Decaff's Garage

[Dragon_Mech]

And I've had the F-35 in mind

hmm... where to put my icon.......

[Swift]

F-35B Test flight with the new pilot and cockpit.
*snip*
A few more tweaks and the base B model will be complete.

gimme ._.

[decaff_42]

A WIP of the first test F-35 I'm painting up. The flags were a pain to line up together (all one decal which took time) but a fairly straight forward process.

Still some more decals to add. Reworking Zack's F-35 program decal to remove the layers and flatten the mesh into a single sheet of vertices.

The tails on the F-35 first of each variant are harder to find good decals of. This was possible the easiest to find.

[decaff_42]

Okay, Added some decals (Thanks Zack) and the nose probe thingie.

[Turbofan]

The name says "Turbofan" but the mind says "WHOA!!". Way cool.

[Zack]

Straight Fire tho

[Neocon]

*Note to self: Don't walk too slowly when there is a F-35 pilot behind me in line.*

Seriously, that thing coming out of the nose looks like it would be painful.

[decaff_42]

The name says "Turbofan" but the mind says "WHOA!!". Way cool.

-Well it technically is a Turbofan engine...just with some accessories.

Finding a good reference image was really hard for the "BF-01". Eventually I settled on a photo from near perfect side-view and went with that, rather than deal with incorrect "decal" images from who knows where. The DT-II seal (from the USS Wasp) was a really low-res image that I was able to work with (~250x250).

[Turbofan]

The name says "Turbofan" but the mind says "WHOA!!". Way cool.

-Well it technically is a Turbofan engine...just with some accessories.

Oh yes, but I was referring to my general leaning more towards civilian aircraft. I'm not known for liking combat aircraft much but your work is a thing of awesomeness.

[decaff_42]

Finally got it on my second attempt. The first one was way too detailed and I was on track for 2k + vertices. This guy (pun intended) has 1100 vertices, which is about what the BF-01 and BF-05 seals had.

[Swift]

This is looking even more amazing by the day, gotta be by far the most detailed aircraft I've ever seen in YS.

[decaff_42]

Took a lot longer than I expected, but the CAG for VFA-101 is complete!

[lorDuckFeet]

^^ I normally don't get any attracted by Military Jets, but this ... Look Gorgeous ^^
Awesome work Decaff!

[YSFan]

What about the 747-8?

[decaff_42]

The interesting thing I noticed with AF-01 was that the tails are a dark blue, not a black/dark grey like I thought originally. This took a lot less time to create since I had the flag, wing and nose decals from BF-01 and CF-01. The tail was a modified version of the lighting bolt from CF-01's tails. They cover the same area, but AF-01 has that white outline which complicated things slightly. I nearly forgot the white stripes at the wingtips. I'm not sure what they are for besides looking cool, but who knows.


I'll have to get a shot with all three lined up together at some point

[Neocon]

I believe those are similar to the racing, or "go faster", stripes on automobiles. They make it go faster.

[NajmiCreative]

Besides from basic -A,-B and -C models,will it also includes some other foreign variants like -I and -SG?
so far the -I variant already exist but the Singaporean one (-SG) not yet or it would be -A variant...

[decaff_42]

I'm planning to do some other paint schemes from the other countries in the F-35 program. On the top of my list is UK and Israel. I've found some great fictional paint schemes based upon the current IAF F-16/F-15 brown tan green paint schemes that I'd like to try my hand at.

After starting to look at the A model more with the AF-01 painting, I realized my initial suspicion that the A model engine nozzle was too long.

Before:

After:


I updated the intake warnings to have the mesh of the text built into the line.


I will be retrofitting things to painted models.

[decaff_42]

WIP for the Mark 2 Cockpit


I've still got more panels on the right arm-rest area and also in the center console area.

[VNAF ONE]

The YS United States Air Force Air Combat Command F-35A Demonstration Team awaits your beautiful work