The Defenders by porsimo
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The history bit behind this:
When the Red Army's major offensive begun on June 9th / 10th, 1944 on Karelian Isthmus, Finnish airforce had 48 "intercept capable" fighters (16 Brewster B-239 and 32 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-2 & G-6 fighters of which most of the G-2's were badly outworn) against approx. 1000 Soviet planes (including bombers & ground attack planes).
During June, new batches of G-6's arrived from Germany and the top squadrons, HLeLv 34 and HLeLv 24 were equipped with these. Old G-2's were not taken out of use but given to other squadrons like HLeLv 28 formerly flying with Moranes.
During the decisive battles of Tali-Ihantala, Vuosalmi and Bay of Viborg, HLeLv 34 & 24 were mostly used to escort bombers. For their merit, no bombers were lost to enemy fighters when escorted by these two fighter squadrons.
This pic had quite ambitious goals and took again a fair amount of work, and although it didn't quite turn out the way I wanted, I was relatively pleased with it. Not so sure about it today anymore... (looks a bit cheesy to me nowadays).
It's made of four photos (sky, woods, broken tree and a pic where the soldiers are painted from) and a bunch of screenshots (planes and tanks) with handpainted elements like the trench and then heavily edited.
Thanks for looking!
Ps. If someone is interested, some info in a nutshell about FAF is here: http://www.porsimo.net/fb/info/
Comments (7)
mooreno
nicely done, thanks for the history on this.
debbielove
No! Don't pull yourself down. It's another cracker. The only (minor) thing I could point out would be that the ground in front of the trenches looks a bit 'wavy'? The rest is top stuff. And if you put together that many pictures and did that amount of painting all the more credit to you. Make 'em last...... Rob.
Mousson
Very impressing work!
dbrv6
Not a trivial undertaking. As said above you did a very good job here. I like how the horizon and formations are presented very much.
bmac62
Excellent image. I can only begin to appreciate the amount of work done here but you've succeeded illustrating the few against the many. Bill
Emil-arts
Excellent POV, really makes a difference.
Naoo
WOW COOL