Spitfire Griffon Engine Template W.I.P.
 

After years of using Templates very kindly provided by Fly By Shooter for making my "Griffon Hacked" Spitfires I've finally decided to make my own.
Granted I had to modify the templates I used but this time I decided to cause Myself some serious problems by making my own template 100% original (including internals) right down to the last rivet.

It's going to take me a long time no doubt since I have only ever made a template once before with a Ki-84 Sea Fury I made so updates on this one will be scarce I would imagine.

I started this about a month ago but forgot to post it here :(

Anyway here are some progress pics from from various stages over the past month up until where I am now with it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ateProject.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...itMKXIVWIP.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tMKXIVWIP1.jpg

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That's a lot of rivets! Looking great Nightshifter.

Very nice as usual Nightshifter. What is FBS doing these days?

Very sharp.

Thanks guys, Yeah Joe that is a LOT of rivets, have done abit more and toned them down a lot since that image but am currently working on the fuselage rivets (joy).

As for FBS, I have seen him posting more of his work at the M4T site - jaw dropping stuff as usual :)

Progress is going a bit faster now that the rivets are complete :)

Story so far:

Panel lines complete
Internals complete
Bolts Complete
Rivets Complete
Weathering - W.I.P.
First paint Scheme - undecided

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...MKXIVWIP12.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...MKXIVWIP16.jpg

Great work!

I'm just working on a Spit-template after I completely reworked Foo'bars 109-template. A very good template, but I never felt comfortable with various points, so in the meanwhile I've completely redone the whole thing - bolt by bolt.

My personal feeling is, though, that bolts and panel-lines are mostly overdone. It's good this is up to one's personal preference, but I oriented on original pictures and tried to find a way between a realistic look and somewhat more eyecandy 3D-effects. The problems is, though, that you mostly see the metal surrounding the bolts, due to their bent shape and different reflections, rather than the bolts themselves. This is my result:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...iac/109WIP.jpg


For my Spit-template, I use pictures like this to adjust strength of panellines and stuff:
http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/MOF-2/M-SpitM14-2.jpg