ORIGINAL: jeteffx
Well personally I find it hard to believe that Dean Cutshalls plane is that clean......being that I work for American Airlines in the maint. and eng'ring dept , and been on the acceptance flight from Boeing on numerous B777,757,767 acft.even these planes are somewhat dirty with only a few hours on them......I think the judges from Top Gun should give extra points for real weathering,paint fade, scratches, dents......don't get me wrong, there are alot of real nice looking planes out there, but when it comes to war birds(jets) you won't find a clean one anywhere. David Hudson actually is scratch building a F8 with skin wrinkles already in the mold.....now that is pure genius.......ask BVM to do that with one of his high dollar birds................Perry
I USED to think what you did, but the truth is a lot of the top competitors ARE choosing to model prototypes that are extremely clean. That Hun IS that clean. It's a lovingly maintained piece of high performance toy, not a commercial product like a 767, but something that gets buffed ALL THE TIME. Same with the Super Cub Graeme Mears modeled, etc.
Why do people pick those subjects? Maybe to save weathering, maybe because they look more impressive.
You should look at the work of Dave Platt, his stuff is always weathered, and he does an excellent job of it.
Skin wrinkles in the mold, well, that's nothign new, it's been done plenty of times before. Problem is, you are modelling the skin wrinkles of ONE particular prototype, and you will get marked DOWN if your documentation is for a slightly different bird. There is an F8 at the Intrepid a few blocks away from me, I photographed it pretty extensively because I also built an F-8, and there aren't any wrinkled panels on that bird, it was well-maintained. Maybe Mr Hudson's prototype has some, but the one I looked at up close did not.
So, were I BV, I would not do it either.