THE ARMOR PLATE ARRIVES

I got up at 06:30.  I love the early mornings.  Makes the day nice and long.

This morning I created the armor plate that goes immediately behind the pilot.  When they said in novels that they could feel the strike of bullets against the armor plate it was because the bucket seat is right against the plate.  The plate was apparently a hefty chunk of steel plate just cut to shape with a power saw.  Straight across the top just at the top of the head rest and straight down just inside the cutout in the bulkhead for rearward visibility.

I also re-did the antenna and insulator.  The antenna mast was not round but more oval and it was not straight sided but tapered as a curve and pretty tiny at the top.  The insulator was a frustrated cone.  (Frustrum of a cone).  (The idiot spell checker doesn’t understand frustrum.) 

I am kind-of liking the dirty German camo color with the mottling even though it is nothing like the Brit Spitfire camo scheme.  If I ever figure out how to eliminate the one n-gon that totally messes up the UV mapping for the fuselage I will give C4D “body paint” a try with an educated guess at the shape and color of the rigidly adhered to paint scheme.  (If and when.)  I can delete the offending polygon and put in a totally unrelated substitute as a stand along but somehow that is not hard enough for me.  There just be a way.  Surely.

I find the “U,V” thing amusing.  Since 3D axis are named X, Y, Z by convention, the mapping of 3D onto 2D used U, V from U, V, W, X, Y, Z.  Poor old W got skipped.  Could it have been reserved for mapping 4D into 3D?  Was there some reason for it or was the “inventor’s” wife’s names Eunice Victoria?  J  J