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Current and Finished Projects => Profiles and Pixels => Topic started by: Inactive II on April 20, 2022, 06:53:02 AM

Title: Book Covers...
Post by: Inactive II on April 20, 2022, 06:53:02 AM
...Not "profiles" but renderings I did for John Baxter decades ago for his Alternative Luftwaffe & Tragerflotten series:

(https://i.postimg.cc/3NC2fJkd/jbtal2.jpg) (https://i.postimg.cc/02nppjg4/tragdata.jpg)
Title: Re: Book Covers...
Post by: Wyrmshadow on April 21, 2022, 12:41:14 PM
nice. I remember those images from the Luft46 website 20+ years ago
Title: Re: Book Covers...
Post by: Jonesthetank on April 21, 2022, 07:36:05 PM
I have those 2 on my bookshelf, along with a couple of John's other books.
Title: Thanks...
Post by: Inactive II on April 21, 2022, 08:45:25 PM
...Employed early Corel Graphics Suite vector drawing versions rendering them; cut teeth with Micrografx Draw c,1994-98, lightweight & fast though limited editing tools. open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) raster good "no cost" Corel substitute though vector best for graphic object editing. I still pine rendering original 1941 CONVAIR B-36 design in pre-1942 "silver bird" USAAF livery though don't relish shelling out buying vector software just to render it alone nor am up to nerve-racking effort doing so, hopefully somebody has or will render it 3-D sparing me the anguish!
Title: Re: Thanks...
Post by: Wyrmshadow on April 21, 2022, 09:56:28 PM
...Employed early Corel Graphics Suite vector drawing versions rendering them; cut teeth with Micrografx Draw c,1994-98, lightweight & fast though limited editing tools. open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) raster good "no cost" Corel substitute though vector best for graphic object editing. I still pine rendering original 1941 CONVAIR B-36 design in pre-1942 "silver bird" USAAF livery though don't relish shelling out buying vector software just to render it alone nor am up to nerve-racking effort doing so, hopefully somebody has or will render it 3-D sparing me the anguish!

This Silverbird?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Y-5SY07mI&ab_channel=Wyrmshadow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Y-5SY07mI&ab_channel=Wyrmshadow)
Title: Nope...
Post by: Inactive II on April 21, 2022, 11:01:55 PM
...Employed early Corel Graphics Suite vector drawing versions rendering them; cut teeth with Micrografx Draw c,1994-98, lightweight & fast though limited editing tools. open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) raster good "no cost" Corel substitute though vector best for graphic object editing. I still pine rendering original 1941 CONVAIR B-36 design in pre-1942 "silver bird" USAAF livery though don't relish shelling out buying vector software just to render it alone nor am up to nerve-racking effort doing so, hopefully somebody has or will render it 3-D sparing me the anguish!

This Silverbird?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Y-5SY07mI&ab_channel=Wyrmshadow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Y-5SY07mI&ab_channel=Wyrmshadow)
...That's the Eugen Sänger Orbital Bomber, did render art of it for a German writer c.1999-2000 don't have image of it alas.
Title: Re: Book Covers...
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 22, 2022, 01:38:07 AM
I have those 2 on my bookshelf, along with a couple of John's other books.

Ditto
Title: Re: Book Covers...
Post by: ptdockyard on April 23, 2022, 08:29:19 PM
These two are in a special place in my collection. John said he had a third coming out but apparently not.

Dave G
Title: Re: Book Covers...
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 24, 2022, 02:21:18 AM
These two are in a special place in my collection. John said he had a third coming out but apparently not.

Dave G

A third Luftwaffe one or third Tragerflotten one?