Research

Note: I'm going to spread this week's blog post across two posts.
Though I want to get onto the modeling as soon as possible, as I want to get the Spitfire asset done for the week of 16th July, I wanted to get some research done.

But as always, I start off the project with some mood boards.

Whilst researching, I decided to base the Spitfire model on the Mk II version of the Spitfire, as both Mk I and Mk II during the Battle of Britain. 

Furthermore, whilst researching, I found out that both Mk I and Mk II had problems with the Merlin engines. Why is this? The earlier models of the Spitfire, the Merlin engine would stall if the Spitfire make any maneuver with high negative g levels (such as going upside down) the fuel would flood the engine and thus stall the engine and won't work properly. 

The German Messerschmitt didn't have this problem (as much) as it used an injection engine. Unless pushed to the extremes, the Messerschmitt could function normally.  

The Spitfire's however, used carburetors - which was a standard for the time. Whilst the injection engines were new. 

Some research links: 

⚜ | Clearing up Spitfire Misconceptions

The Spitfire's Fatal Flaw

Norwich Gaming Festival

This year, I volunteered at the Norwich Gaming Festival (NGF). I was hoping to send one day demoing texturing and another demoing photogrammetry. But I decided to choose to do photogrammetry (at least retopo of the model I created with photogrammetry). 

So for the demo, I decided to the retopologizes the model I created for photogrammetry using quad draw. It did take me a while to do, so I'm glad I decided to use both days to demo this. 

High poly vs low 

Granted, the topology could be way better. I am very happy with how it turned out and really want to work with photogrammetry more in the future. As much as I would have loved to finish this off, I couldn't spend too long on this. 

In addition to all of this, I watched a few documentaries about the Spitfire, Battle of Britain, the female spitfire pilots and one other that could be helpful for this project:

Spitfire: Birth Of A Legend (Fighter Plane Documentary) | Timeline
BBC Documentary 2017 - The British Spitfire - Military Documentary
The Battle Of Britain (Military History Documentary) | Timeline
13 Hours That Saved Britain (Battle of Britain Documentary) | Timeline
SPITFIRE
The Second World War: Fighters of WWII
Spitfire Sisters
Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted (French Resistance Documentary) | Timeline

I've also been looking at BBC's WW2 People's War Archive. I'm not going to say much as I rather the stories speak for themselves, but I'm going to leave direct links to some of the stories.

DOODLEBUG
My Mum's War: Life in the East End
Radio & TV Trade; and Evacuation from Slough
Ginger Thomas's D-Day: Working for Cossac
An Air Raid Incident from World War Two
In the Land Army and ATS
A Day in the Life of a Secret Agent
The Ex-WAAF and Hitlers Chef
Building a Radio a P.O.W. Camp - Part One
I helped with the Dambusters raid
Help Spitfire
The New Boy: Joining 66 Squadron, RAF
Spitfire Pilot
Frank Walker-Smith: Battle of Britain Hero
Memories of a Squadron Leader in the Battle Of Britain
The Battle of Britain from the Ground

“WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar”