Now that the bubble is rendered in, I revisited the side cove. I decided to shorten it towards the front. So I activated the outer cove path, Menu-Edit/Copy/Edit Paste/, Edit/Transform/Distort, then click/hold the center right handle and began shortening the cove. What happened next is typical of my experiences in p-shop; as I shortened the new cove layer, the original cove layer below it came into view. I continued shortening the cove to what you see here. Did a little adjusting, redrew the path to now have twin coves and touched up the hilights. Kind of excited, I finished painting the trim around the bubble. Eliminated the rear chrome fin and painted in a new body section that runs the length of the car underneath ending with a new fin styled like the big one. The far fin is a new copy of the near fin, pasted as a layer, distorted a bit and darkened. We see it through two layers of bubble. It needs to look different, somehow…

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I always jump to another area of the painting when I’m stumped with a design problem. To quote Qui-Gon Jinn, “A solution will present itself.” I have been waiting to letter a tag for the front bumper. Likewise, I’ve been writing a backstory about this jet-car. One of the details in the story involves Tralfaz, the dog of the car’s owner. After the type is set and rendered into pixels, I distorted it into perspective, duplicated it to make the drop shadow (in a sign painters style), then merged the type layer with the bumper layer. I used the tag’s path to copy the tag, paste it in, flip it horizontally and squish it to make a reflection in the chrome. An important detail. Or not.

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Made a new layer to experiment with a foggy glow from the lights. It gives the scene atmosphere.

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It’s so close to finished, but I wanted to add a unique detail, something to contemplate, like how do I get into a hovering Jet-car? With my tumbler churning everything into butter, then SNAP, the step-up from my pop’s combat airplane. It was retractible, light weight and very strong, plus it jutted from a curved surface similar to my jet-car. I raided my computer’s files again and found some views of the step-up. Below is the illustration of the step-up and at right, Pop posing with No. 13, his airplane while in-country, VungTau, South VietNam in 1964. Click Pop’s pic for a larger view.

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