Missile Launch No.1

Specifications

1. Model: 1-48 Scale Academy MIG 21 PF
2. Finish: automotive acrylic spray paints, utilizing sludge wash weathering technique and utilized the Chinese Air Force Decals. In this case I have removed the starboard side air to air missle from it's rack
3. Shoot: just after rain in Bangkok out the back window of my apartment in Ekamai, in this case I have increased the resolution to the maximum my digital camera can take 5 megapixels.
4. Retouch: 1st I montaged in a missle launch from a pic I found on the web (see following). I had to resize and rotate it. I then cloned it make one version darken only and rubbbed out the contrail and the other lighten only where I rubbed out the missle and left over content.
   After this I added another layer in which I created a white cone to complete the rest of the smoke trail. To this layer I added blur a wave filter (to make the smoke less regular) , reduced its transperancy and then added noise to make it sink into the pic.
   
   Then I touched out the fishing line.
   
   The tailpipe looked a bit dark so I added a lit tail pipe from an F16 I found on the web (see following). I cut this out, flipped, made larger, rotated, reduced transperancy, blurred and added noise to make it sink in.
   
   I have added the original pic below also so you can see the start position.

Start Position Pic

Lit tail pipe source pic

Missile launch source pic