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March 1944
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TankBuster
Active Member
Hey, what's wrong with squadron patches? :lol: 
Seriously though, without patches and paintings ect., I really don't think I would have ever become interested in the A-2. Now however, I can surely appreciate a nice clean original, but it definitely wasn't always that way. Purely my point of view of course.
Great pictures by the way!
Seriously though, without patches and paintings ect., I really don't think I would have ever become interested in the A-2. Now however, I can surely appreciate a nice clean original, but it definitely wasn't always that way. Purely my point of view of course.
Great pictures by the way!
deand
Active Member
TankBuster said:Hey, what's wrong with squadron patches? :lol:
Seriously though, without patches and paintings ect., I really don't think I would have ever become interested in the A-2. Now however, I can surely appreciate a nice clean original, but it definitely wasn't always that way. Purely my point of view of course.
Great pictures by the way!
I love the patches! I'm surprised they don't have any.
dean
watchmanjimg
Well-Known Member
Swing said:
My great-uncle lost half a lung when some idiot next to him mishandled a loaded .45. The warnings about not pointing a weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot are well taken indeed.
TankBuster
Active Member
deand said:TankBuster said:Hey, what's wrong with squadron patches? :lol:
Seriously though, without patches and paintings ect., I really don't think I would have ever become interested in the A-2. Now however, I can surely appreciate a nice clean original, but it definitely wasn't always that way. Purely my point of view of course.
Great pictures by the way!
I love the patches! I'm surprised they don't have any.
Gotcha. I misread your post. I love them too!
But, it is neat to see these without them, and the super graining on some the jackets.
better duck
Well-Known Member
Hey Oose, that photoshopping of you is amazing, it looks so natural! How did you do it? Could you do it to the rest of the photo as well, i.e. could you make a B&W photo into a colour pic?
oose
Active Member
Hi Peter,
Sorry to say that I have no amazing photoshop skill, although I've been working with it for at least 10 years now. I just found the colour versions of the prints online and manipulated the perspective to fit those on the wall and then a little blending and cutting out only a 20 min job. As for colourising B&W photos it can be done and have done so in the past for jobs but that is a real art and I tend to leave that now to people much more capable than myself.
Do you think that these large prints were sent out as moral boosting or to use as templates for aircraft nose art?
yours stu
Sorry to say that I have no amazing photoshop skill, although I've been working with it for at least 10 years now. I just found the colour versions of the prints online and manipulated the perspective to fit those on the wall and then a little blending and cutting out only a 20 min job. As for colourising B&W photos it can be done and have done so in the past for jobs but that is a real art and I tend to leave that now to people much more capable than myself.
Do you think that these large prints were sent out as moral boosting or to use as templates for aircraft nose art?
yours stu
better duck
Well-Known Member
Thanks for your answer Stu. As to you theory:oose said:
If they were "sent out" at all: that would be an official action, and I doubt if there ever was anything like that with the pinup-merchandise. My guess would be, that even that extremely well done artwork on the walls on the photographs was the initiative of a local artist on that particular base. Look at the talents our forummembers display! It would have been the same then. If the alternative were true, we would have seen many more - identical - wallpapering on period photos of readyrooms and the like.
Here's a photo of the officers mess at Glatton, home of the 457th BG: at the far end you see two Elvgren pinups:
And a close-up:
I'd be interested to hear and see about other life-size of more than lifesize examples of pinups.
I don't think those Vargas examples were done by an artist. You can see in the photo that they are EXACT, right down to the typography and placement of the signature. They most like were done in the photographic department, and blown up on one of the stat cameras for blowing up recce photos of enemy positions or bomb damage.
better duck
Well-Known Member
My thoughts exactlyDjango said:
Swing said:oose said:Hi
Few more...
Chamber closed, finger on the trigger, pointed at the chest of the man next to you. Looks like the hammer is down though.... :roll:
Good photos!
Yes dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as flying around over a country full of really pissed off Nazis firing a whole bunch off flak at you
.....almost as silly as pointing a gun at a camera
~Swing
