Spitfire

[Tail End Charlie]

Great pic, what a superb present.

 

[buggi]

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

Can't take all the credit, there are other paintings on t'internet that are similar style. In the end I grabbed the best pic of white cliffs and the best pics of spitfires and came out with that. Think a few other artists have done similar

 

[buggi]

One thing I did notice while painting this which I never really thought of before, is what a sick sense of humour the Brits have. Who, in their right mind, paints camouflage on a plane and then paints targets on it?

 

[Gravity Aided]

One thing I did notice while painting this which I never really thought of before, is what a sick sense of humour the Brits have. Who, in their right mind, paints camouflage on a plane and then paints targets on it?

 

[byegad]

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

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

Yes I can see that, If I'd gone on the Hornet and the Mosquito would have certainly been in my top twenty.

 

[colly]

...very nice, a budding artist I reckon. Reminds me of the Airfix models I used to make as kid - Spifire, Hurricane etc all dangling from the bedroom ceiling from cotton strings. Then, when I got my first air gun, shot them all to smithereens.................as you do......

I blew my Airfix models up with bangers. Surprisingly, with rockets taped to them they kind of had a good attempt at flying as well.

 

[FrankCrank]

Colly - you could have got a job on Thunderbirds

 

[jonny jeez]

Not the only one.........................Loved doing that too... used to drive my pops mad as he used to spend hours helping and subsequently taking over making them.

Hot wheel were good for that too, fill,em with lighther fluid, crank em up and watch the flaming loop the loop.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Look what the 15 y/o lad's doing on his hols as a break from the Xbox ....

 

[Saddle bum]

Had a Spitfire and Hurricane over the house this morning, (whilst I was servicing the bike). As they flew over, in line astern, they each put their wheels down as they approached Biggin Hill.

 

[Spinney]

I too had airfix models suspended from the ceiling when I were a lass.

Tears in eyes moment - went to the flying proms at the Shuttleworth collection many years ago - it started just before dusk, and to the background of WWII songs/marches, a spitfire appeared climbing from behind some trees and did a display...

(and I was born long after the war ended!)

Faves:
Spitfire
SR-71 blackbird
Catalina - kind of ugly but beautiful, with all the gun turrets and things
almost any biplane
Vulcan - just cos I used to sit on the end of the runway when they were landing at RAF Luqa and the sky went dark and very, very loud

 

[ianrauk]

Had a Spitfire and Hurricane over the house this morning, (whilst I was servicing the bike). As they flew over, in line astern, they each put their wheels down as they approached Biggin Hill.

Was on the BBC news this morning
Aircraft including 18 Spitfires and six Hurricanes will fly over south-east England later to mark 75 years since the Battle of Britain's "Hardest Day".

The event will recall 18 August 1940, when Bromley's Biggin Hill and other South East military bases came under attack from the Luftwaffe.

The special commemoration, staged from the former RAF airfield at Biggin Hill, now a commercial airport, will honour the pilots, engineers, armourers, operations staff and ground crews who faced attack from the Nazi Luftwaffe on that day.

The day will be marked with three flight formations which will take off from the airport at 12:45 BST:

• Grice flight: Eight aircraft will head south and west to fly over Surrey and West Sussex to the Solent, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and return via Dunsfold
• Mortimer flight: Eight aircraft will head over Eynsford, Chelsfield, Detling, Farningham, Downe and RAF Kenley
• Hamlyn flight: Eight aircraft will fly over Sevenoaks, Yalding, Ashford and the former RAF Hawkinge, with a special salute over the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-Le-Ferne on the white cliffs of Dover

Had to go to work other wise I would have sat in the garden all morning with a cuppa to watch.

 

[winjim]

I thought this thread was going to be about my new bike...

Anyway, as far as fighter jets go, the Russians just knock everything else into a cocked hat. It's a shame they haven't brought anything to Farnborough for the last few shows, but with the recent escalation of hostilities, maybe they'll return.


And for commercial liners, have you seen what the A380's capable of? For something that size it's insanely maneuverable. And much better looking than any Boeing.

 

[Fnaar]

I was cr@p at making airfix models ... always ended up with glue everywhere, and paint jobs that were, frankly, rubbish.
Although I made a great Concorde once, but accidentally sat on it, breaking a wing.

 

[Fnaar]

I've been having a go at making some with Miss Goodbody recently, but there's sticky goo all over my fuselage.