Plane Photography

[dark hare]

did your models from prarie arrive yet

[uneven fog]

ACC and marine schedules drop tmr turn up 🔥🔥🔥

[brittle bridge]

no they will Wednesday

[dark hare]

Yum

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I lied

Me no like UPS

They lowk slow

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@dark hare

[dark hare]

[brittle bridge]

what color should I paint

after primers

[dark hare]

what airline do you wanna do

for the -8 i would personally try the lufthansa centennial

but its not even painted irl

[brittle bridge]

hmmmmm I need the sticker paper if I wanna do an airline

[dark hare]

get waterslide paper

[brittle bridge]

yea that

prob should paint white before doing livery lol

[dark hare]

if its primed then choose ur livery

then paint

cuz if ur doing like

qatar

its grey not white

[brittle bridge]

well its gray primer

id probably do lufthansa or united

aka not gray

[dark hare]

united never had -8s

also

what unied livery

[brittle bridge]

oh ya

oopsies

[dark hare]

battleship grey was

grey

🤷‍♂️

you can do any livery lmao

[brittle bridge]

swa

[dark hare]

real

idk what to paint mine in

[brittle bridge]

wait

[dark hare]

i have the zvezda 748 1/144 kit

[brittle bridge]

what if i get the fun sparkly paint

[dark hare]

i couldnt paint the house livery for shit

its so annoying

[brittle bridge]

this would be very cool

need to paint it over black

[night wing]

print file?

[uneven fog]

Holy shit

The base 2hrs from my house got a super show for 2027

[brisk hinge]

oh nice

[uneven fog]

Tb and blue angels

[brisk hinge]

which show?

both? wow

[uneven fog]

Westover ARB

It’s a C-5 base

ZERO clue how they scored both

[brisk hinge]

very cool

[brittle bridge]

Clerx on printables

[delicate silo]

thatll be freaking epic

ggs

[brittle bridge]

21h from me

[night wing]

Thank you!!

[night wing]

Gonna make a big one on my H2D

[brittle bridge]

nice

[brittle bridge]

do a 200% one

[night wing]

Big

[brittle bridge]

It’s already pretty big so I could only imagine 200%

[night wing]

Okay

I have a couple 1m+ planes

[brittle bridge]

My dads work just got an H2D

[night wing]

Nice

Mine is a launch day one

Got it while I was at sun n fun the airshow

It came with a few defects

Barely could use it

Been to busy to fix it

[brittle bridge]

What was wrong?

[night wing]

Left side doesn't feed right

It gets stuck a lot

[brittle bridge]

Weird

[night wing]

Just restart it like 1000 times and it goes a layer or a half at a time

[brittle bridge]

Technically my P2S was bought on release

USA

came really late

[night wing]

I'm in US too

[brittle bridge]

same day as H2C was released

[night wing]

I'm in Miami

So I get some good aviation stuff around me

[night wing]

Omg I like the 22

You design planes?

[brittle bridge]

Thanks

[night wing]

I'm building a dedicated flight sim

[brittle bridge]

No

I’d like to

[night wing]

Wonderful planes

[brittle bridge]

[uneven fog]

I tried to do a viper in my 6th grade stem class

In like the kid version of some modeling software

[brittle bridge]

Might print that F35 again in a bigger scale

Could be fun

[uneven fog]

Covid hit and I never got to finish it 💔

[night wing]

Nooooo

[brittle bridge]

Tinkercad?

[uneven fog]

Sounds right

[brittle bridge]

Tinkercad my goat

No idea how to use fusion

[delicate silo]

real I hate real cad softwares

I only know blender and tinkercad

and im not good at blender either

[brittle bridge]

I’m ok at blender

tinkercad ez

drag shape

move shape

not this sketch shape bullshit in fusion

[delicate silo]

blender learning curve is wild though

[brittle bridge]

all I can really do is use the loop tool

for plane fuselage

I’ve attempted to model one

[delicate silo]

ive modeled one in blender

only messed up like 7 times before getting it semi right

hand painted lol cause didnt have time to use multi color print

[brittle bridge]

[delicate silo]

made landing gear just couldnt get em on in time

[brittle bridge]

I think my next project will be rc plane

hmmm

there’s a free piper cub one

Don’t know how I feel about a taildragger rc

[brisk hinge]

worth

[brittle bridge]

I’d just go to Oshkosh

[brisk hinge]

also worth

[brittle bridge]

maybe 26’

[brisk hinge]

are you coming next year

[brittle bridge]

I might have a fren to go with me

[brisk hinge]

i’ll believe it when i see it

[brittle bridge]

his dad is how I got the KC-135R photos

[delicate silo]

i wanna go to oshkosh erm

could go with CAP and volunteer but then no photos

[brittle bridge]

damn

bum ass CAP not letting u take pics

[delicate silo]

nah twin we'd be busy

ive heard peoples experiences

i dont know how much like free time you get lol

[brittle bridge]

