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The Grubby Truth is a monthly newsletter from Grubby Fingers Aircraft Illustration.

The Grubby Truth keeps you up to date by telling you when new walkarounds and photo galleries are added to the site, when new prints and profiles become available, new decal sheets and modelling articles. You can see what's on the drawing board and what is in the pipeline. We try to include a useful freebie from time to time. Ed 1 had some scale plans for a helo landing trolley, and Ed 2 had a print-out and paste-down model display base and there is an ongoing series of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials.

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The Grubby Truth Back Issues

Back issues are available by clicking on the image. This will initiate the download of a PDF file of the indicated size.

Edition 1 included some scale plans for a helicopter landing trolley. Click image above to download 1.87mb PDF file.

Edition 2 included a print-out and stick-down model display base. Click image above to download 1.87mb PDF file.

Edition 3 included a print-out and stick-down PSP / Marsden Matting model display base. Click image above to download 1.91mb PDF file.

Edition 4 has a tutorial on transfering paths from Illustrator to Photoshop. Click image above to download 2.05mb PDF file.

Edition 5 has an Illustrator tutorial showing the basics of Gradient Mesh. Click image above to download 2.13mb PDF file.

Edition 6 has a Photoshop tutorial on shading complex images. Click image above to download 1.82mb PDF file.

Edition 7 has a Photoshop tutorial on using the Levels midpoint slider to improve reference photos. Click image above to download 2.13mb PDF file.

Edition 8 has a modelling tutorial on using thin metal foil to duplicate textures and some scale plans for float landing-gear for Bell Iroquios helicopters. Click image above to download 2.1mb PDF file.