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I was bored so I manipped some sonny and chad pics and made them into a background
personally I think i stink at this kind of stuff.
if anyone wants one of the manips in the pic just ask and i'll post it.
credit me if you take
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Glenrowan. Ned Kelly (1855-80) a criminal bushranger but glorified for inexplicable reasons into an Australian folk hero but possible because of his Irish background. His father was transported as a convict and Ned married into the Quinn family suspected of cattle rustling and theft. His father died when he was 11 and at 14 Ned was arrested for assaulting a Chinese man but the charge was dismissed. Took up bushranging later that year. Imprisoned for 6 months in 1870 (aged 15). Late in 1870 imprisoned for 3 years. On release took up horse thieving with his stepfather. Both Ned’s brothers imprisoned for horse theft. Kelly’s felt themselves victims of police persecution despite their criminal activities. In 1878 went into hiding on a charge of shooting another man. Later that year he killed Constable Lonigan who was searching for Ned. Government put out a reward for Ned alive or dead for murder and bushranging. Ned’s gang took 22 people hostage on a farm near Euroa where Ned robbed a bank. In 1879 Ned and his gang robbed more, imprisoned several police and he detained 60 people at Glenrowan in a hotel. When a police train from Melbourne came Ned was prepared with his metal cylindrical headpiece and suits of armour from metal ploughs etc. The police attack took Ned down with shots to his unprotected legs. Three were killed in the Glenrowan shoot out. In 1880 Ned was tried in Melbourne for the murder of Constable Lonigan and convicted. He was hanged a couple of weeks later aged 25 yrs. Ned the cheeky underdog murderer was gone but his story and memory lives on, especially in Glenrowan the site of his last stand where several businesses try to make money from the folk hero with little museums, tacky souvenir shops and gun shooting shows!
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had to shoot an environmental shot for an assignment called backgrounds in my lighting studio class. didn't realize that i forgot to brush in the other have of "curiously strong mints" with the red.. i'll get to it soon :/
leaf valeo 4x5 w/ digital back
120mm @ ƒ/5.6 2/3
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I worked with Smart education in Tokyo to develop some backgrounds for their new ”Kids Beat" App. It's a playful music app for kids age 3~8, available in Apple iTunes Store (US and Japan). The app is free to download and comes with 2 of the songs I illustrated (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Farmer In The Dell and Bear went over the Mountain). itunes.apple.com/us/app/kidsbeat/id528922061?mt=8
Resting against the background of Leeds on Saturday was my good friends fantastic Optare Vecta.
I was initially picked up by a certain former Black Prince stelwart before we headed out to cruise around in 73.
A lot of work has taken place on the ol' girl, from a thorough polish to oily mechanical work!
She is now seen carrying freshly applied Black Prince fleet names on her immaculate paintwork.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Supermarine 370 “Stalwart” was a British twin-engined long-range maritime patrol flying boat. Originally designed for the Royal Air Force Coastal Command as an anti-submarine aircraft for long range operations over the Atlantic the type saw, with the change of threats and global priorities from 1944 on, only limited production and use in the Pacific theathre of operations in late WWII.
The 370’s design started in early 1940, intended primarily for military use, but also with an option for commercial duties. The military 370 was intended as a more powerful alternative to the Consolidated PBY Catalina, as well as a faster and twin-engined successor to the Short S.25 Sunderland. The civil version was supposed to carry seats for 52 passengers, or sleeper accommodation for 28.
The 370 accepted by the RAF and received the name "Stalwart". The flying boat was a gull-winged, alle-metal aircraft with twin oval vertical stabilizers on top of a deep fuselage. The fuselage was divided into eight watertight compartments to improve survivability. Despite its size the 370 was only to be powered by two engines - one of the reasons for the type's protracted development phase until mid 1944. The engines were installed in the bends of the wings with the floats on an underwing cantilever rack. Each float was divided into four watertight compartments.
Progress was good, but the lack of appropriate engines in the 2.000+ hp class in time delayed the project. Nevertheless, equipped only with 1.600 hp Hercules engines, the underpowered 370 prototype first flew on 30th April 1942. The type showed much potential, with very good handling characteristics both in the air an at sea, but it was not until the availability of the sufficiently powerful Bristol Centaurus engine in 1944 that the Stalwart could show its full potential and actually be put into service - and even this engine was not deemed to be sufficient.
Consequently, the Stalwart became the first (and, eventually, the only) aircraft to be powered by the Bristol Orion engine. Designed by Sir Roy Fedden, the Orion (a name used previously for a variant of the Jupiter engine, and later re-used for a turboprop one), was an enlarged capacity version of the Centaurus. It was also a two-row, 18 cylinder sleeve valve engine with the displacement increased to 4,142 cubic inches (67.9 l), nearly as large as the massive American Wasp Major four-row, 28-cylinder radial, the largest displacement aviation radial engine ever placed in quantity production.
