Have a nice contract in at the moment that’s allowing me to do some pretty cool clean-up work on some old B&W images. This one wasn’t so bad as the B&W image source was very clean to begin with. The file was enormous and was obviously worked on quite a bit already. Still, it was nice to see it even cleaner and in colour. The funny part is the rust! What i forgot to think about was at what stage of the ship building the photo was taken. You might think, well, it looks finished….. but it wasn’t! Hence the reason it was all rusty in places.
When the ship was finally launched it was painted and cleaned up to look perfect. I thought the rust may have come while it was at sea (yea, we know that didn’t last long) so I kept it in the final.
Off I go now to give her a new paint job 