No big deal – I had plenty of other stuff to work with. So I pretty much gave up and decided I just wasn’t going to be able to color my own photos. I even found some free sites online where you could upload a picture and the software claimed it could convert it into a coloring page, but guess what – all those sites used the exact same processes I had used on my own and disliked. Compare my attempts to one of my coloring pages that has a similar image: Why is this so much better? I can’t explain it, I just know that it is. And the lines all felt ‘weak’ and rickety and difficult to color within for some reason. I actually did end up coloring this one.Ĭhoosing which lines to keep and which to leave out was tricky I always felt like I still had too many lines and they got in the way when I was trying to color. This was my second attempt And the traced result. From transforming the photos in Photoshop to figuring out what lines to trace, it just wasn’t any fun and I still didn’t feel happy with the results. It’s OK, but it still didn’t satisfy me, plus I found the whole process boring. This seemed to be a decent solution, but for some reason it still wasn’t working for me: My next big idea was to convert the image into this rather messy format, print it out, and then trace it keeping only the lines I want. Every suggested process I tried ended up looking something like this: I did some research online and found a few different techniques, but none of them really created an actual coloring page with clear lines. Since I wasn’t interested in that process, I started thinking of ways I could create a more typical coloring page out of my pictures. It can be beautiful though: an example of greyscale coloring One of the coloring books I bought was in greyscale without me realizing it, and in researching online how I could color the pages I discovered greyscale coloring usually is done with colored pencils, which isn’t a medium I enjoy working with at all. Coloring greyscale images is actually a thing, but it’s not my thing at all. However this turned out to be much more challenging than I expected. This ones harder to say what the colour is due to the way the light is falling on it.As I may have mentioned previously, one of my bright ideas I had about getting into coloring pages was to use my own photos as pages to color. In this period shots below the turret does not appear black. Parts were not always painted the same colour. I assume the waist gun turrets appeared with the introduction of the enclosed, fixed window ( block 50-BO and 25-DL) as the pivot point needed to be at the window as if it was still at the previous post position further inboard, the cutout in the window would have to be so large for the gun to maneuver it would be pointless having a window there. The ones like this have their guns mounted off centre towards the nose of the aircraft mainly facing Aft. i guess all of this doesn't really matter because only an expert will care. In google photos ``B17G Waist guns`` they are indeed black, but i've no idea why those above are in green, some of the photos dont have pivot blocks (Texas Raiders as well), instead the guns are supported by frames attached to the floor. I wasn't aware that it was often removed though, thanks for that info. Sound proofing? Do you mean thermal insulation rather than sound insulation? I,m sure it helps with sound but i thought its designed to keep some heat in the aircaft. So Airfix got it right as they only have the Dark Green used for items in the cockpit or things like the structure that's holding and turning the underbelly ball turret plus some other seperately installed items. Modern day warbirds are often painted interior green (rather than dark dull green) but this is for anti-corrosion purposes and is not historically accurate. Some small components made by subcontractors may have had some paint (dark dull green) but this was limited to some rear fuselage frames and the like - the skin was natural metal.Įarly model B-17s (up until early batch F models) had sound proofing covered in an olive green fabric, but this was usually removed once in combat. It is a very common misconception when it comes to B-17s that they were painted internally, but from the prototype to the last one off the production line, no interiors were painted, especially not US Interior Green as often seen on models. Sidewalls were covered in an olive green padding.Īll other areas of the interior, from the nose through to the tail turret were unpainted. For the late model G you plan to build, exposed metal in the cockpit was the only area with any paint, and this was Bronze Green or Dark Dull Green.
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