may be a nice model but the photos don't do anything for me. And considering the usual "hard time" we give posters, I'm surprised no one has commented on the photo of a jet deploying a drag shoot on (deep) grass.

uncljoe

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Having witnessed the Russian Mig 29 do grass landings I could see nothing wrong with it ,But seeing the Second cut of rough & tarmac your right .[X(]
It should have been creatively cropped.
Semper Fi
Joe

SDCrashmaster

But...85% of it is that it isn't a WWI plane. And that's where your heart lies.
Believe it or not, the most fascinating and coolest faction of the hobby does not involve those twirly things on the front.
And I'm not talking about those fueled by batteries either.
I agree with the grass comment. Unfortunately, many of the european events don't seem to be happening on pavement.
Makes it kind of hard on those jet shooters.
Abu, have you ever been to a bonafide jet event? You have to see it...hear it....and smell it...to get it.

abufletcher

Perhaps that's part of my reaction. But really the photos just leave me flat from my perspective as a (occasionally pro) photographer. Technically, those shots are a little soft and composition doesn't give much of a feel for the dynamics of this type of aircraft. I do think that's a general problem with photos of jets (as I commented before). In person, you hear them scream and watch them streak (and perhaps also smell the fumes). But all that disappears in a photo and they often look like bricks in the air. With prop planes you can at least see the spinning of the prop. But with a jet I suppose the best you can hope for is the distortion of the jet wash (which adds a lot in my opinion). Beyond that, I think the key to getting a great in-the-air jet shot would be to find an unusual position (potentially higher up) and/or crop for more dynamic compositions.

In terms of the criteria for this thread, however, even a dull composition is OK as long as it looks like a dully composed shot of the full-scale, which these generally do. I wasn't aware that an M-29 could land on grass. But then after spending 6-weeks in Kamchatka, nothing the Russians do would surprise me! Great people, but crazy pilots!

I believe they may have stopped building them things I call aeroplanes round about 1930. Oh, for a couple years after that they did make some curious looking birds. But then some damn engineer decided to remove the engine, build the thing like a rocket, and call it a jet.

Do they make jet biplanes? Seriously, I've heard and watched the occasional jet in person. Still doesn't do much for me. But then I've been flying back and forth (and around) the globe on jets for nearly a quarter century.

uncljoe

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Heavy metal
Skymaster F16 Ron Long owner / pilot
Semper Fi
Joe
( nothing the Russians do would surprise me! Great people, but crazy pilots!) Willing to do almost anything to prove it can be done.....

abufletcher

Now those are some great photos!