Boring

@brisk hinge You know how financially responsible I would be at Oshkosh

[brisk hinge]

that’s not my problem

[brisk hinge]

do not

[brittle bridge]

all my money go bye bye

[delicate silo]

y

[brisk hinge]

CAP has always seemed so dumb

[brittle bridge]

ay I got a benjamin in my pocket

[brisk hinge]

like a bunch of little boys running around playing dress up

[brittle bridge]

why would u go if u can’t take pics

[brisk hinge]

and at OSH they mostly just drive around looking for stuck mics/radios transmitting, they don’t do much but they’re busy all day

[delicate silo]

martial alot of aircraft lol

[brittle bridge]

wearing long sleeves and pants in hot ass weather

[delicate silo]

people hate on cap for no reason lol

[brisk hinge]

it’s mostly regular volunteers doing that at OSH

i’ve done that some

it’s fun

[brittle bridge]

according to one of my frens I can get a job as a lineman at my airport

[delicate silo]

uh pretty sure most cadets do over 100 aircraft lol

[brittle bridge]

llama try not to say lol (level: impossible)

[brisk hinge]

not sure what that has to do with what i said

you can marshall aircraft at OSH as a regular volunteer, it’s mostly non-CAP there

[delicate silo]

real twin

i have like 5 words i say

[delicate silo]

ok?

and whats your point

[brisk hinge]

my point is CAP is dumb, especially at OSH

[delicate silo]

ok

[brisk hinge]

ok

[brittle bridge]

ok

[brisk hinge]

👍

[brittle bridge]

ay there’s flight training in my town

lowkey had no idea

[brisk hinge]

Joseph Kittinger gave me this mission patch years ago

just remembered it

[delicate silo]

w

[brittle bridge]

my work just got an entire box of red bull

I will be taking a couple home on Thursday

[uneven fog]

Tell em to take the 135 in there

[uneven fog]

Cap in the big 25 is wild 💔

[uneven fog]

Glad we agree here

[uneven fog]

There’s flight training at pretty much every airport these days lol

And somehow it’s still impossible to get hired as a cfi

[brisk hinge]

real

[uneven fog]

How do they do this

Just a handheld and see where it’s the loudest?

[brisk hinge]

they have a whole antenna rig that they drive around in vans and golf carts with

[uneven fog]

Lmao

That’s gotta be a sight

Military convoy but instead of the military it’s just cap

[brisk hinge]

it’s a bunch of kids playing dress up feeling important

yep

[uneven fog]

It’s so funny when they post their flying pictures

Girl I go to school with supposedly tells everyone in her classes how to fly airplanes

She has 15 hrs

Hasn’t soloed

💔

[brisk hinge]

💀

[delicate silo]

🧢

[uneven fog]

@brisk hinge You gonna hit up dc on the fourth?

[brisk hinge]

what’s happening?

oh rats, my friend in CA is getting married on the 3rd so i‘lol be out there

[uneven fog]

Unfortunate

I’m thinking probably a big Fourth of July thing

Raptor is already scheduled for there

Tbirds are open that weekend

[brisk hinge]

oh 4th of july

not next 4th (january)

[uneven fog]

lol 😭😭

yea of July lol

[brisk hinge]

still though, i doubt it. DC is a zoo for the 4th normally, and i can only imagine what it’ll be like for the 250th

it’s normally an absolute madhouse

so many people

[uneven fog]

Is it bad on the fourth

[brisk hinge]

the metro feels like subways in japan where they have people who’s job is to pack you in the cars

[delicate silo]

lol

[brisk hinge]

i will be hanging out with my family on the fourth

well away from DC

[uneven fog]

Hm might rethink going then

The other option is jones beach New York 😭

Which will be just as bad

[brisk hinge]

yeahhh

good luck 🫡

[dark hare]

Mmmm

Blender

Im aight t it

[uneven fog]

Trash 8 👎

[delicate silo]

like half the plane looks fine

the other half is like blocks lol

[delicate silo]

supportive community we're

[dark hare]

yeah i kinda design some planes just so i can print them in fdm

i printed this n 1:400

the props were spinny btw

[delicate silo]

fdm?

[dark hare]

ye

like

[delicate silo]

whats that

[dark hare]

https://tenor.com/view/3dprint-3d-printing-design-time-lapse-gif-13502531

these

fdm

[delicate silo]

twin thats a 3d printer

twin

[dark hare]

fdm is th type of printer

[delicate silo]

mmm

[dark hare]

forgot this isnt a 3d printing server

lmao

wait

fdm is

whatever

iits

yeah

fdm

@brittle bridge gets it

right?

[brittle bridge]

what

[delicate silo]

I print stuff just had no idea what fdm meant

lol

[brittle bridge]

fused deposition molding

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/max-verstappen-wigglytuff-gif-16327010354590181628

[brisk hinge]

only one type of 3d printer*

there are many types

[delicate silo]

erm yuh

most people only have resin or normal though

[brisk hinge]

“normal”

[uneven fog]

Design is great it’s just a shitty plane

[dark hare]

i luv dash 8

my first flight was on one

[uneven fog]

@flint smelt is kanohoe bay biennial or annual?

