Duel in the clouds by porsimo
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Description
First, about the insignia for those who may not be aware of its history:
The blue swastika on white circle was the national insignia of Finnish airforce between 1918 - 1944. It originates back to the Finland's civil war in 1918 when a Swedish count Eric von Rosen had painted the symbol on the wings of the plane he flew to Finland to be donated to the "White army" (legal government's troops). This plane was virtually the beginning of the Finnish Airforce and the symbol used by count von Rosen was adopted to a national insignia. It was never in any way related to the Nazism and the insignia was changed to the current white & blue roundel after the so called Continuation war.
That's about it. Now, about the pic:
This is actually a couple of years old and this kind of images were my "addiction" before I got sucked into the 3D world :)
The planes are screenshots from a flight simulator combined with a photo I took and heavily edited to smoothen the edges and to add highlights and shadows.
I recommend to view the full pic.
And thank you for reading this far ;)
EDIT: Forgot to add that the image depicts a duel between Finnish and Soviet aces somewhere above Karelian Isthmus in Summer 1944.
Comments (14)
MagikUnicorn
HISTORY & ACTION *** A W E S O M N E S
wingnut55
very good, dramatic pov. also very Il2 screenshot, but i mean that as a compliment.
porsimo
Thank you! They are IL-2 screenshots by the way ;)
Merlin_Studios
Nice image with a great PoV.
Shiroyama
indeed, very dramatic, and cool! thanks for the history, too.
deci6el
Wow, well, great amazing screenshots and very interesting story about the blue swastika. It's funny how branding does just exactly that, burns an image in, to see a logo changed like that really sticks out.
airpower1
Great action scene, very intense!
ollienorthie
great image
Winterclaw
I knew that the nazis weren't the first people to use the swastika, but I didn't know Finland also used it for a time. Nice picture.
debbielove
Man! You have got to dig some more of these up!!! They are REALLY epic images. Don't care if it's a screenshot! It looks the fabulous! Rob.
Emil-arts
A real sense of action. I agree with Rob, don't worry that it's a screenshot, it looks great.
Osper
Nice. Advantage 0.
JLyons
Even for screen shots it is very well put together and tells an interesting story, nice work!
Penters
Can't believe they are screenshots....think I will have to look at my Il2 again...fantastic work