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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker C.5 drawings
« on: February 27, 2010, 05:46:21 PM »
Glad to see this project taking shape. Looking promising so far!
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Warplane Art / Re: Slice & Dice: air combat over Japan, 1946...
« on: July 21, 2009, 12:52:25 PM »
Thanks very much guys! Very happy you like it!
Nico, hehe, I'm afraid you'd need to talk to Ian Allan for that as I'm just one of the artists...
Nico, hehe, I'm afraid you'd need to talk to Ian Allan for that as I'm just one of the artists...
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Warplane Art / Slice & Dice: air combat over Japan, 1946...
« on: July 20, 2009, 05:02:05 AM »
Here's a piece of aviation art I completed earlier this year:
Click for larger image.
In-between family expansions (the second one less than a fortnight ago!) and non-aviation-related work, I managed to get some aviation art done. Here is the first of over a dozen of images, both 3D scenes and 2D profile art, which I created for Ian Allan's upcoming book about Japanese x-planes in the popular Midland Publishing Secret Projects series. I was lucky enough to be commissioned the front cover illustration, which is the image shown here.
I've dubbed the image "Slice & Dice". The scene is entirely speculative and shows a what-if "1946" scenario high over Japan. Having slashed their way through the ramjet-equipped P-51D Mustang escorts, a pair of Japanese Manshu Ki-98 fighters is diving on a formation of B-35 flying wing bombers. At the time of Japanese surrender in August 1945, all three aircraft were very much in prototype status and none would ever become operational. The Ki-98 was never finished and, though extensively test-flown, neither the B-35 nor the ramjet-equipped Mustang were found suitable for operational service.
Here is what the image looks like on the book cover:
More information about the book can be found here: http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/product.php?productid=67375&cat=1057&page=1
Once the book is released (planned for October this year), prints and t-shirts will become available on my new webshop at http://www.digitalaviationart.com and I will post more of the other artwork I created for the book.
Some close-up details:
The Army Type 3 gunsight (based on the Revi 12C), the big Ho-204 37mm cannon and the Ho-5 12.7mm machine gun (based on the famous Browning M2 .50cal):
And finally a size comparison profile of the Ki-98 with the P-51D Mustang. I couldn't quite fit the B-35 in there at the same scale!
Click for larger image.
Thanks for looking!
- Ronnie
Click for larger image.
In-between family expansions (the second one less than a fortnight ago!) and non-aviation-related work, I managed to get some aviation art done. Here is the first of over a dozen of images, both 3D scenes and 2D profile art, which I created for Ian Allan's upcoming book about Japanese x-planes in the popular Midland Publishing Secret Projects series. I was lucky enough to be commissioned the front cover illustration, which is the image shown here.
I've dubbed the image "Slice & Dice". The scene is entirely speculative and shows a what-if "1946" scenario high over Japan. Having slashed their way through the ramjet-equipped P-51D Mustang escorts, a pair of Japanese Manshu Ki-98 fighters is diving on a formation of B-35 flying wing bombers. At the time of Japanese surrender in August 1945, all three aircraft were very much in prototype status and none would ever become operational. The Ki-98 was never finished and, though extensively test-flown, neither the B-35 nor the ramjet-equipped Mustang were found suitable for operational service.
Here is what the image looks like on the book cover:
More information about the book can be found here: http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/product.php?productid=67375&cat=1057&page=1
Once the book is released (planned for October this year), prints and t-shirts will become available on my new webshop at http://www.digitalaviationart.com and I will post more of the other artwork I created for the book.
Some close-up details:
The Army Type 3 gunsight (based on the Revi 12C), the big Ho-204 37mm cannon and the Ho-5 12.7mm machine gun (based on the famous Browning M2 .50cal):
And finally a size comparison profile of the Ki-98 with the P-51D Mustang. I couldn't quite fit the B-35 in there at the same scale!
Click for larger image.
Thanks for looking!
- Ronnie
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Forums Works / Re: Let Let Let Warplanes will going down
« on: April 09, 2008, 01:16:13 PM »
Thanks for the update and good luck with the changes.
Regarding translations, I personally don't think there's any need for translations to Dutch. Almost everyone in Holland speaks English at a pretty decent level (as hardy anybody else speaks Dutch)
Personally I would always read the original English version of an article, even if there was a Dutch translation (I am Dutch for those who don't know). Dutch isn't a great language for technical terminology I find (ship builders will disagree!), and nothing is worse than having all well-known English terminology literally translated!
So in all, in my opinion effort spent on translating to Dutch is better spent on other improvements.
Just my 2 Euro cents of course!
Regarding translations, I personally don't think there's any need for translations to Dutch. Almost everyone in Holland speaks English at a pretty decent level (as hardy anybody else speaks Dutch)
Personally I would always read the original English version of an article, even if there was a Dutch translation (I am Dutch for those who don't know). Dutch isn't a great language for technical terminology I find (ship builders will disagree!), and nothing is worse than having all well-known English terminology literally translated!
So in all, in my opinion effort spent on translating to Dutch is better spent on other improvements.Just my 2 Euro cents of course!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 19, 2007, 01:02:00 AM »
Hmmm... has similarities to both CAMS and Latecoere designs... 
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 17, 2007, 10:52:35 PM »
You are good! 
Go on, stun us with your next mystery!
Go on, stun us with your next mystery!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 11:31:39 PM »
How about one rule?: Whoever guesses right places the next mystery plane
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 11:27:55 PM »
Haha, my memory didn't let me down. It's the mockup of the AGO FP-30 (Ao 225).
Okay here's my reply to that one...
Okay here's my reply to that one...
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 09:47:16 PM »
Hehe yea that was an easy one, but Nico's last one is still keeping me entertained. I am 100% sure it's German and if I'm not mistaken it's an AGO. But which one...?
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 04:58:18 PM »
Wingman81, the Arado L I is a different plane altogether: http://histaviation.com/Arado_L_1.html
So that one is solved - it was the L II
Here's the real NA-18, so that one's solved too. On to Nico's plane... looks very familiar! Hmmm... let's think...
So that one is solved - it was the L II
Here's the real NA-18, so that one's solved too. On to Nico's plane... looks very familiar! Hmmm... let's think...
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 11:24:53 AM »
I've consulted with Doug and Nico was right all along: the photo I posted was the NA-16 afterall! The site I found it on (Aerofiles) has it labelled wrongly. The NA-18 had a different engine and the back seat position is different. Sorry for the mix-up... the NA-16 series is one big minefield! 
The NJ-1 is indeed an NJ-1 though
The NJ-1 is indeed an NJ-1 though
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 16, 2007, 12:55:15 AM »
There's only one man on earth who can sort em all out by heart, and that's Doug MacPhail. He's been teaching me for years and I still have trouble!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Quizzzzz
« on: December 15, 2007, 09:26:09 PM »
I found it via Google: http://images.google.com/images?q=fokker+v-1 
And if you search for NA-16... now I've said too much!
And if you search for NA-16... now I've said too much!