And then there’s the marine air station too?

[flint smelt]

Biennial

[flint smelt]

Yea marine corps air station kaneohe bay, thats where the airshow is at.

[brittle bridge]

average canadian

[dark hare]

real

[uneven fog]

Is there another show?

Or just kanohohe bay

[flint smelt]

Just k-bay

Kinda mid airshow.

Since the pacaf f-16 demo team disbanded the only real fighter demo we get is the 22.

[uneven fog]

Do yall only get the blues there

Or tbirds ever

[vital island]

whats the site for airshow schedules

[brisk hinge]

blues were there this year no?

or am i thinking of another show

that’s hawaii right

[uneven fog]

Airshowstuff is probably the best

Icas is also a good one

[uneven fog]

Think so

I’m looking at that cape cod one

Thing is if the blues are in Hawaii, then that Montana show is almost guaranteed to be a blue angels show

[calm reef]

I have been summoned

[delicate silo]

hi

[calm reef]

Hi

Okie u have fun with ur plens now

Byebye im sleep

[vital island]

yoooooooooooooo

thats dope

[dark hare]

literally every team skipped abbotsford lmfao

other than snowbirds

[vital island]

ohio is stacked

[dark hare]

@brittle bridge

king air

[vital island]

if i were to go to like 3 of them

which would be most worth

[dark hare]

holy damn

[vital island]

just neighboring states

[vital island]

chicago michigan dayton?

[brittle bridge]

just put the blender down bro 💔

[brisk hinge]

wait for civ schedules to come out

[dark hare]

another one i liked

[dark hare]

what

is it bad

[vital island]

wat dat mean

[dark hare]

civ performers

[brittle bridge]

smooth it out

[vital island]

what that mean

[brisk hinge]

civilian

[dark hare]

those details arent even visible in 1:400 lmao

[brisk hinge]

non-military

[dark hare]

its so small that that bit of smoothening wont do shit

[brittle bridge]

are we deadass rn

print it rn

[dark hare]

the king air?

i already did in the past

[vital island]

gorg are civ schedules better

[dark hare]

its small as shit

[brittle bridge]

show

[brisk hinge]

i like civilian performers almost more than military

not sure what the 2026 season looks like yet though

[dark hare]

this is v1 test version btw not the one in the photo above but this ones model is actually more rough lmao

[brittle bridge]

damn

tiny

[dark hare]

Im gonna print the new vers later

Rough but its fdm not resin

More shit

These 2 arent my prints but i painted them

[vital island]

do they have the mid planes tho

i want to see like the military shi

[brisk hinge]

civs are more impressive

military performers are flying their aircraft at 65% capability, civs are flying at 105% of their aircraft’s capabilities

[dark hare]

fr

[brisk hinge]

jets are cool

but civilian performers are my favorite

[brittle bridge]

what printer

[brisk hinge]

wings over north georgia was one of my favorite shows this year, and it was during the shutdown so no military planes

[brittle bridge]

like that aerobatic bonanza or whatever

[brisk hinge]

https://r2.cobre.photos/content/events/2025.07.21-airventure-oshkosh/airventure-oshkosh-20250727-266.webp

[dark hare]

idk

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[dark hare]

they were just sent to me by prairie

a big ass box

[brittle bridge]

oh

[brittle bridge]

si senor

[brisk hinge]

or matt younkin’s beech 18

[dark hare]

based

[brittle bridge]

i like dis guy

[dark hare]

wb ghostwriter

the guy with the chipmunk

[brisk hinge]

yeah nathan too

[rocky coyote]

This is a cool plane

[uneven fog]

This is fuckin wild

[dark hare]

sadly i couldnt see his night performance

[brisk hinge]

rip

it’s so good

[dark hare]

cuz i went with my frined to the airshow but they left early

[brisk hinge]

lame

[brittle bridge]

weak

[vital island]

why

[brittle bridge]

never hang out with them again

what losers

[dark hare]

im happy he offered to take me for the show tho cuz ive never been to the night show

[brisk hinge]

i’m going to try to get an a2a with nates wife next season

[dark hare]

im too broke for the night show

[uneven fog]

Sorry I misunderstood what you were saying

[rocky coyote]

L 7 weenies

[brittle bridge]

cobre take your gf to oshkosh

oh wait

[uneven fog]

If I get into my top college I’ll be at Cleveland

[delicate silo]

laeve him

[uneven fog]

OUCH

[brittle bridge]

[brisk hinge]

sure

if she wants to go

[dark hare]

i still saw a bit of it

out of the car

[brittle bridge]

dump her if no

shrimple

[uneven fog]

Massive

[brisk hinge]

uh

nah

[dark hare]

also this one

[rocky coyote]

What kind of bro leaves his bros when you’re doing nerdy stuff

[dark hare]

this was melisa burns i think?

