The blacks in the background still kill the blacks on the plane, hi-res or not.

Absolutely gorgeous. I love the tones and the mood.

Great tribute to a great flyer Author!
There are several documentaries about this great aviator, I think the one you mentioned Bob is "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" (the same one shown in the link you provided). It's a great story very well done with Kathy Bates voicing the words of Pancho Barnes.
BTW the officers mess at Edwards AFB is named "The Pancho Barnes Room".

http://www.legendofpanchobarnes.com/film/index.php
There's a full length documentary I saw a while ago on Netflix, but forgot the title.

Fantastic image, author, love the dramatic lighting in the sky now, and the contrast of the primary colors. Great background story as well.

Good image. Dark areas of plane die against dark clouds.

very good modeling, lighting,texturing and presentation my favorite.

i would suggest either finding clearer images of the ladies, or blurring the background to match the amount of blur on the girls. fun idea!

Nice work, author. Good detail of the little plastic thingy between the strings. Love the engraving on the stand at the top.

Well done author, and nice SBS too. Good luck!

oh this is like every 80's car magazine that ever was LOL

Look at the helo shadow for light direction.

fun, but your shadows don't look right.

that room looks like and Old lady's purse threw up! good luck author, very cute chop

Thank you author for your compliment! Much appreciated!

almost to well blended, I'm having trouble seeing the introduced images... have no idea how to solve it.. but it's still a very great chop

This looks nice author! Nice work!

Congrats ichappell

congrats

Congrats Loyd!!

Congrats, nice job!

Congrats!

Amazing reflections and tones. GL author

Great one, nice reflections and cool idea. GL

So real!!!

Nice colors on this one, with curved and straight shapes to complement each other.

Really cool image, author. Nice reflections and colors on all the elements.

Fooled me, too, excellent blending, author! Seamless work.

Soooo retro comic book, author! Very nice.

Nice one. Good luck author

Maybe give the sound effect a gradient or something to differentiate it from the color of the burst, and tone down the graininess of the background, which competes with the grain on the aircraft.

Congrats, Loyd!

So it wasn't my imagination! Drivenslush, I suggest you to come back with someone else's eyes, I'm shortsighted and a little astigmatic!!! Take care!

I FOUND THE VERTICAL LINE!!! It's in the water right at the end of the pier, and I had to use my super duper magnifier on my computer to find it LOL (It really isn't noticeable, but boy did my curiosity get peeked (Note to self, in my second life come back with rusvelt2000's eyes )

Super well blended, great find with that matching sunlight on the girl

Incredibly well made, I like the way you adapted the tones to the new image, also the splashes make it feel real. P.S.: I can see a vertical line at the end of the pier, maybe is some mask residue, or it's just my imagination. Good luck author!

nice use of source and good blending

very realistic, amazing job author

Very nice, great idea.

Nice work, author, I like the added touch of the worn spots.

It looks real...you did a good job in the blending.... good luck author.

good use of source

Awesome! I like music history.

The end result is really great.

Very nice! Wood tones and shiny parts look good. Very cool that you also made the flag, the grunge is a nice contrast.

Nice job with the twin! Shadows work... looks like the twin had some lunch, does he share?

ewwww

HOW DO THEY POOP!!??!?!?!! giggle snort, great Chop

Nicely done! Clever and simple, yet perfectly on theme.

splice is barely visible, where the top head crosses the snake body. Color balancing (Ctrl-B, then slide from magenta to green and blue to yellow) would improve the match.

Nice lights and tones on it. Take care to the insertion area on the left, Is easy to see a slanting line of different tone.