But there was more to the Orion radial than just sheer size and power. It also benefited from a late-war era invention, known as the "blowdown turbine" or "power-recovery turbine" (PRT). This design extracted energy from the momentum of the moving air in the exhaust system, but did not appreciably increase back-pressure. Effectively, this avoided the undesirable effects of conventional designs when connected to the exhaust of a piston engine, and a number of manufacturers studied this concept, because the PRT not only boosted the engine output, it also gave an extra 15 to 35 percent fuel economy - highly appreciated for a long range aircraft like the Stalwart.
Due to the engine troubles the 370’s serial production was just starting when the war situation relaxed and the need for a Sunderland update waned. Hence, after 20 initial airframes in early 1945, the original production order of 200 was cancelled. The already finished Stalwart airframes were equipped and put into RAF servoce but only saw use during the last months of the Second World War in the Pacific theatre or operations under SEAC command.
From the start, the Supermarine Stalwart was equipped with the ASV Mark III, which operated in the centimetric band and used antennae mounted in blisters under the wings outboard of the floats, instead of the cluttered stickleback aerials of former radar systems. The ASV enabled the flying boat to attack submarines on the surface, and allowed surveillance operations at day and night.
As weapons they carried, beyond conventional torpedos, water bombs or mines, new Mk.24 acoustic mines (nicknamed "Fido") that automatically homed in on the sound of submerged submarines or, lacking a homing signal, patrolled a certain area in circles in hope for an accidental collision hit.
In this role the Stalwart GR.Is were operated primarily by RAF 205 from Ceylon and 357 Squadron from Madras, but after the hostilities ended the flying boats were quickly phased out: the Orion engine and its complicated turbine mechanism proved to be unreliable and hard to service, and the tropical climate of the operation zone did not make things better - even though the Stalwart was easy to fly and a stable platform for various tasks. Nevertheless, all aircraft were scrapped, and the idea of a commercial version was also quickly let down due to the technical advances of land-based aircraft.
General characteristics
Crew: 9—11 (2 pilots, radio operator, radar operator, navigator, engineer, bomb-aimer, 3-5 gunners)
Length: 24,62 m (80 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 33 m (110 ft)
Height: 7.64 m (25 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 120 m² (1.292 ft²)
Empty weight: 18.827 kg (41.506 lb)
Loaded weight: 23.456 kg (51.711 lb)
Landing weight: 20.928 kg (46.138 lb))
Max. take-off weight: 29.000 kg (64.000 lb)
Powerplant:
2× Bristol Orion PRT II compund radial piston engines with 3.000 hp (2.158 kW) each
Performance:
Maximum speed: 414 km/h (218 kn, 257 mph) at 1.800 m (5.900 ft)
Cruise speed: 280 km/h (173 mph) at 2.000 m (6.600 ft)
Landing speed: 147 km/h (105 kn, 91 mph)
Range: 5.000 km (2.700 kn, 3.100 mi)
Service ceiling: 6.100 m (20.013 ft)
Armament:
10x 0.5 (12.7 mm) Browning machine guns in nose, dorsal, side and rear turrets
2x 0.78 (20 mm) fixed Hispano cannons, firing forward
2× 1.000 kg (2.205 lb) torpedoes plus 4.410 lbs (2.000 kg) of bombs or depth charges, or 10 mines, under the wings
The kit and its assembly
A large flying boat, especially a conversion of the vintage Beriev Be-6 VEB Plasticart kit from the Col War era, had been on my project/idea list for very long. But the sheer size of the aircraft/kit had been holding me back: building sucha thing is one thing, but where to leave it once it's finished?
Anyway, what eventually evolved as Supermarine Stalwart (a tribute to the British aircraft manufacturer who's Spitfire is the most iconic product, but they produced and proposed several flying boats, too) originally was intended as a Be-6 outfitted with turrets from a Vickers Wellington and in 1943/44 Coastal Command colors.
But once I started I thought that the Be-6 would look more modern, so that a late WWII aircraft was more plausible, with heavier guns of American origin. This story also opened the opportunity for SEAC markings and colors (see below).
So, the Wellington idea was dropped, and instead I went for the "big solution": I integrated almost anything a Consolidated PB4Y Privateer (Matchbox kit) had to offer, and added a cockpit plus s scratched beaching gear.
The basic airframe of the VEB kit was retained. OOB, the cockpit is simply... empty. The parts box revealed an old Airfic B-17 cockpit, which could easily be implanted. New seats were added, as well as pilot figures (a total crew of seven polulates cockpit and weapon stations), and bulkheads were added. To my surprise the cockpit glazing is very clear, so that something of the interios can actually be seen.
Behind the cockpit a navigator/observer's bubble (from a Matchbox Beaufighter) was added, plus a floor and more bulkheads inside - an interior would not be recognizable, but leaving the fuselage empty could be seen.