[brittle bridge]

-# massive?

[brisk hinge]

yep

she’s super nice

[dark hare]

i wouldnt have even gone to the show in the first place if he didnt offer it

he my bro yk never leaving him

[rocky coyote]

What a shmuck though

[uneven fog]

These are the ones I’m looking at right now

[dark hare]

?

[uneven fog]

College plans will definitely effect what I do after mid August

If I get into BGSU I’m coming to Cleveland

[dark hare]

snowbirds

im excited for the snowbirds tbh

[brittle bridge]

my goal is oshkosh eventually

[dark hare]

its the 55th anniversary

[rocky coyote]

Reckon a 24-70 2.8 would go pretty well at Lukla?

[dark hare]

so they might have a special livery

[brittle bridge]

yes

[rocky coyote]

One day I’ll go to Avalon

[brittle bridge]

hey mower when are you gonna upgrade

r8......

[uneven fog]

Doubt it its the RCAF they’re poor asf

[dark hare]

true

they use dto do such nice liveries

heres a great example

[uneven fog]

Couldn’t even keep the CF18 demo up

Yea the cf18s always looked good

[dark hare]

well

[rocky coyote]

Best guess would be 18 months

[dark hare]

the demo still exists

as the TAC demo

its basically the growlers but canadian

[brisk hinge]

take your gf

wait

[dark hare]

thats the best way i can describe it

[brittle bridge]

ok

[uneven fog]

oooh burn

[brittle bridge]

if she wants to go

[brisk hinge]

(you’re coping)

[uneven fog]

Or not?

[rocky coyote]

I thought Charlie lived in the UK

[brisk hinge]

dump her

[dark hare]

this is an older photo from over 2 yr ago but its the tac demo

[brittle bridge]

ew femboy

[dark hare]

don mind the weird ass mark i put in it

[uneven fog]

Oh they do a 2 ship?

[dark hare]

ye

[uneven fog]

Oh that’s cool

[rocky coyote]

I don’t need to get that snippy do I

[dark hare]

sneak passes too

like they were pretty good

[uneven fog]

They gotta get a strike eagle tac demo going in the US

[brittle bridge]

yes

[uneven fog]

They did one at SJ this year

[brittle bridge]

nebraska also needs a good airshow

[uneven fog]

Flares n everything

[dark hare]

lemme see if i ican find photos of the demo

[dark hare]

hot

[brittle bridge]

apparently the f35 demo team is the only performer signed up for offutt in 2026

[rocky coyote]

I’ll probably upgrade in 2027 I’ve gotta save because I’m travelling A LOT over the next year

[brittle bridge]

no tbirds or ba

[uneven fog]

Didn’t offut have a brutal show this year

[brisk hinge]

deserved

[uneven fog]

Yea

[brittle bridge]

it was hot as shit

[uneven fog]

Wasn’t there hella restrictions

[dark hare]

i was ass at getting my settings right please dont mind

[brittle bridge]

like every other airshow?

no open waterbottles

uhhh

thats about it

[dark hare]

this one is silly cuz i got only 1 burner lmao

it was so close to being out of frame

[uneven fog]

Wasn’t there a lens restriction?

[brisk hinge]

⬛️

[uneven fog]

Wait I’m thinking of tinker I think

[brittle bridge]

i got through with a 150-600

[dark hare]

dark?

[brittle bridge]

maybe tinker

they searched my bag and said i was good

[dark hare]

i never shot at night so i was tweaking with my settings

[uneven fog]

Yea I think it was tinker

[dark hare]

they were pretty ass

[brisk hinge]

yes

[dark hare]

yeah i need to leanr settings for dark

[brittle bridge]

tinker had lens restriction?

damn

[brisk hinge]

jet photos crop

[uneven fog]

All the Midwest stratcom bases are the same to me

[dark hare]

real

[brisk hinge]

yeah it was bad

[uneven fog]

I remember seeing the forum post about it

[brittle bridge]

no larger than 200mm 😭

[uneven fog]

yup 😭

[brittle bridge]

gg bro

just dont even take photos atp

[dark hare]

ik this is backlit to shit but yeah 2 ship

[brisk hinge]

200mm + stack TCs

[uneven fog]

Idk if that was like Focal length or like physical length

[brittle bridge]

8 inches

[dark hare]

compact lenses fr

[uneven fog]

Would be weird to measure in millimeters if it was real length tho

[brittle bridge]

ish

[uneven fog]

That’s when you throw the lens lock on and say it’s an internal zoom

[brisk hinge]

p1000 or whatever the goofy nikon camera is

[uneven fog]

“Oh I don’t know man it doesn’t extend”

[dark hare]

the departure is lowk kinda why i compared the tac to growler

[brittle bridge]

real

[dark hare]

the conditions were so ass 💔

[uneven fog]

Oceana SF were on some bs this year on Saturday

[dark hare]

fr

[brittle bridge]

these are cooked vro

[dark hare]

i know gng

it was backlit to shit

[uneven fog]

They figured it out midway through the show tho and I went back to my car and got my shit

[brisk hinge]

unfortunate (for you plebs)

[uneven fog]

All thanks to cobre

[brisk hinge]

there were lens restrictions???

or sf just thought there were?

i forget what went down

[brittle bridge]

lens restrictions are so dumb

like what is the purpose

so you dont take better photos than the official photographer?

