Chris Brame wrote:
Nice job except it should have red and white stripes on the rudder (from that brief time in early '42 when they were used; they're still visible on the earliest photo of the SG).
Not surprised. The rest of the paint is temporary. You can't "temporarily" paint a balanced, fabric surface. They may add the stripes in post using CGI, but they also may just leave it. Painting the rudder alone probably would've doubled or more the prep time and thus the cost. For a 1 or 2-day shoot, it's not worth it. Same reason they didn't fully paint Jim Travolta's 707 for its scenes in the now cancelled PanAm TV series.
BTW, those talking about having enough "money" to hire MARC and repainting the plane, understand that the cost of having MARC take the plane down to FoF, doing a watercolor repaint, and filming it then returning it to it's original paint is
MUCH less expensive than doing the whole thing CGI. It's a misnomer in the media world that CGI is cheaper than doing it for real. It's not. For what they paid to do it for real, they
might have been able to get an off-the-shelf CGI model of a B-17, but then they'd have needed to double or more that cost to then animate it and put it into their production. Peter Jackson has been one of the biggest names in the push, but there have been several major producers starting to push back against CGI and are using more and more practical effects and real sets/vehicles whenever possible because they're finding more and more that not only is it cheaper, but there are plenty of people out there hungry for the work with the proper equipment (i.e. vehicles, airplanes, boats, etc) to do it right. It also takes a lot less time since you can repaint an airplane and even do some pretty extensive modifications to it in less than 1/4 the time it'd take to build an HD/theatrical-quality model in a computer.
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I sure hope someone gets air to air shots before they remove the paint.
