What's good for the Goose... by Briney
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Description
Ah, the 1930's. When boats flew and flying-fish cowered!
A 30 hour render in the clouds to inaugurate "Cutter's Goose." Evidently, Jake Cutter was a launch customer. The prototype Grumman G21 Goose Amphibian (~12m Length, ~15m wingspan) first flew in mid 1937, Indeed, the paint was probably still sticky if the 1938 setting of the 80's TV series "Tales of the Gold Monkey" is to be believed. On the subject of "early adopters," whoever has been awaiting Jake's latest incursion into Japan's League of Nations Mandated Territories seems to have also bought up big on all the latest (or soon to be latest) in naval aviation.
Rendered in Vue 8 Esprit
Assets
Grumman G21 "Goose" modelled in Shade 10.5 textured as "Cutter's Goose"
plus my models of the Yokosuka E14Y1 (ShareCG) and the early model Kawanishi Type 97 (H6K2-L) flying boat)
Thanks for viewing and comments...
Comments (9)
spdskool
Well worked and rendered.
debbielove
Great looking Render, love the way the clouds drift over the aircraft partially hiding them.. Well done on that. Rob
steelrazer
Terrific work, Brian! Sweet looking Goose, to say nothing of your other work.
UVDan
Hooray for all your sea planes!! A beautiful render.
Maxidyne
All of these are great looking models. Wonderful atmosphere to the image too.
Osper
Nice job! Looks like he needs some bigger ingines!!!
neiwil
30 hrs!!!! I'd never be that patient....well worth it though, brilliant image with great 'atmos' (but that probably accounts for about 28hrs of the render).
ratfugel
30 hours!Something wrong there. My Sub Patrol was only 5 minutes. Mind you I have just built myself a rather fast and heavy memoried 'puter. It sounds as though the clouds had something to do with it to drag the time out like that. If it were me I'd do the same pic without the clouds and see what happened. Apart from all that, I like the info and the models. This aviation thing is all about realism. For what it's worth, think in terms of who's up in the air taking the shot. Helps no end with the placing of the aircraft.
AliceFromLake
30 hours of rendering... boy that's insane... :-) The result is fantastic. 100 points... ehm.. there are only five... sorry. ;-)