[brisk hinge]

it can be annoying to have people in a crowd with giant lenses

[uneven fog]

Not lens restrictions but they started turning away everyone with a bag

[brisk hinge]

💀

[uneven fog]

Even tho it said camera backpacks would be allowed

[brittle bridge]

who cares about everyone else

at offutt they just opened it up and said i was good

[brisk hinge]

show promoters

[uneven fog]

I carried my camera for a bit and then begged the air guard to give me a little tote to put my shit in 😭

they were on some bs too

[brittle bridge]

weak

[uneven fog]

“You gotta win it”

GIVE ME THE FUCKING BAG

[brittle bridge]

you have rf 100-400

right

the really light one

[uneven fog]

Was on the 100-500 for that show

[brittle bridge]

close enough

still

light

[brisk hinge]

how heavy

[uneven fog]

I needed a place to put shirts n patches though

[brittle bridge]

hit the gym lil bro

[uneven fog]

Does the gym make me grow more arms

[brittle bridge]

lens is 3lb

[uneven fog]

Can I be an octopus

[brittle bridge]

r7 is 1lb

4lb setup

[brisk hinge]

LOL

[brittle bridge]

bro cant hold 4lb

[brisk hinge]

PointAndLaugh

[brittle bridge]

😭

[uneven fog]

Bro the bag was for my shirts n shit guys PLEASE 💔💔💔

[brittle bridge]

me when i lie

[brisk hinge]

uh huh

[uneven fog]

💔💔💔

[brittle bridge]

weak ass mf not using a strap either

the whole point of a strap is to help you carry it

[uneven fog]

Nah big fan of just holding it with a single hand

[brittle bridge]

bro

[uneven fog]

Fuck a strap I go raw

pause

[brittle bridge]

you like it raw huh

[uneven fog]

I shoot cRAW actually

[brittle bridge]

mid

nef the goat

tiff

[uneven fog]

Bros naming weird Nikon stuff we don’t know

Peyton do you know stuff about PCs

[brisk hinge]

says the guy who just said cRAW

[flint smelt]

Only blues

[flint smelt]

Yes they were here.

[dense totem]

if its anything about building a pc, dont build your own atm, prebuilts are better value by a mile cause of fucking ram prices

i can help a bit tho

[uneven fog]

Haha not really I was just gonna make fun of Nikon more

I bought my components right before everythibg like skyrocketed

Unfortunate thing is if someone waits they might be waiting for years

[brittle bridge]

not really

[dark hare]

strike eagle

[lavish ember]

Yay MO

[brisk hinge]

Flying Bulls are bringing their DC-6 AND P-38 to OSH26

i’m so excited

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flyingbulls.at%2Fstatic_processed%2F77fc91bec1f0857992224a66c138cbde%2F18_lockheed_p-38_lightning_the_flying_bulls.jpg%3F%257B%2522image%2522%3A%2522https%3A%2F%2Fapi.flyingbulls.at%2Ffileadmin%2Fcontent%2Fflotte%2Flockheed_p-38_lightning%2F2023-11_fotos%2F18_lockheed_p-38_lightning_the_flying_bulls.jpg%2522%2C%2522outputFormat%2522%3A%257B%2522format%2522%3A%2522webp%2522%257D%2C%2522edits%2522%3A%257B%2522resize%2522%3A%257B%2522width%2522%3A640%2C%2522fit%2522%3A%2522cover%2522%2C%2522height%2522%3A640%257D%257D%257D&f=1&ipt=b91708ccc42874c88bc37d85f0d33c0c29f771a4ca8248b3ca42e023d1c6f898

🤤

[dark hare]

gah zamn

does daily tickets mean you can come in every day? or just one day

like

youth can enter for free the whole time or what

lowkey

osh 26 is around the time me and my parents are gonna go on the roadtrip i think

[delicate silo]

Add more color

[delicate silo]

Omg I want to see their corsair Sooooooo bad

[brisk hinge]

just one day

[brisk hinge]

sameeee

[delicate silo]

I really want to get it flying in Austria with the mountains but prob won't happen

[brisk hinge]

sounds like a roadtrip to wisconsin

that's what i'm hearing

[delicate silo]

They used it for an f1 race flyover once it was epic

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/plane-gif-26207960

[dark hare]

Aw

[spare lantern]

Wait hold on i was there too

[dark hare]

Maybe

[delicate silo]

Fire

[uneven fog]

What a lame flyover though

[delicate silo]

nah twin

f4u corsair

is peak

[uneven fog]

