TIME FOR CAMOUFLAGE

I used the new version of ILLUSTRATOR to trace out camouflage patterns from 3-view drawings of a Spitfire on the web.  I searched around and found a sunlit image from the RAF museum and sampled the colors with the ILLUSTRATOR eye-dropper.  The spline-draw tool (curve) in ILLUSTRATOR is much better than the pen tool but also about as obtuse and non-intuitive (but then that is probably just me).  I took the JPEG version of the ILLUSTRATOR camouflage pattern and put it onto a texture in Cinema 4D and dropped that onto the symmetric wing object knowing that it would be (improperly) mirrored onto the opposite wing.  I have not coped with the fillet or ailerons that have to be handled separately or the side views of the fuselage.  It will all come as I slowly learn this multi-program monster.  For now I am ticked as much as I ever get tickled.  I know I am doing this in a not very efficient manner but I am learning.  This is but a start.

Thanks again go to Anders Lejczak http://www.colacola.se for donating non-commercial use of bits of his files.  I hope I can repay the favor someday and I will re-created anything borrowed from scratch.

+Dale Jackson +Åke Jonsson +harley harp