Shipbucket for aircraft

By: Gollevainen - 16th January 2008 at 05:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Well funny that you mentioned but I have been thinging the very same idea. There are even more reference linedrawings of planes than there is from ships to use as a base for the drawings.

I've actually have drawn the MiG's "33" as a prototype for my own idea of "planebucket". I'll post it when I get to my flat.

In shipbucket, there is certain rules or more like guides of how to draw things and those could be easily adopted to aircrafts as well. Biggest issue is the scale. Shipbucekt uses 2 pix=1 foot scale which is way too small for planes. All the helicopters for example are drawn in this scale and you can see how small they are. The scale needs to be bigger for this.

By: MadRat - 17th January 2008 at 02:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

So you're saying make a resting place for views of planes (real or imaginary) but in the exact same scale?

By: Iranian F-14A - 17th January 2008 at 05:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Hmm,sounds like a good idea to me.Assume we could add helicopters to the mix as well?

By: Gollevainen - 17th January 2008 at 16:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Here's a prototype drawing which I made a while ago. Don't mind the colours, they got screwed up due the format change.

Is this scale too small or too large? Obinions and comments appriciated

By: Iranian F-14A - 17th January 2008 at 17:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Here's a prototype drawing which I made a while ago. Don't mind the colours, they got screwed up due the format change.

Is this scale too small or too large? Obinions and comments appriciated

In my opinion,it looks great,maybe make it a little bigger,but the way it is now looks pretty good.Colors aren't too bad either.

By: mobryan - 18th January 2008 at 00:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Here's a prototype drawing which I made a while ago. Don't mind the colours, they got screwed up due the format change.

Is this scale too small or too large? Obinions and comments appriciated

I also vote for a bit bigger, maybe 10-15%, and 3 view, for sure.

Matt

By: Gollevainen - 19th January 2008 at 17:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Well there are some factors which favours the smaller scale however.
Most important is the drawing technique. As its done by MS paint or other bitmap type drawing program, each line is and should be one pixel wide. This requires that the drawings cannot be too small, but also not too large as othervice the lines gets "too thin"

But I will consult other shipbucket drawers if they have any ideas and technique suggestions.

By: Gollevainen - 20th January 2008 at 19:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Well here's scaled up version of the same plane (note that it is in my imaginary Novgorods colours)

The scale is now 1 pix=0.04 m. I noticed that the drawing is now bit too undetailed but thats only becouse the orginal linedrawing had none what so ever and this is simply scaled up version from the 1pix=0.05m scale version (the one that I posted above)

So is this large enough?

By: MadRat - 20th January 2008 at 21:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

I like the idea of two standards; 1pix = .025m and 1pix = .04m being my candidates for an acceptable standard.

This allows for enjoyable viewing of both fighter sized and jumbo-jet sized renditions.

By: Gollevainen - 21st January 2008 at 08:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Well the question is then, Who is up to the task? I can draw few once in a while but the ships takes most of my drawing time at the moment and in near future.

I can however draw one or two "instruction" images and draft some ease guides of how to draw and then perhaps anyone can do it

By: MadRat - 21st January 2008 at 15:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

You got a good solid idea there. A few of us can probably make one or two, too, and see where the community takes it from there... :)

By: Jezza - 26th January 2008 at 02:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

fantastic idea indeed:)

By: gg56 - 14th August 2008 at 11:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

This is a great idea! Has it gone any farther? Decision on scale or guidelines?

By: Gollevainen - 14th August 2008 at 12:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

I'm being too tied up to the shipbucket so I haven't had any time to focus on planes...

By: perfectgeneral - 18th August 2008 at 03:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Two buckets.

This is a great idea! Has it gone any farther? Decision on scale or guidelines?

I would recommend two photobucket main folders on the site. One for large aircraft (1 pix = 0.05m/2 inch) and one for smaller aircraft (1 pix = 0.025m/1 inch). The inch values are not exact so it would be best to use them as a guide and stick to metric for the standard. Side, front and top views would be standard, underside and/or back views would be for extra credit/detail.

The main folders should be split into Never-were/Experimental/Prototype (prop and jet sub folders), pre and WW1, Interbellum, WW2, postwar props, early-1965 jets, 1966-1990 jets, Modern aircraft (Civil and Military subfolders).

I would recommend blank papers (a4 and a3) with the scale already marked available to download onto Paint.

By: gg56 - 20th August 2008 at 10:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

I like this suggestion. 1 pix = 0.025m/1 inch. Can we set this as the standard for this forum? I would add Alternate Universe to the Main folders though.