I feel like F1 flyovers are just bad in general

[delicate silo]

you're wrong then lol

[brisk hinge]

a Flying Bulls F-4U corsair

[delicate silo]

;3

[dense totem]

yeah prebuilts might catch up but at the moment they look like the play

the whole thing is so fucked

[delicate silo]

Ram prices are wild

[uneven fog]

Cause the ram in all those current prebuilts have already been factored into the cost

Once those ones sell out though

[delicate silo]

Resell em lol

[uneven fog]

Honestly at this rate

Find a prebuilt with a couple good components, hold onto the ram and whatever else you want, resell the other parts you don’t want and then buy the rest of the stuff you need for your build

Might be cheaper

[brittle bridge]

@dark hare

[dark hare]

Based

[brittle bridge]

a wheel fell off on one of em 😔

the beluga

but holy shit these are heavy

[dark hare]

average model moment

[dark hare]

wait until you get a 1:200 widebody

my friend has the an225 by gemini jets 1:200

its heavy as shit

[brittle bridge]

the beluga I have is fuckin heavy

[brisk hinge]

Dewey’s Top Gun F-18 cockpit was involved in an accident on the way home from ICAS

https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/589182559_18548119726012643_5241800376352416179_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_p1179x1179_tt6&_nc_cat=103&ig_cache_key=Mzc4NjM2NzU1NDYwOTA0OTI3Mg%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InhwaWRzLjEyOTB4MjI5My5zZHIuQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc=MZEHlzmzIVQQ7kNvwH-2z2B&_nc_oc=AdmOlipCbhICalccQHRjdmdmaa5sAM1DrqHgeWV6aGaFdL3N-tbTx_7SdKLabEffSJo&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=gEkRdNZk0dLsmhG74nqJcQ&oh=00_AfkAPO7cCSu64j65MN_pd6EMbnThimid2f6FqhKtlhQArQ&oe=694297A7&client_is_sponsored=0

apparently he was going around a corner and had to swerve

[brittle bridge]

💀

-$500,000

[rocky coyote]

That poor aircraft

[vital island]

cobre shadow reveal

[brisk hinge]

he had just booked his whole year at ICAS, apparently he had a big year lined up

[brisk hinge]

not me

[vital island]

ah

[brisk hinge]

but yeah it stinks. Doesn’t look too destroyed (other than the canopy) so hopefully he can fix it in time to hit a few shows later next year

[brittle bridge]

me when cobre face reveal

[vital island]

Instagram

Shadow reveal is unseen tho

[brittle bridge]

and more

[vital island]

Fah u mean

[brittle bridge]

@dark hare the collection begins

The package I ordered from Canada (these) arrived before one I ordered from Texas like 2 weeks ago

🔥🔥🔥

UPS was locked in

[dark hare]

yay

[dark hare]

Whered you order from in texas

Is plane store?

[brittle bridge]

bambulab

Parts for P2S

[dark hare]

A

[brittle bridge]

B

[uneven fog]

Wait till you get a video of someone violating the FARs

18mm focal length btw

[brisk hinge]

what are you on about

[brittle bridge]

[lavish loom]

saw an awacs almost tip over a couple days ago
it was already at a an angle when it landed, then it tipped to the front-right side
mustve been centimeters before the wing touched the runway

[uneven fog]

60 dollars for GENERAL ADMISSION at my local show next year

This is genuinely a problem

And they’ll have no statics and like 4 performers

If you make me pay 60 bucks but I get an Oceana lineup

GLADLY

Take my money

I’m gonna see the blue angels and a couple civilians

[brittle bridge]

🙏

[lavish loom]

wtf

more than riat

[brisk hinge]

just come to Oceana again 🗣️

[delicate silo]

REALLLL

Prices are too high

for mid ahhh shows

[uneven fog]

college 💔

and I’m at that age where I like could travel alone

But I can’t get a rental car

Can’t get a hotel

[brisk hinge]

awful age

sleep in your car 🔥

[uneven fog]

Fr

[brisk hinge]

that's what i'm doing for a race in daytona next month

[uneven fog]

Could be the move

I can fly a plane multiple states away but I can’t get a rental car

Make it make sense

[brisk hinge]

real

building up my car to take short trips in

[uneven fog]

Brother are we driving a Kia

[brisk hinge]

ew no

honda element

like a kia soul but actually good

[uneven fog]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those

Shit looks nice to camp in

[brisk hinge]

there's so much room yet it drives like a very small car

i'll take the rear seats out and put in a custom bed frame when i stay in it

going to daytona for a race next month, will probably be gone almost two weeks and i'm just going to stay in it in random parking lots around

[delicate silo]

how rental companies think someone under 25 will drive:

https://tenor.com/view/kanagawa-kanagawa-alliance-gif-21847294

[delicate silo]

w b ed

[brisk hinge]

(they're right)

[delicate silo]

its amazing how bad people can be at driving

[brisk hinge]

yes

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/whistlindiesel-ferrari-field-gif-7874992751393400687

me and bro in our 2 seat rental

[brisk hinge]

exactly

[uneven fog]

Aren’t you like 15 bro 💔

can you drive

[delicate silo]

no lol

[brittle bridge]

I can teehee

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/ferrari-mclaren-f1-charles-leclerc-drift-gif-6252954183257355602

[delicate silo]

mosquito?? or am i dumb

[brisk hinge]

that's a vampire, no?

