Z-20 (all variants) thread

[no_name]

Hey Deino, look...

(1280 x 960)

 

[DigoSSA]

The reason of it being called fake is because of the location of the tail rotor.
Photos that are believed to be real have the tail rotor blades on the right side when looking from the tail to the front of the craft.
This particular photo shows the rotor blades on the left side.

Changing the location of the rotor blades is a big design change, I don't think it is the case here.

But both are on the same side.

 

[Deino]

Yes, but if You look at #402 the that Z-20-CG is simply mirrored !

 

[Quickie]

The reason of it being called fake is because of the location of the tail rotor.
Photos that are believed to be real have the tail rotor blades on the right side when looking from the tail to the front of the craft.
This particular photo shows the rotor blades on the left side.

Changing the location of the rotor blades is a big design change, I don't think it is the case here.

Z-18 has the tail rotor on the left side.

 

[taxiya]

But both are on the same side.

The upper one is the same fake photo but just mirrored (left-right). Therefor, it gets it "right".

 

[taxiya]

Z-18 has the tail rotor on the left side.

I was talking about Z-20. Z-18 has it on the left side from its beginning, it doesn't make Z-20 switching from right to left any easier or possible.

 

[taxiya]

I really "hate" these meaningless CGs, fan-arts.

 

[Quickie]

I was talking about Z-20. Z-18 has it on the left side from its beginning, it doesn't make Z-20 switching from right to left any easier or possible.

Ok then.

The other thing I wanted to comment is that, a genuine CG can also be flipped around for a number of reason, e.g. to align the images in the same direction just for aesthetic reason. So the fact that an image is flipped in what is clearly an illustration (not a genuine camera shot of a scene) doesn't necessary mean it's not genuine.

 

[Quickie]

The upper one is the same fake photo but just mirrored (left-right). Therefor, it gets it "right".

Actually, this should be the way the original image was depicted. This same image was "wrongly" flipped in the other picture.

 

[taxiya]

Ok then.

The other thing I wanted to comment is that, a genuine CG can also be flipped around for a number of reason, e.g. to align the images in the same direction just for aesthetic reason. So the fact that an image is flipped in what is clearly an illustration (not a genuine camera shot of a scene) doesn't necessary mean it's not genuine.

that depens on how you define genuine. Genuine, to me, means a representation of the real thing. A CG may or may not represent the real thing, unlike a photo taken of the real thing. And there is no way that we can say the CG actually represent the real thing.

Also, the original question was about whether that CG was a real photo or not. And my answer was that it is a fake. Fake in the sense that it is not a photo of real Z-20, not necessarily wrong depiction of the real Z-20. But likely to be wrong as whoever flipped it apparently does not have the knowledge of the true configuration of Z-20.

One more observation I forgot to mention is the cover of the exhaust with slits. The cover seems to be copy/pasted from air intakes of other helicopter. You can find something similar from Super Stallion.