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Hi all - thanks for all the kudos, Hopefully I'll have some flightline stuff with the other Valks soon. In the meantime - I've been asked a lot about photography tips - so I'll post some here: I am taking them with a Nikon 990 - its old, but decent. I always shoot on manual mode with ISO 100. The key thing is lighting - without it, you can't do anything. So short of a studio setup with proper lights, I have to wait until there is sun and I do it outside under direct sunlight. Second most important thing is the background - a simple neutral background will do so much more to enhance your model - the actual subject matter. Remember to always meter for neutral grey (30% - skin tones) - if you have a white plane and meter for the plane, then you will get a grey plane - all camera meters measure light accurately for 30% grey. Either stick your hand (skin tone is pretty close to 30% grey in B&W) in front of the model and meter for that, or buy a grey card at a local photo shop and meter for that to get the proper exposure. Close down on the aperature, use the smallest aperature your lighting condition will allow, F-11 and smaller (higher number 16,22) will get you a larger depth of field so both the front and tail of your model will be in focus. Biggest giveaway of scale or size is to have a short depth of field. Get down and try to shoot your plane from the "ground" level. Being a small model, the tendency is to shoot all the shots from above - because we usually look down on models. But we rarely look down on an plane, we usually look across or up at it - try to think as though you are walking around a real aircraft.
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Hey Neova, I'd be very interested in what you come up with. I am in the basement, but I would like to vent to the exterior too. I think the hobby ones are too expensive and small - I was hoping to find some industrial ones, but the kitchen idea seems neat. If you can send any sites for research - it would help. My dream would be a retractable setup, pulled down to paint, and retract up to the ceiling to build my model in the same place - I can't afford the space for a separate spray booth. Does anyone here work in a vented setup?
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Hi all, The sunny day completed photos are posted in the Model section: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=7956 The light grey is really white with a few drops of sky grey maybe 90:10 ratio - its amazing how little you need to ruin a pure white
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That's it folks - thanks for tuning in. I just remembered that I didn't take anything with the VF-0 next to my other planes - the older VF-1 or YF-19 for size comparison - I'll do that later. The sun has gone away. Here is the link to the step-by-step build up: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=5881 Cheers
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Front gear and gun pod details - you can just make out the spinners inside the intakes. I love that landing light on the forward door!
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The tailcone ribbing adds alot to the finished appearance, you can just make out the afterburners inside - its too bad, but with the naked eye you can see quite a lot and what a great job Hasegawa did with them.
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Maybe if there was a way to hinge the flaps - I didn't want the flaps down since I wanted to swing the wings in or out, but this view begs for the flaps to be down.
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