Bluesky, concluding the Yak-1 and new models in Sketchfab - December 4th, 2024
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog in 2024. We are now on December 4th - approaching the end of 2024.
I know. I've been absent without writing anything new here. Job, studies, playing video-games, watching some YouTube videos, listening to some musics and doing my chores at some moments decreased my spare-time dedicated to Blogs.
I'm now working on the new role as health community agent and now, my colleagues and I are visiting the families as part of our job to improve the health quality in our community and town. Things are looking good and we're enjoying in our new role.
The 8th semester is finished. Another thing I won't be bothered with. After the second university, I'll give a break for good.
And, again, new Nightwave chapter has been released and, as always, my brother and I reached to the level 30. Despite we skipped some challenges, we managed to perform most of the daily and weekly ones at our reserved moments. Man, Nightwave is so repetitive and so boring.
Enough of that. Let's go. For this Blog, I'm going to share you some news and more images of the Yakovlev Yak-1.
I recently created a new profile on Bluesky. I learned the existence of that social media when some Twitter (now X) users started to migrate to that platform, which was designed by the former Twitter developers. Basically, Bluesky is what Twitter used to be before the acquisition by Elon Musk.
And, when X was blocked in Brazil in September this year, a considerable number of Brazilian users moved to the new social media as an alternative. Although I didn't mind of having several days without Twitter, I really wish it didn't had to go to that point.
Still, Twitter is back online and, now with Bluesky, I plan to share my artistic works - from 2D to 3D and my fanfics to the new social media. There are some restrictions I will imposed, like not following anything related to politics, celebrities, games of chance, promo, ads, AI arts and bots / fake accounts with girl pictures.
Seriously, I prefer to use X on Brave - on my computer or on my cellphone. By the app itself, you're asking to be bombarded with lots of suggested profiles or ads. When you want silence it / block it, some of them don't lead to the profile itself. It leads to a Tweet or to your App Store or to your web browser and it's annoying. That's why I prefer to access it with Brave.
Back to Bluesky, I'll leave the link at the end of this Blog. You'll find some nice content there, just like in Twitter / X. Unlike some people that left the old social media - claiming it became a shadow of its former self with Musk running it; I'll stay there for as long as I can.
Now, time for the Yak-1:
The Yak-1 received a major update on its textures. Especially the wings, the fuselage, the aluminum sheets and the metal grids on the air intakes. Although it was a bit tricky to combine the blueprints from the Wikipedia for the Yak-1 and the painting schematics from Eduard, Tamiya or any build-up kits for the Yak-1b, I managed to make the lower side of the Soviet air fighter.
Like my Lavochkin La-5, La-7 and the Hawker Hurricane, I used different colors for the Metal and Specular to simulate the fabric, wood and metal surfaces since it was built with a mixture of materials. Yakovlev designed his aircraft based on economy of essential materials and construction time. Unlike most WW2 planes that were built in aluminum, the Yak-1, the La-5 and some other Soviet planes used different materials as the shortage of alloy were evident from 1940 to 1942.
The decals were made with Blender painting tools - just like my other projects. I tried my best to make some wearing markings around the upper wings, fuselage and propeller spinner. The gases had to be adjusted with Gimp.
With the aircraft finished, I uploaded the model to Sketchfab. The next model is the Yak-1b, based in Lydia Litvyak - the famous Soviet woman ace to fly a Yak-1 during WW2, nicknamed as the White Lily / Rose of Stalingrad.
Link to the model in my Sketchfab:
Speaking on Sketchfab, I uploaded more planes to my gallery of 3D models, despite some of them still in development / correction.
The models are:
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| Hawker Tempest Mk V https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hawker-tempest-mk-v-clostermann-cd7bee38ccff4e5ab602e4fd1b9d6df5 |
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| Junkers Ju 87 B-2 Stuka https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/junkers-ju-87-b-2-0ed473e45ff4472482762982549d2745 |
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| Heinkel He 111 H-3 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/heinkel-he-111-h-3-8e0c3a86e50c4700b5e95cd7bc852217 |
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| Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-7 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/messerschmitt-bf-110-c-7-9bb7657e2ef84338a70ae7dff791089d |
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| Macchi C.202 Folgore https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/macchi-c202-folgore-c8de95d932c74f74a56c06fcbb5e663a |
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| Macchi C.205 Veltro https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/macchi-c205-veltro-9776369ed2214802a8af13d5290bb62e |
Impressive, huh? My gallery is presenting you a good variety of WW2 planes. At the moment I'm not going to upload the Lavochkin La-7, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the Messerschmitt Me 262, the Gloster Meteor, the Fiat G.55 Centauro, the Junkers Ju 88 and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as they are still in development. Also, the Bf 110 is lacking an Armature. I'll add it later after I conclude the Tempest's and the Stuka's Bump textures.
I plan to bring more tanks, vehicles, firearms and perhaps other subject beyond World War 2. Although I enjoy military content, I also have interest of making civilian vehicles and buildings.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you like this Blog. Let us hope this year bring us new content and something different from the usual. 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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