Thanks for the compliments, everyone! How about another Last Crusade profile?
Lovely delicate shading and tones.
Love it.
Thanks, Flitzer. A lot of people may not realize it, but the lighting and shading is actually different on each profile to suit the amount of wear and the type of paint on each plane, so I thank you for noticing it. A lot of effort goes into even the little details on my profiles, hence my custom title "rivet-counting whiffer".
Considering how Jones Senior shot up the tail of the plane, I'm almost surprised they didn't put the Hakenkreuz there.
Yeah, there was no shortage of swastikas throughout the rest of the movie. Maybe the Stampe was German-registered or something and they weren't allowed to put one on it? That's my best guess.
Shortly after the Republic of Hatay declared independence in the latter half of the 1930s, it began preparing for its own defense. While most of its armed forces were limited to camels, horses, desert vehicles, and tanks, the small air arm did acquire some aircraft. The aircraft were primarily acquired from Germany, an early supporter of the new republic. Ten Heinkel He 46G-1s were procured on a German loan received after granting the Luftwaffe the right of using the Hatay airspace.
Some of the more fantastic tales surrounding this agreement link it to Hitler's obsession with religious artifacts, specifically in the state of Hatay, but these are pure conjecture. The is no evidence to support these claims, the brief visit by German military advisors in 1938 merely being assistance with a military exercise the Hatay Army was conducting at the time. The interruption of these exercises by pro-Syrian rebels did not help German attempts to keep their involvement low-profile, as fighting produced casualties on both sides. Through a combination of bad planning, untrained conscript soldiers, and sheer bad luck, the 1938 exercises became a fiasco. Some vehicles were damaged by rebels and abandoned, while a tank was lost due to mechanical failure, although one report described it as having driven off a cliff after the driver passed out from heat stroke. To add insult to injury, Bedouin tribesmen in the area stole a number of horses and camels that were left unguarded at one point during the exercise. The exercises, already frowned upon by neighboring Turkey and France did not help Hatay's relations with its neighbors and would not be repeated. Likewise, Germany would end its formal involvement with the Republic of Hatay at this time.
How does the dust look? Did it come out looking alright? The camo comes from
this vehicle (a fake Kubelwagen), which I had never realized was even camouflaged due to all the dust on it. The roundels, flag, etc. all come from the vehicles in the movie, too. Here's the same plane without the dust layers, so you can see what it looks like with the full color.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade profiles!
Cheers,
Logan