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Title: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 15, 2014, 01:38:26 PM Hi,
here I started colorizing another photo - Pokryshkin on P-39: (http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t518/66misos/P-39_Pokryshkin/141215_Pokr_na_Kobr_00cb_zps7fcb21c4.jpg) More discoussion about this photo is at http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1367.msg13074#msg13074 (http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1367.msg13074#msg13074) This is my up-today work - EDIT: Dec 18, 2014 (http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t518/66misos/P-39_Pokryshkin/141218_Pokr_na_Kobr_02_zpsee837511.jpg) Your comments are (again) more than welcome. Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: learstang on December 15, 2014, 05:53:24 PM Good start, 66misos; I look forward to your work on this one! Those victory stars in the original photograph are somewhat hard to understand. I would think that the coloured stars were individual victories, whilst the broken outline stars are shared victories, but I find it hard to believe that a pilot had only 6 individual victories, and 24(!) shared victories, so there may be some other explanation for the stars. However, I do agree with your interpretation of those first 6 stars as being different from the remaining 24.
Regards, Jason Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Massimo Tessitori on December 16, 2014, 05:49:07 PM Hi Misos,
a good start as usual. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 18, 2014, 07:07:53 AM Hi,
a little update - see colorized picture above. Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 19, 2014, 12:07:44 PM Hi,
another update: (http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t518/66misos/P-39_Pokryshkin/141219_Pokr_na_Kobr_03_zpsf11ae2aa.jpg) Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Massimo Tessitori on December 19, 2014, 01:52:43 PM Hi Misos,
the original photo has a lot of white dots, so some restoration would be good. The colorizing work is very good, as usual. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Massimo Tessitori on December 20, 2014, 06:38:43 AM But, what are those three cross-like dots inside the rear canopy?
Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 20, 2014, 02:44:18 PM Hi Massimo,
I already work on that scratches and dirty. You are right there is too much of it. Those little cross-like dots should be leafs from the tree behind Cobra: (http://vif2ne.ru/nvi/forum/files/Igor78/(130827192632)_009.jpg) Regards Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 21, 2014, 12:39:10 PM Hi,
here is cleaned picture, plus blue sky above engine is changed to shadow on the clouds: (http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t518/66misos/P-39_Pokryshkin/141221_Pokr_na_Kobr_04_zpsdf91b0e6.jpg) The picture could be finished. Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Spitfire on December 21, 2014, 12:53:11 PM That's great you have really brought the photo to life.
Cheers Dennis Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 21, 2014, 04:12:30 PM Thanks all for comments.
Btw, what was color of pilots's leather helmet? Black or dark brown? Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Massimo Tessitori on December 22, 2014, 07:17:36 AM Hi Misos, I think that it should be very dark brown as coffee, but I can't find photos now.
Have you already torned lights to orange and shados to blue? The colors look a bit flat as they are now. I would work a bit on the colors of the skin too. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: 66misos on December 22, 2014, 09:40:39 PM Hi Massimo,
I adjusted lights&shadows as you proposed above. Plus I worked a bit on the skin and leather helmet. The final picture is already in the Gallery at http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1932.0 (http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1932.0) Regards, 66misos Title: Re: Pokryshkin on (his?) P-39 Post by: Massimo Tessitori on December 23, 2014, 06:50:04 AM Very good work Misos.
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