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Post by pjw4118 on Dec 9, 2010 20:51:37 GMT 12
What artists we have on the forum. Can you do the same to me with smaller guts , more hair and a glint in the eye. Dave , thanks for a photo of " mine" making it to the header board. Cheers Peter
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2010 21:04:08 GMT 12
More things I notice in the photo above that we're discussing, see how many people are crowding the terminal building awaiting the Clipper's arrival.
Also that building that can be seen above the cockpit of the plane, about an inch up, behind the terminal, I assume that's the Auckland Railway Station? It is big too. Fascinating photos.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2010 21:08:16 GMT 12
What artists we have on the forum. Can you do the same to me with smaller guts , more hair and a glint in the eye. Dave , thanks for a photo of " mine" making it to the header board. Cheers Peter I hope you don't mind the header, it's something a bit novel. I think the one I did of the Boeing Clipper alighting at sunset turned out surprisingly well. I've just done one of your Sikorsky's on the other thread too. If you have any lovely sharp images of interesting Bomber Command aircraft, I'd be keen to have a go at colourising one for a header too. the photos have to be nice and sharp to colour up well, and the bigger the file the better. Email me if you have any bombers with nose art, etc, you'd like to see in colour.
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Post by shorty on Dec 9, 2010 21:18:07 GMT 12
No, the roof is the wrong shape for the Railway Station, the station building is in the shape of a "U". (I used to work on the top floor of the station in the early 60s)
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 9, 2010 21:32:05 GMT 12
Remember this photograph? You can see the railway station in the picture. Someone posted it to a thread at this group a couple of years ago.
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Post by shorty on Dec 9, 2010 21:52:02 GMT 12
Thats rather interesting, if you look at the photo of the SikorskyAuckland2 where it is moored just off thewalkway you can see in the background the structure for raising and lowering the ramp for the car ferry. yet in the colour photo just posted it is to the right of the boat that is out in the water. Therefore the Sikorsky must have arrived at the area nearest to the pink freezing works building and not the area where the terminals were subsquently built?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2010 22:02:49 GMT 12
It would be good to find a 1940 street map of downtown Auckland with all the businesses marked on it. I wonder if they had such a thing back then. The Wises Guides were very good with all the business and home phone numbers, but you need a map to match things up.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2010 22:06:04 GMT 12
That excellent hand-coloured aerial photo was from the thread that Terry had when he was looking for details on the terminal for his card model he was to produce. I tried to find that thread recently, I looked for about an hour, and had no luck at all. Can anyone here find it? there were about five pages of photos like this.
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Post by hairy on Dec 9, 2010 22:26:13 GMT 12
It is amazing to me how the Auckland War Memorial Museum was so imposing on the Auckland skyline back then, perhaps moreso than the Sky Tower is today. Does anyone know what the other big building right of the museum and closer to the cost is? It's quite large. I first thought perhaps it was the hospital, but thta wasn't there then I don't think. Hi Dave, it is actually two buildings, on the right (and behind) is the Wallace Block at Auckland Hospital (Outlined in RED below) which was built in 1923 (demolished recently) and on the left is the Heards building (Outlined in YELLOW below) which was built 1921 on the corner of Parnell road and Ruskin St. which is still in use after renovation.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2010 22:53:20 GMT 12
Great stuff Marcus, thanks for that.
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Post by strikemaster on Dec 10, 2010 0:12:06 GMT 12
Aha, I see the first image is a composite. I've been colouring comics for a couple of years and have to say that's outstanding work Dave. Post away, mate.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 0:37:25 GMT 12
I used a piece of modern shoreline just to get some natural trees, but the rest of the photo of ZK-AMC is hand coloured (with Photoshop).
