New updates for: IL-2 - June 16, 2022
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another blog in 2022. Now that I'm working and studying, my time for Blogs decreased to some occasions and some weekends. I'm not sure what the future holds after my work at the public health center ends in August of this year. But one thing is certain: Until they call me effectively, I need to dedicate a good part of my time to the next civil service exams.
For the next days, I'll been studying for two upcoming civil service exams that will be applied in July 3rd and August 14. The exam that will be applied on July 3rd is for the education department - precisely for school archive clerk; while the second one that is scheduled for August 14 is for the administrative department - the job vacancy I subscribed is for the town hall clerk. Now the only to do is getting the material for study.
Enough of that, let's go to the Blog. For today, I'm going to show you what I did on the Soviet Ilyushin IL-2 Sturmovik in these last days.
Ilyushin IL-2 M3 Sturmovik:
I made some changes on the IL-2 landing gear. I adjusted its position to fit with the main housing - based on the photos I have of the Soviet ground-attack plane. In addition, I made some small changes on the wings and the carriage - with the latter one having a considerable portion of its lower section removed to make the doors.
The wheels don't fully enter on the carriage when the landing gear retracts during take off. Based on the photos and video-games with the Ilyushin IL-2, I had to adjust the vertices of the doors and carriage to fit the wheels in. So far, it's looking good.
New metal links were made for the landing gear along some air intakes (located behind the Mikulin AM-38F engine exhaustion outlets). The cannons, machine guns, intake filter and the Soviet Air Force roundels had been re-positioned according to some photos. Also, the oil radiator has been reworked. For now this plane is almost ready.
Finally, the iconic За Родину! (For the Motherland!) has been included to the plane. I made it using Gimp 2. At first, I would use Easy Paint SAI to change a little bit. However, I decided to go back with Gimp for that. The words were typed, then I painted in a handmade-style.
I started painting the Soviet plane with two different materials - the main one and one dedicated for the masks.
Now the question: Why 'masks'?
The reason for using masks is to avoid using the main material to paint it in order to use Gimp for corrections and creating different layers that I can modify without messing the project or file. Different from the projects like the FW 190, Ju 87 Stuka, BF 109, Macchi C.202, Macchi C.205 and Me 262 where I painted with the main material, the IL-2 texture has been made with different material files. For one thing, it is good.
Now that the fuselage has been made, the next part are the wings.
After correcting the textures, the last thing to do is rigging the plane. At first, I thought using the P-38 Lightning, despite having the bones for the second rudder and propeller. Then I did it.
Similar to the fuselage, the wings were also made with a mask material to be imported into the main material. Although some gaps appeared, I tried my best to fit the painting from the wing with the fuselage in order to correct the divergence.
The carriage doors remained green as you noticed on these renders. They were models for the moment I would append the Armature from one of my projects and attach it to IL-2 Sturmovik.
Amazing. The Ilyushin IL-2 is now rigged and has the components painted properly. I adjusted the Armature by removing the unused bones from the P-38 Lightning project and reorganizing it to fit into the Soviet plane. The doors are from the main plane itself. I painted the smoke from the engine outlets with a dark red color. Yet, some people might think it could be blood. I may attend this detail later.
Aside from some small corrections and the addition of new components like the flaps, the markings for the weapons range, the pilot and gunner seats, the instrument panel, the gun sights, the bombs and the rockets, this aircraft is virtually complete. I know there was some units that counted internal bomb compartment for bombing operations, but I won't make it - leaving only the external bombs and the rockets as the main payload for ground-attack raids.
As always, I'll share some renders for fun of the IL-2 Sturmovik.
Incredible, huh? I wonder if I'd make an animation where this Soviet plane would cause havoc among German platoons and battalions - inspired in some stories and the original reports of Soviet pilots that flew IL-2s during WW2.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you enjoy this Blog. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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