WWII Colorized by SHAEF Part 3

[SHAEF1944]

Thats it for now. I'm gonna try and do some Navy/Marine stuff before long, and will post if some of them turn out OK.

Last edited by SHAEF1944 on Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[k5083]

Pretty good work.

Just by way of observation, the sharper and higher-res of the photos seem to look better when colorized.

Shangri-La needs a red nose!

August

[Obergrafeter]

First time I have ever seen a picture of the B-25 with the secret uni-wheel landing gear.

[Pat Carry]

Great photos.

[the330thbg]

Beautiful job!!! Thanks for sharing!

[SHAEF1944]

Just by way of observation, the sharper and higher-res of the photos seem to look better when colorized.

Very definately. In black and white, the tones of gray seems to blend together and you don't notice so much the lack of detail in lower res pics. Add color, and the lack of detail becomes very obvious. But so many really neat photos are low res !


Shangri-La needs a red nose!

Another bad on my part. Gentile and Shangri-La started out his Mustang career in a white nose scheme, and this lasted until about his 10th kill, about 3 weeks or so, then they went to the colored spinners.... With the number of kills in the pic, after more study, you are of course correct, it should be red. I just did not research far enough before doing this one.

[the65dartguy]

What is with the odd nosegun configuration on the B-24 "Hap" Hazard?? I dont recall having seen that before.

[SHAEF1944]

August, I went and changed Shangri-La to the correct nose color for the time period indicated by the kill markings .... If ya gonna do it, might as well do it right !

[SHAEF1944]

What is with the odd nosegun configuration on the B-24 "Hap" Hazard?? I dont recall having seen that before.

Original 445th BG aircraft - arrived in UK on 24 Nov 43. Not listed on a report dated 28 Dec 43 from 445 BG to 2BD of names and pictures on aircraft. Repaired at Woodbridge, Suffolk, 23 Apr - 12 May 44 - structural damage. Flew 27 combat missions with 445th BG / 703rd BS (RN G). Original Emerson A-15 nose turret was replaced by a special "glasshouse" cover with a Bell power turret taken from a B-26 tail position and installed in the lower part of the nose, with the bomb sight and clear sight panel positioned above. Declared war weary Aug 44. Flown by Col. Al Key for Operational Engineering back to Wright Field, USA, on 6 Nov 44.

[Dave Homewood]

Nice work. Here are a couple I have done in the past.

A colourised wartime black and white photo of nose art on a No. 30 Squadron RNZAF Avenger


A Fairey Gordon advanced trainer of No. 2 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Wigram, Christchurch, NZ


A visitor to RNZAF Station Whenuapai, Auckland, in 1945


Vildebeests over Auckland


It's all a bit of fun really.

[Dave Homewood]

Here are some flying boats that I colourised this week.

In the past few days some really nice old black and white photos of international Flying Boats that visited Auckland in the late 1930's and early 1940's have been posted up on a couple of threads. I got inspired by their good quality and decided to try to add a bit of colour to them with Photoshop, and here are some results. See the originals and more on this thread.
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=civil&action=display&thread=12468











This one is not based on any particular shot but instead comes from my imagination and takes in bits from about 30 different photos from around the web to make an evening scene in 1939 Auckland's waterfront.

[The Inspector]

I wonder if the shot of Henry Ford II on the towmotor tug was the begining of his decision to cancel the deal to buy Ferarri and build the GT-40?


And photo #3 is a 498th AIR APACHE on a raid in the Hanoi area (can't find my copy of WARPATH to identify the airplane or crew) but seconds after that picture was taken the wing came off and all on board were killed

[the330thbg]

Very cool!!!!!

[Pogo]

Very cool indeed!

What's going on with the open hatch on the -26's aft fuse?



Also, check out Diamond Lil/Ol' 927's two-panel windscreen on the -24. Interesting! Means it's a late model Lib, I'm guessing?

[SHAEF1944]

Nice, Dave. I especially like the Gordon. And the 1939 "composite" pic is great. I've tried a couple of those, and they are much harder to make look 'right' than just colorizing. Excellent job on that one !

Anybody wants to, here is the link to my photobucket album of colorized WWII. About 165 pics at this time.

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc31 ... edBySHAEF/