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Post by pjw4118 on Dec 10, 2010 15:53:36 GMT 12
You have quite a talent Dave and I am sure that there is a market out there for you as the colouring is so natural. So feel free to "do" any of my postings. I will have a look at my BCA photos and find one that should come up well , possibly one that missed out being in Kiwis Do Fly.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 10, 2010 16:40:12 GMT 12
That excellent hand-coloured aerial photo was from the thread that Terry had when he was looking for details on the terminal for his card model he was to produce. I tried to find that thread recently, I looked for about an hour, and had no luck at all. Can anyone here find it? there were about five pages of photos like this. I located it about three months ago. I was trying to find that aerial photograph of Mechanics Bay in 1940 to show to someone, so I spent about half-an-hour searching and found it, then saved the photo to my hard-drive. I'll take a look later Dave and see if I can locate it again. It isn't actually that far back, because someone posted something to it I think about the beginning of this year. I have a sneaking suspicion it may be in the General messageboard, although I may be wrong.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 17:28:17 GMT 12
I wonder where Terry is these days, he'd be liking all these photos. Here's another one of the coloured up shots... thanks for the encouragement guys on these. Maybe I should make up some postcards or something?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 10, 2010 17:41:56 GMT 12
That excellent hand-coloured aerial photo was from the thread that Terry had when he was looking for details on the terminal for his card model he was to produce. I tried to find that thread recently, I looked for about an hour, and had no luck at all. Can anyone here find it? there were about five pages of photos like this. I located it about three months ago. I was trying to find that aerial photograph of Mechanics Bay in 1940 to show to someone, so I spent about half-an-hour searching and found it, then saved the photo to my hard-drive. I'll take a look later Dave and see if I can locate it again. It isn't actually that far back, because someone posted something to it I think about the beginning of this year. I have a sneaking suspicion it may be in the General messageboard, although I may be wrong. I found it by first locating the member who posted the thread, then going to his profile and using it to display the last 400 messages he had posted (he has actually posted considerably less than that), then posting a reply to one of his messages in the thread to bump it to the top of the messageboard it is in, which is the “Preserving New Zealand Aviation History” forum.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 19:09:43 GMT 12
Thanks for that Bruce, yes that was the thread I was trying to find ages ago, as I had som3 new photos to add. in the end I created a new thread, and now I have no idea where that one is either, and from memory it got now replis. Hey ho... Anyway, this is a complete fantasy scene of "1939 Auckland" which I created just now using a composite of about thirty different photos from the net plus one two of Peter's Clipper shots. I was trying to make it moody and evocative. I rather like how it turned out, considering. I hope you guys like it too.
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Post by oj on Dec 10, 2010 19:34:37 GMT 12
That is outstandingly clever Dave. You have a huge talent there. You must try and leverage some employment out of somebody for such works.
Are you listed with local advertising agencies as a free-lance photo-graphics illustrator or anything? Might be worth a try.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 10, 2010 20:05:18 GMT 12
Thanks for that Bruce, yes that was the thread I was trying to find ages ago, as I had som3 new photos to add. in the end I created a new thread, and now I have no idea where that one is either, and from memory it got now replis. Hey ho... I think I know which thread that is. I found it (and a few others) when I was using the search engine to try and locate the other thread (without success as I didn't know exactly what I was looking for, until I hit on the idea of working out who posted the thread, then carrying out a search from their profile). The beginning of NZ's international airlineIf it isn't that one, could it perhaps be the following thread? Solent photosThe way I located those threads was to use a search method that is a wee bit different from the default method, but it works without downloading vast amounts of files if you search purely by message content. What I do is select a keyword (in this case, TEAL) and insert that. Then I uncheck all of the forum/messageboard boxes and select only those I think a thread is most likely to be in (in this case, I only checked the General Forum, NZ's Civil Aviation and Preserving NZ Aviation History forums); then I left the boxes checked to search both thread titles and message content but selected to display collapsed threads only. I then used a fairly wide search & display criteria by selecting the past 999 days and for it to display 999 results. And I got a single page of links to individual threads.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 20:13:38 GMT 12
Thanks OJ, yeah maybe I should.
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