Flying Circus by Syrup

Lightwave • Historical • posted on Jan 03, 2006

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Description

Aside from the Poser 4 figures,this was entirely modelled and rendered in LightWave the grass created with Sasquatch/Lite. All textures were created in PSP 7.The name "Flying Circus" given by the Allies refered to German fighter squadrons as they adopted the habit of painting their aircraft in vibrant colours,usually a specific colour was most prevelent to mark each squadron.Aces (three confirmed kills) enjoyed special status and often further personalized their aircraft.The colours helped spotters on the ground confirm their pilots' kills.As well this helped pilots identify their own quickly.The Albatros dominated the air for a period of time.The focus of this image is the Albatros D V.It is a fairly accurate representation of this famous German aircraft from the First World War (1914-1918). The plane in the foreground is regarded as one of a number of aircraft that Manfred von Richthofen flew in his short but famous career. (He was better known as the *Red Baron*) P.S Richthofen was not the only pilot to paint his aircraft all red (notably his famous Fokker Triplane).There are claims that a few allied pilots adopted this colour too. Thanks for looking! :B eaver !

Comments (32)

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tallpindo

5:03AM | Tue, 03 January 2006

It goes with my favorite young boy phrase. "...across the meadow could be heard the sound of aero engines." There was a whole shelf of books about aerial combat in WW-I in the local library. It sat on the window ledge just behind the librarian. I read them one by one. Archie! Flaming onions! It was only later I learned of the obsolescence of the scissors and the ascendance of the chandelle and immelmann. Lightwave seems to have a personality. I like what it says of the artists who use it.

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oooZENOooo

5:20AM | Tue, 03 January 2006

Absolute Spendid! v

BertDes

7:27AM | Tue, 03 January 2006

Very good composition. Excellent.

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zapper1977

8:05AM | Tue, 03 January 2006

I thought for a second or two this was a photo, wow, nice work, amazing, :0]

Georgy

4:40PM | Tue, 03 January 2006

A wonderful image. GREAT WORK!!!!!!

wingnut55

5:19PM | Tue, 03 January 2006

this is very very good, maybe the airfield should be flatter, but i like it a lot. more like this please !

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jocko500

10:04PM | Tue, 03 January 2006

I like this very much

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ambientLight

8:20AM | Wed, 04 January 2006

very photographic to look at, nice modeling, just the scale of the planes to the people behind looks way out, unless the ground crew were all 9 feet tall. Other than that a great image.

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Syrup

10:18AM | Wed, 04 January 2006

Your quite right ambientLight about the ground crew,they were 9 feet tall! smirk.In all the forced perspective involved with this image,I clearly lost perspective.Thanks for spotting the error,I will soon attempt to repost with fault corrected. :B eaver !

bertolli

4:01PM | Wed, 04 January 2006

georgious!

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Drsuess

7:35PM | Wed, 04 January 2006

Great Job! I Didnt even notice the perspective problem. I really like how the wingman in the lower-right is holding on to his hat, Nice! 8) -VOTE-

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drifterlee

9:51PM | Thu, 05 January 2006

This is awesome. I thought it was a photo at first. I bought Lightwave 8 but have not had time to learn it. I need to start!

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Syrup

11:52PM | Thu, 05 January 2006

Okay, I've shrunk down ground crew a little bit. Regretabley only so far as Saquatch-Lite is limited and makes it difficult to graduate the length of grass over the size of my field without great pains.Thank you for all input! :B eaver !

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Anjour

11:38AM | Fri, 06 January 2006

Excellent work and texturing,sky...bravo!!!:o)

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KingPtolemy

5:29AM | Sat, 07 January 2006

Brilliant modeling, concept and designing!!! Happy & Creative New Year

MysteriousEnigma

7:07PM | Sun, 08 January 2006

Great picture. Excellent modeling and layout. About the only thing that keeps taking my attention away from the planes is the tents. They appear 3 sided and the ground on the other side of the tents looks odd. Perhaps the transparency should be changed but otherwise a great piece of work!

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Richardphotos

12:06PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

very excellent work with perfect pov. I like the tents and the whole scene

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ekho

2:04PM | Mon, 16 January 2006

Sweet!!!

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UVDan

8:52PM | Tue, 17 January 2006

Fantastic scene! Perfect. BTW I am no Beaver.

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Moebius87

9:28PM | Tue, 24 January 2006

Wondering how I missed this one... very well done! Looks like a pretty windy day for flying... good hunting.

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TwoPynts

9:57AM | Tue, 14 February 2006

I would have guessed this was a photo until close scrutiny. Gorgeous work!

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cosmoz

1:18AM | Sat, 18 March 2006

An amazing historical graphic, your words really make this so special - well done to the extreme!

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graemeb

7:31PM | Sat, 08 April 2006

I have some good colour plans of how the Albatros were painted with there losange patens and some of the more out there designs etc. I build a model of an Albatros when I used to fly model planes many years ago, it had a 34in wingspan, I wonder where the photos of that are.

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