Jacket's I've painted over the last year or so . . . with some lost in a fire.

[Fyve_By_Fyve]

I painted my first jacket during the Covid shut down of 2020. Since then I've done quite a few. I sold them at my shop as well as on eBay. Unfortunately my shop burned to the ground last month, taking with it a number of these jackets.

I have really enjoyed painting these and feel as though I have improved with each one. I've always tried to make them as historically accurate as possible but early on I made some mistakes. At first I was just painting them on any jacket that was modeled after an A-2, G-1 or G-3. Now I'm going to only paint those actual type repros from good companies. The research is as much fun as painting the jackets as each is really a tribute to the guys who flew these aircraft during the war.

I'm going to continue painting these and have just gotten a couple of Cooper A-2's and an Avirex. I may do some tribute jackets for particular aces as well as recreating the WASP jacket, which was sadly lost in the fire.

Here's some photos of the jackets & patches that I've done thus far . . .

 

[Fyve_By_Fyve]

Here are a few more that I did last year. Took these from my Instagram feed (fyvebyfyve on Instagram).

All hand painted. This was a Gibson & Barnes. Quality jacket. Sold for $550.00.

All hand painted by me. This was the third jacket I painted. It was a 1970's vintage jacket. Kind of like a G-1 or G-3.

This is the one squadron patch that I did not paint. Got it on eBay. The Air Corps patch is a WW2 original.

This was the second jacket I ever painted. I've gotten better since. The jacket was a mall brand.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Nice work, fyve. Hang around and show and tell with some of very talented patch makers-painters, and jacket nose artists haunting these halls.

 

[Fyve_By_Fyve]

I sure will! Glad to have found this forum. I'm sure I'll get some great ideas from it and hopefully share some as well.

I just got four more jackets (3 Coopers and an Avirex). Plan on painting these over the next couple of months.

 

[Fyve_By_Fyve]

This is the fire that destroyed my business:

 

[Fyve_By_Fyve]

Honored to have one of my jackets on display in the Queensland Air Museum. Sent it to them over the summer.

I made the patch for this one out of cut & sewn felt.