Spitfire

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 3850085, member: 45"]Not Concorde and the P-38J Lightning?[/QUOTE]


Or the Vulcan?

 

[accountantpete]

I still want a Spitfire, a Catalina and a 747, the three best-looking aircraft ever.

How about a K-7

 

[Fab Foodie]

Had a bit of trouble with the propellers but think I managed to salvage them. What do you think? It's for my brothers birthday tomorrow (well, today, after I've gone to sleep)
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That's ace buggi, well done! What a great gift too ....

 

[Globalti]

A 747? Really? Each to their own I suppose.

The 747 has a superbly purposeful, forward-moving look to it and has probably changed the world more than any other single aircraft:

Catalina somehow attracts the eye in its curves and its perfectly-designed functionality:

And if course the most beautiful:

 

[byegad]

Catalina pretty?

Each to ones own. For me in order of Wow!ness

Spitfire MkVB
TSR2
Hawker Hunter Mk6
Concorde
Hawker Sea Fury.

 

[buggi]

Nice painting and I wouldn't mess around with it any more; nobody will notice the lack of authenticity. The good thing is that it's clear that a lot of effort and patience has gone into it. You have a pleasingly simple, naive style that reminds me somehow of Beryl Cook, who flourished in the 80s or Alex Colville the Canadian artist. Best of all you capture the sweeping graceful lines of the Spitfire perfectly.

I'm gonna get you to write my reviews hehe.

I'm sure plenty of fanatics would find things wrong with it, it's most likely a hybrid of different models to start with as i used lots of photos but my brother won't know and he's really happy with it, even though he's only seen it on Facebook so far and its a metre long so i hope he will be even more happy when he sees it in the flesh. And it was a pain in the ass to get those lines right. The cloud on the wing and tail cover up mistakes (shhhh)

 

[buggi]

... all the letters and numbers mean something to him as well so it's personalised for him

 

[Dayvo]

Very good, buggi! Give him some of these, too:

I went to an air display a few years ago in Oslo. Everyone raved about the F-16 (and impressive it was, too) but didn't come near the Spitfire.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0KsbByBwk


I had tears in my eyes, as did a few other Brits nearby.

 

[tyred]

Well done, it's a Triumph...

 

[ArDee]

Living near to Biggin Hill, sometimes the air is thick with Spitfires.

Our local fete was beaten up by a Mark XXVI the other week. There were grown men with tears in their eyes and it wasn't the sun.

I live near Duxford, it's very similar here Spitfires, Hurricanes, the Lancaster and other stuff always flying over. We seem to get a lot of hot air balloons coming over as well. We had a Barbecue a little while ago and a hot air balloon came down so low they were able to shout down and ask us to pass them up and sausage.

 

[ArDee]

Sorry buggi forgot to comment on picture; looks very good to me - I'd be honoured if I was given that for my birthday. (You're not a long lost relation are you?)

 

[stephec]

Catalina pretty?

Each to ones own. For me in order of Wow!ness

Spitfire MkVB
TSR2
Hawker Hunter Mk6
Concorde
Hawker Sea Fury.

The Mosquito should be near the top of that list for me.

@buggi - It's spiffing, top hole old bean.

 

[midlife]

Way better than I could do

Yep, I had planes on strings, all the usual culprits including SM 79 Italian air force, HS129, and Destiny Angel from Captain Scarlet. Plus a variety of ships and historical figures.

Shaun

 

[Moon bunny]

Well done, and your style seems to capture the style of the 1940s posters I have been studying lately.

 

[Dayvo]

We seem to get a lot of hot air balloons coming over as well. We had a Barbecue a little while ago and a hot air balloon came down so low they were able to shout down and ask us to pass them up and sausage.

Hope you told 'em where to shove that sausage! Bloody gatecrashers fuelled up on the champers, no doubt!