Introducing the “Type A-13A Pilot Chronograph”, the first watch in my new Military Heritage series.
This face is an interpretation of the 1960’s era Mil-C-6499 standard for the cockpit clock that was installed in most US military aircraft in the 60’s and 70’s, including the F4 Phantom and U2 spy plane.
It can be displayed it in its fluorescent yellow or lusterless white variants, or a mixture of the two. For a more authentic look one can also choose to hide the battery and steps indicators.
Thanks @GAUSS. I’ll have to look at this as an update as it is already in review. Shadows are turned on for the hands. I guess the problem might be that the automatic shadows from the pale hands are a similar tone to the background so they are merging. I suppose I might be able to add a second set of dark hands underneath to cast stronger shadows. I’ll look into it. Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated!
But another trick: I create an extra shadow layer with PS, for each hand. With it you have far more control depending visibility and you can vary the position…
That looks awesome mate, I too never use the default shadows, I always create a dup and offset both X & Y by 5. I love the texture youve used and the overall clarity of it is superb.I really like the schematic drawing of the design too. I dream to create watches of this quality. Do you guys create them almost entirely outside of Creator and then just import it to add the moving parts like hands etc…
Well, i found a new way for better shadows for me.
I create them already in PS from the hands, in pure black, give them a black border and smooth it. In creator they get different offsets and visibilities, depending on their height.