[delicate silo]

no idea im just guessing

[sage cape]

yeh vampire

at HARS museum in Australia. Organised a night shoot and went out onto the tarmac to get the only flying P-2 Neptune and Lockheed Constellation in the world

[delicate silo]

yeah forget i said anything they look nothing alike im an idiot

to be fair never seen a vampire and only seen a mosquito online once lol

[uneven fog]

Not airplane related (except for my background) but we are cooking

Had a scare on the first startup but were straight now

Lightroom denoise is so fast

[vital island]

What race

[brisk hinge]

IMSA Rolex 24 at Daytona

it’s a 24h multi class endurance race but i’ll be there for a week and a half because of practice/qualifying/other events leading up to the main race

[vital island]

https://tenor.com/view/friday-job-word-for-today-gif-4856694457542600608

[brisk hinge]

? i have a job my guy

[delicate silo]

My toaster is better

[vital island]

[delicate silo]

Toaster >>

Runs at 100c well 80c now I modded it

[brittle bridge]

damn that’s clean

[delicate silo]

ty twin

[brittle bridge]

My desk/desk accessories do not match well at all

what monitor is that?

[delicate silo]

Uhhhh

samsung g7 or something idk i forget

color accurate is why i got it

[delicate silo]

mm

[brittle bridge]

ah I have the s7

[delicate silo]

which is that

[brittle bridge]

Samsung viewfinity s7

4k

[delicate silo]

w

[uneven fog]

Is that like a mini pc

[delicate silo]

Uhh itx

[azure grove]

which version of these two you liking more

one is adobe color the other is adobe landscape

or not they look like a copy for some reason what the hell

[lavish loom]

fix your damn cablemanagement

[uneven fog]

Nah not about it

Doesn’t affect performance

[sage cape]

2nd place in Vertical Magazines yearly photo competition

[dusk spindle]

Fucking robbed

1st was so bad 😭

[delicate silo]

W

[wary wren]

Well done

[dark hare]

Awesome

1st is cool but this is way better

[delicate silo]

Show first

[delicate silo]

I guess its kinda interesting

Unique is probably why it won

[dark hare]

yeah

[brisk hinge]

holy mid

you got snubbed

[sage cape]

My human element was better 😤

Now it’s just the question of will the pay the advertised $500 USD prize

[wary wren]

By “human element” they probably mean “face”

[delicate silo]

they should be more specific

then

[sage cape]

nah the competition wasn’t specifically human element

but they always do better if you include it

[dusk spindle]

They will

My friend won the grand prize last year

[sage cape]

The Coulson chinook pan?

That was pretty tough

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo ‼️

[delicate silo]

ww

i want one but they dont have any plane i want

[brittle bridge]

The b52 one is sick

[dark hare]

yum

i want the one for mig 21

[dusk spindle]

Yeah

[dark hare]

so this is just a photo comp but helis only?

[delicate silo]

I need a jet photo comp

[dark hare]

i think skies mag has a category for that

[delicate silo]

Mm

Id win

[dark hare]

this was the 2024 one

[delicate silo]

Yeah just looked at it

[dark hare]

commercial top 3

[delicate silo]

2025 ended oct 3rd

[dark hare]

oh

[delicate silo]

Mmmm

[dark hare]

commercial 2 looks odd

[delicate silo]

Ft

Fr

Looks off

I like it and I dont

[dark hare]

military

[delicate silo]

I like the f22

[dark hare]

general aviation

general av mfs were cooking i like these

second is really cool

[delicate silo]

Yuh

[delicate silo]

Fire

[brisk hinge]

wait what is all this, it looks like something i should be entering

[delicate silo]

Skies magazine photo contrst

[delicate silo]

Someone here could do that for sure

[brisk hinge]

i assume the pictures have to be taken in the year of the contest?

