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Poser Aviation posted on Jul 15, 2014
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Getting the lighting right was my intention for this render. It's a moonlit night with the brighter spots illuminated by overhead lights in the hangar, or light poles out in the launch area. The headlights were post-processed in Corel PhotoPaint using the Luce plugin. The faded old photo look is created by an overlay. I wanted to achieve the feeling of a secret military installation. Most of the preparations are finished with the crew completing a final inspection. The pilot may be getting some last minute orders from the officers in the foreground. The figures are M3, M4, and Apollo Maximus in WW2 period costumes from various Rendo Marketplace sets. The military hangar is from OnTarget3D. The two vehicles are adh3D's WW2 Steyr command car and Kubelwagen. The saucer is my Haunebu II. Composed and rendered in Poser Pro 2014.

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Comments (4)


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steelrazer

11:46AM | Tue, 15 July 2014

Nice work on a very complex scene. Lighting never turns out to be as easy at it looks before you start!

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giulband

3:08PM | Tue, 15 July 2014

very good work !!

Flash3030

3:49PM | Tue, 15 July 2014

You know I think you are missing something. You should put one of your ladies dressed in a flight suit as the test pilot. She could be Hanna Reitsch. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator, Nazi test pilot, and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records still stand in 2012. In the 1960s she founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah. Third Reich In 1937 Reitsch was posted to the Luftwaffe testing centre at Rechlin-Lärz Airfield by Ernst Udet. She was a test pilot on the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka and Dornier Do 17 projects. Reitsch was the first female helicopter pilot and one of the few pilots to fly the Focke-Achgelis Fa 61, the first fully controllable helicopter. Her flying skill, desire for publicity and photogenic qualities made her a star of Nazi party propaganda. Physically she was petite in stature, very slender with blonde hair, blue eyes and a "ready smile". She appeared in Nazi Party propaganda throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1938 she made nightly flights of the Fa 61 helicopter inside the Deutschlandhalle at the Berlin Motor Show. At the outbreak of war in 1939 Reitsch was asked to fly many of Germany's latest designs, among them the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet as well as several larger bombers on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting barrage balloon cables. A crash on her fifth Me 163 flight badly injured Reitsch, who reportedly insisted on writing her post-flight report before falling unconscious and spending five months in hospital. Reitsch became Adolf Hitler's favourite pilot and was one of only two women awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class during World War II. She became close to former fighter pilot and high-ranking Luftwaffe officer Robert Ritter von Greim. During the winter of 1943 to 1944, she was assigned to the development of suicide aircraft and, under the command of SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, was the first founding member of the SS-Selbstopferkommando Leonidas (Leonidas Squadron). This project, in which the pilots flew manned bombs and died during the mission, similarly to the later use of Tokkōtai (or "Kamikaze") by the Japanese, was proposed by Hitler on 28 February 1944. It is probable that the idea originated with Reitsch during her testing of the Messerschmitt Me 163 in 1942: she was the first to volunteer for the newly formed unit. The programme met with considerable resistance from the Luftwaffe high command and was never activated: even Hitler was initially reluctant to accept its use. The unit was disbanded one year later. V-1 The film Operation Crossbow began a popular myth that early guidance and stabilisation problems with the V-1 flying bomb were solved during a daring test flight by Reitsch in a V-1 modified for manned operation. However, in her autobiography Fliegen, mein Leben, Reitsch recalled other test pilots had been killed or gravely injured while trying to land the piloted version of the V1 (known as the Reichenberg), so she made test flights late in the war to learn why and found the craft's extremely high stall speed was thwarting the pilots, who had no experience landing at extremely high speeds. Reitsch's background with the very fast and dangerous-to-land Me 163, along with simulated landings at a safe high altitude, led her to a successful landing of the Reichenberg at over 200 km/h (120 mph).

Michael_C

4:13PM | Tue, 15 July 2014

Thanks, Flash. Interesting information. I was looking for quasi-historical renders and this supports that. I'll consider it for a future image.

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Diemamker

7:11PM | Tue, 15 July 2014

Awesome work!!!... can't wait to see more!


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