WW2 Weekend, PA 2008

[Golden_Eagle_FM]

Ivan,

thanks for the nice pics. By looking at the P40 picture I finally understood why even with very high resolution textures, and all the right lighting, shadows reflections, and even metal paint cracks and chipped flakes etc. still the computer generated images of the airplane still misses something and looks too clean.

What is missing is that the metal skin is never a perfect surface. You have slight bumps, and ondulation of the metal foil between the riveted structure. This is normal as the metal skin is also working and participates to the overall strength of the airfarme.
These surface modifications even when very slight do affect the way the light is reflected and our brain gets it. Our eye is a tremendously precise and unforgiving vision tool.

Maybe I miss other things too, like in the real world the paint coat as painted in the 1940's was never perfectly the same on all the airframe etc. etc.

Gold