"Keeping Tabs" by steelrazer

Vue • Aviation • posted on Jun 16, 2012

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A pair of Tupelov Tu-22M3 "Backfire" medium range bombers patrol the coastal waters in the dawn light. In comparison to American or French designs, most Russian aircraft designs look decidedly quirky...in my mind they bear some heritage with the cupolas of Russian Orthodox churches...still, they are intriguing and defintely "bearish". They always seem to have the flavor of brute practical strength...no frills, comrade. TU-22M: Credited to mandun, free at sketchup warehouse. tweaked and polished Cargo Ship Baltic Meridian by mattia marulo also free at sketchup warehouse, a bit of renaming. Vue 6 Infinite and Photoshop Cs3

Comments (10)

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RodS

10:55PM | Sat, 16 June 2012

Well, this definitely kicks some serious behind! Fantastic work - those Backfires look incredible! And those are sketchup models?? falls out of chair I'm just starting out with Vue - had no idea sketchup models could be imported.. Fantastic work!

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huegli

12:10AM | Sun, 17 June 2012

Great idea and composition.

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neiwil

2:50AM | Sun, 17 June 2012

Another excellent piece of aviation art Bill, would be an excellent Tom Clancy book cover, can just see Jack Ryan on the deck of that ship :-) I've often wondered how we came up with the tag 'Backfire' for these, then again I wonder how we come up with many of the strange names attributed to Soviet aircraft......

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Tafkah

6:08AM | Sun, 17 June 2012

Great to see rather "rare" aircrafts in a render. Guess sketchup has a lot of great models still to explore.

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Maxidyne

6:29AM | Sun, 17 June 2012

Talk about great minds Bill. I've just finished something a bit like this except it's Royal Navy. I'm struggling with the ship wake in postwork though. Any tutorials you can direct me to. Great image mate and another aircraft i'll have to add to my collection.

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