[dark hare]

honourable mentions section

the last one from honourable mentions

[delicate silo]

18 months

[brisk hinge]

makes sense

[dark hare]

will it let me speak yet

[delicate silo]

Million times bwtter than the winners lol

[brisk hinge]

real

[dark hare]

ok it stopped deleting my messages

[delicate silo]

Rigged contest

[dark hare]

andy zhao free uber

[delicate silo]

80% of the honorable mentions deserve it more

[dark hare]

considering the state of the shots i see in here i could probably make it in myself

my photos arent THAT great but like

if this one can end up in it i think i might be able to myself

[delicate silo]

Ywah people here could definitely get honorable

[brisk hinge]

yeah that’s…rough

[delicate silo]

Looks good until you zoom in lol

[brisk hinge]

not even

[delicate silo]

Ig the colors are cooked too

[dark hare]

yeah

[brisk hinge]

will definitely be entering this next year

[delicate silo]

Same

[brisk hinge]

is there anywhere i can sign up for alerts when it opens

[delicate silo]

Idk

[brisk hinge]

otherwise i’m going to forget about it

[delicate silo]

Same

[brisk hinge]

or when it’s close to closing

will just set a reminder for september i guess

[dark hare]

the 2023 grand prize winner one was good

[delicate silo]

I like my sunset shots and a10 moon mmm

[delicate silo]

Send

[delicate silo]

Oo vapor

Mid colors but good subject ig

[brisk hinge]

it’s mid from a photo standpoint

[delicate silo]

Yeah

[brisk hinge]

💔

[delicate silo]

Photogeapher didnt do anything special to it

[dark hare]

https://issues.skiesmag.com/554/766/1704/CSV13I6-Dec23Jan24/index.html?_gl=1*38l1ya*_ga*MTMwMzg2NjE4MS4xNzY1OTM3NDAz*_ga_WXQK141J8Z*czE3NjU5Mzc0MDIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NjU5MzgwNDUkajQ3JGwwJGgw

[delicate silo]

Just took the photo

[dark hare]

2023 contest stuff

https://skiesmag.com/issues-archive/

look through the whole thing for all the stuff

wtf

this was 1st place for military 2023

[delicate silo]

Those are fire

[dark hare]

i feel lke this should be grand prize compared to that f15 tbh

[delicate silo]

Yeah

[dark hare]

jakob kim

[brisk hinge]

this one is also cooked

[dark hare]

yvr spotters making it into so many of the commercial ones

[delicate silo]

F22 My goat

[brisk hinge]

yes but as a picture

cooked

[delicate silo]

Its a fire picture

[dark hare]

i feel like the 2022 grad prize winner was not it

[delicate silo]

Send

[dark hare]

like its cool but theres a wild gradient on the sky

[delicate silo]

Cool landscape mid shot

[dark hare]

like i feel lke i could ball and throw this in and end up somewhere in the honorable mentions

[brisk hinge]

needs a little bit of dehaze

just a touch

[dark hare]

i think tihs was original

except less denoise

idk what i was cooking on this one

i was ass at editing before

im still not good but not this bad

[brisk hinge]

HUH

that’s

wow nice recovery

that’s a piece of work

[dark hare]

i didnt do it my friend did

im too ass to do that

lmao

https://www.instagram.com/sevenapertures/

him

he'd easily get something in skies mag tbh

[delicate silo]

Fr

[dark hare]

his stuff

[delicate silo]

Ye great recovery

[delicate silo]

Ye

[dark hare]

i think hes in here

yes he is

@reef delta diddy

awaken

[delicate silo]

I dont do any civvy lol

[dark hare]

lmao

seaplane

old photo

need to get back out here again and try seaplanes

my old photos had these dumbass watermark placements

[dark hare]

zamn

[delicate silo]

I like my sunset stuff, unsure if skies cares tho

[delicate silo]

Lol

[dark hare]

skies photo of the week is odd

they put whateve the hell into there

[delicate silo]

Mmmm

I could apply for that ig

Prob easier

[delicate silo]

Fire

[dark hare]

i think they choose the photos out

i dont really know how some photos get in tbh

[brisk hinge]

what is that 😭

[delicate silo]

Thats in?? LOL

Gray ahhh photo

[dark hare]

these 2 shots are on the same page

💀

[delicate silo]

Thats fire

[delicate silo]

Rigged contest

A 13yr with a camera can take better

[dark hare]

if you tag skies mag on insta i think thats how they choos ethe photo of the week

idk

[delicate silo]

I hate posting photos on insta

Its such a horrible system

[dark hare]

another one 💀

[delicate silo]

💀

[dark hare]

some of these are genuine mid

[delicate silo]

Literally everyone here has better shots

I might tag em on a post then

With some photos

[dark hare]

then other shots are crazy

whoever chooses these photos out needs to revaluate their choosing system

[delicate silo]

What are these edges

[delicate silo]

I have similar to the 2nd just less chaotic

[delicate silo]

Hot

[dark hare]

i think thats enough now

[delicate silo]

[dark hare]

onb i gotta tag these mfs

[delicate silo]

Whats their @, and can it be multiple photos in one post?

[dark hare]

i think so

[delicate silo]

Watermark?

[dark hare]

https://www.instagram.com/skiesmag/

[delicate silo]

Ty

[dark hare]

yeah probably

i would assume they dm you and ask you to email a copy to them

[delicate silo]

Yeah

All right thanks

[dark hare]

I should probably post this one

[delicate silo]

They like those lol

Judges are biased

[dark hare]

Fr

[delicate silo]

Ill post a couple

Ig