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Posted on 17/12/08 2:16:02 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply  |
Jet powered fly swat
This is work-in-progress with a little way to go before it's finished. It's all very silly and it's probably best that you don't ask why, but I am working on this Jet-Powered Fly-swat. The modelling was done in Cinema 4D with the aircraft details added in Photoshop. Of course I still have to add a pilot which will probably be done using Poser for the body and, probably, my own head wearing a fighter pilot's 'bone-dome'. Details still have to be added to the farthest aircraft with a few more also to be added to the nearest such as a company logo in place of RAF roundels. I will be using a different background from the one shown here. Any comments - other than the obvious one about why anyone should want a Jet-Powered Fly-swat? 
_________________ The pantomime for paranoid-schizophrenics was going very well until someone shouted "He's behind you" |
Posted on 17/12/08 2:46:40 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply  |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
is it me or do you have a couple of stray red dots on the main aircraft. are you intent on world fly domination |
Posted on 17/12/08 2:55:20 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
Hi Steve, Yes I see what you mean. They don't look right. The one on the top of the fuselage is supposed to be an anti-collision light and the one on the wing-tip is the port navigation light. A little more work required there I think. _________________ I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. |
Posted on 17/12/08 3:19:02 PM |
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The Mad Lep
Four-Leafed Fantasist Posts: 323 Reply  |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
I'm more worried about stray dots on his brain!  Gordon that kicks ass, I LOVE it. You're a mad bloke.  Made my afternoon.  |
Posted on 17/12/08 3:55:29 PM |
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Eggbox
Ovoid Opportunist Posts: 797 Reply  |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
Is this the ultimate undoing of flies? 
Ted |
Posted on 17/12/08 4:02:56 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
[quoted] The Mad Lep wrote: You're a mad bloke.
That's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me! _________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 17/12/08 4:05:47 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply  |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
And probably one of the truest!!
Sorry Gordon, only joking! Great invention - have you patented it yet? And are the flies really that big in your neck of the woods?  |
Posted on 31/12/08 7:16:04 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
I've been working away at this project over the Christmas hols and this is where I've arrived at. Any comments appreciated For the more curious amongst us it's a spoof interceptor destined for one of a series of air safety posters to bring to the attention of light aircraft pilots the problem of entering controlled airspace without approval. It should eventually be seen in flying clubs around the UK and Europe. 
_________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 31/12/08 7:21:06 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
And a HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. _________________ I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. |
Posted on 01/01/09 07:09:25 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
Hi Gordon and a happy 2009 to you too. The image is great and the sky has improved immensely on the original version. Some comments: I would show the planes along with their prey and a little Cessna or Piper in the space top left may add something, or was the plan to put text there? I would be inclined to add a dimension of speed via motion blur to both aircraft - very subtle though. The 'Anti infringement' text should be set back slightly. At the present location it does not sit confortably with the contours of the engine. Nick |
Posted on 01/01/09 12:17:49 PM |
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The Mad Lep
Four-Leafed Fantasist Posts: 323 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
Great work Gordon! |
Posted on 03/01/09 1:19:31 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4025 Reply |
Re: Jet powered fly swat
Thanks Nick and Celia _________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. |