Technical Drawing for Field Manuals, etc

[shooterm1]

we've all seen these renderings in various Army Ord publications, but can anyone shed some light on the exact technique used to produce these enhanced drawings from photographs?

presumably they used an overhead projection of the original photo to give the artist his subject on paper.

also, this style of rendering has to have a name ....... does anyone know what they call this peculiar method of duplication?

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[Jim Tarleton]

Isn't the scope turned 90 degrees counterclockwise from where it should be?

No idea how that drawing was done, but they sure look good.

Jim

[Johnny Peppers]

The scope is positioned correctly.

[JGaynor]

[QUOTE=shooterm1;26962]we've all seen these renderings in various Army Ord publications, but can anyone shed some light on the exact technique used to produce these enhanced drawings from photographs?

presumably they used an overhead projection of the original photo to give the artist his subject on paper.

also, this style of rendering has to have a name ....... does anyone know what they call this peculiar method of duplication?

I don't know exactly how the isllustrations were done for the manuals but i don't think they are drawings. I have an original of TM-9-1270 which uses a lot of the same illustrations as TM 9-270. In an original its possible to make out the rifle's serial number, stock markings and a lot of detail. I suspect that when Raritan Arsenal Publications Department was doing their thing they went directly from photographs to print.

Considering the number of documents they had to prepare doing renderings, even aided by machine, probably would have been too time consuming.

Regards,

Jim

[JGaynor]

The scope is positioned correctly.

Rotationg the scope is a logical mistake Jim, especially for a right handed shooter. Your groups should improve now!

Regards,

Jim

[m4carbine]

In Scott duffs Garand book there some info on how these pics were taken.

I do know that the negatives would be "Retouched" by hand, it used to be a real art form, until digital, now some snot nosed "I'm a PC" kid can do what it used to take a craftsman to do.

[limazulu]

In Scott duffs Garand book there some info on how these pics were taken.

I do know that the negatives would be "Retouched" by hand, it used to be a real art form, until digital, now some snot nosed "I'm a PC" kid can do what it used to take a craftsman to do.

Photographers would also cut the things they wanted out of a photograph assemble them together and rephotograph what they assembled.

The word decoupage comes to mind but I don't know if it applies here or even if I spelled it correctly.