Thanks all for your replies, help and encouragement!
Bruce, thanks very much for your “niggly” comments! This is precisely the sort of feedback I’m looking for!
There is indeed a fillet in front of the tailplane now (well spotted!) and I will remove it promptly. This was modelled after seeing them on KA114, but I was already suspicious about it as indeed I haven’t seen it on wartime photos. This is mostly because I can’t find any of clear enough resolution! I’m aware it’s always dangerous to use modern restorations for reference and always cross-check with wartime photos, but I have a real shortage of good-resolution wartime photos for these kind of details. But after some more digging tonight I finally found this photo which indeed shows no fillet. Then again, with this photo I started doubting again…!
While on the topic, KA114 also has a fillet on the wing root. Does this belong on wartime Mosquitoes too? I can’t seem to positively say yay or nay but most Mosquito photos show a ridge of some sort. As a side note, while on the topic of KA114’s wings, oddly enough I noticed this aircraft has a slightly larger dihedral than it should have according to the DH spec! I went with the specifications as this seems to match wartime photos well.
Surface detail like the fabric strips will be added as a “bump map” rather than geometry (it’ll even have the zig-zag edges). I’ll probably do the same with the various gun/access panels as modelling them is time consuming and doesn’t necessarily look better.
I will fix the tail light fairing, thanks for pointing that out! At last I found a good photo of it tonight. Do you happen to know the colour of the lights? Is the one in the photo authentic (the asymmetric top light seems to belong to a wing tip perhaps)? And do you know the reason why some have two, some one upper light only and some one lower light only?
Neilly, many thanks for your comments and the cockpit photos!
The trim tab push rods will indeed be added still. I tend to put them off for as long as I can!
Hampden98, polycount is a few million and counting. But that’s after subdiving the model twice for close-up smoothness.
In comparison my old Mustang is 150K tris. The biggest difference is that on the Mustang I didn’t model piano hinges!!! 🙂
Also the Brownings with their perforated cooling jackets take up many polys, each one being 15K before and 236K tris after subdivision.
Mike, I’m using Max, indeed on a 64-bit machine. I bought a new system last summer as my old one (2005-vintage) was in serious trouble with detail like this!
Rhino uses NURBS while in Max I work with polygons, so I’m afraid I can offer you little advice. I did try NURBS and Rhino on various occasions but always returned to polygons as I much prefer working with those.
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