The weapons stations took major body work. The dorsal stand was the easiest, since a round OOB opening was just widened enough to accept a Privateer's Martin turret. For the tail station, the OOB gun station was simply cut off and the Privateer's turret added - the tail had to be widened a bit with putty.
The side stations at first caused major headaches. In the Privateer kit they are integral parts of large fuselage panels, which ceratinly would not fit into the Be-6's lines. So I cut the teardrop fairings out, opened the flanks just far enough and glued the side stations onto the flanks. Some gaps were there, but hiding them with putty was, in the end, easier than expected. Even the gunners could be taken over from the PB4Y.
The nose station was tricky, because I could not simply slice the Be-6 nose off and replace it with the ball turret - the ship hull had to be kept intact, while the turret was to blend neatly with the rest of the fuselage. Width was not a problem, but the height (the Matchbox turret is oversized, anyway) was critical. I eventually assembled the turret and merged it in a trial-and error fashion. Again, putty work was needed to blend the shapes - but the whole thing turned out so well and plausible that there was space left for a bomb aimer/observer station under the turret foundation.
The most critical conversion were new engines. The OOB radials of the Be-6 are... simple. And totally useless, if you want to buidl a real Be-6. Being only a two engine aircraft I first tried to integrate a pair of Centaurus engines, which would have been appropriate for the kit's time frame and also sufficient in regard of power. But these turned out to be MUCH too small in diameter. It would have taken completely new fairings, and even then the result ahd looked rather comical.
I was lucky to have some resin engines for a Constellation airliner at hand. These were still a bit too small, but overall more massive - and together with the five-bladed props a balanced solution.
Still, lots of body work had to be done around the engine fairings, and I am pleased that the results look almost natural.
Another neat resin addition are ASR.III radomes from Pavla which ended up under the outer wings, just outside of the floats (OOB). Other minor additions are a new rudder, the cannon fairings at the nose flanks and underwing hardpoints for torpedos and mines.
In order to populate them I scratched four Mk. 24 acoustic mines - nicknamed "FIDOs" and effectively late WWII predecessors of acoustic torpedos. They were created from NATO 1.000lb bombs, with scratched fins and screws, plus shackles made from thin wire. Not 100% correct, but as ordnance they are more than enough.
Last addition is the scratched beaching gear. It has no real world paradigm, but I took a look ate the devices usedto beach Short Sunderlands or the real Be-6. The main struts are frame parts from a missile dolly (for a Soviet X-20 cruise missile) plus leftover tank wheels, while the tail cart was mostly constructed from styrene strips, and it carries wheels from a Bf 109E.
Painting
One impulse for SEAC markings came from a respective Short Sunderland I came across during research, and the fact that the Revell (ex Matchbox) Wellington I originally had in store as donation kit featured SEAC markings in perfect size, too.
Anyway, I wanted to create a late WWII look, and also avoid white undersides. As a result I came up with a rather classic livery, but uncommon to naval aircraft: upper sides in RAF Dark Green and Ocean Green, combined with black undersides and a high waterline. Experimental, but it suits the Stalwart/Be-6 well and was much easier to apply than dreaded white...
Painting was done with brushes; the upper side was painted with enamels (Dark Green from Modelmaster, plus Humbrol 106) while the lower side received special treatment. Instead of painting the belly black and add flaked paint with brush effects I created this effect just the way as in real life: first, a primer coat with acrylic Aluminum was applied. On top of that came a coat of Humbrol 113, simulating primer and anti-corrosion sealant. Next came acrylic flat black. When this final coat had dried I wet-sanded the planing surfaces, letting the red and metal paint shine through. Did not work 100%, but still the result looks conclusive. Later, some flaw were hidden under dry-brushed Humbrol 173 (Brown Bess), which was slso used, mixed with black, for panel shading, creating the impression that the red sealant was showing through, but much less than on the worn undersides.
The beaching gear was painted dull yellow, and the only color highlights on the aircraft are the blue spinners which are to match the single tactical code's color and the SEAC roundels. I wanted a murky look, and I think that was achieved.
All interior surfaces were painted with FS34096, a darker shade than RAF Interior Green, but still with a gray-ish touch.
After some additional dry-painting with grey tones, a black ink wash and soot stains around the exhausts the kit was sealed under a coat of matt acrlyic varnish.
A literally huge project (the thing was ~23" wings span, almost half a meter!), and taking pics was almost more demanding than building the Stalwart. But I think the result looks cool - reminds a lot of the Martin Mariner, but almost any semblance of the Be-6 is IMHO gone!
it's a background
sometimes praised to be magnificent
sometimes included in the picture
it's a background
always kept in a distance
always meant to be second
can be replaced at any time
it's so brilliant
it's so unimportant
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