New HBO series planned

From the guys that brought you 'Band of Brothers,' and 'The Pacific.'
This new 10 part series will be about the 'Mighty eighth'.
Tom Hanks and Mr Spielberg are of course involved.

Don't forget!!

Anyone going to the, 'War and Peace,' show this year?
If so, I'll be wearing the Incendiary blonde A2. Say hello.

Don't forget in August there will be two Lancaster's flying together in England!
The Canadian one has come over for this. These are the last two flying Lancs in the world.

If anyone has painted a jacket, it would be good to see a pic of it.

Starting new jacket soon

Hi.
Long time, no type.
I will be starting work on another jacket soon. This one will be for myself.
So I will probabl sell the 'Heavenly body' jacket on ebay soon.

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Final Lady Luck image/s

Finally found these two images hiding in a random place on the hard drive.

Hello again! Just wanted to point people in the right direction on the jacket painting. Please go to the blogs from 2010 for the step by step blogs. Also, i'm going to start on another jacket in the near future. Probably May. I have also been thinking about the website and content for it. So there will be more than just how to paint the jackets on it. I will also put up the final image of the 'Lady Luck,' jacket soon. A

Lady luck progress

Hi all.
Here's a progress image of the jacket Lady Luck.
Tricky one at the beginning, as the jacket had been treated with a waterproof coating, or something. I had to go over the artwork several times. It's fine now though.
I really happy with it so far.

Anyone else painting anything?

B17 film

Am waiting for the jacket (Lady luck) to arrive from the states. Should be soon.

Bought a film called Fortress. It's about B17's in the med during the war.
Not one real 17 in the film. All CGI. But, I really liked it.

Still, the best film, is 12 O clock high. This stars Gregory Peck as a commander sent to take over a demoralised 'hard luck,' bomb group. This film is more about the huge stress placed onto crew flying missions and it's effect on the different characters in the film.

Have a look at the synopsis on Wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_O%27Clock_High

Back to work

I've been a bit quiet recently, as my company cut a few people (due to recession), myself included. So I have been running around looking for work. So now I'm working as a freelancer designing identities and brochures and have some stuff lined up.

So, things are a bit more stable in my life and I'm going to start on the new jacket commissioned from someone in the US. This jacket will be called 'Lady luck.'

I will hopefully be painting early December.

And another!

From the States.
From a lady no less. Hope you manage to get your jacket soon K.
I have found a good piece of reference.

Another possible commission

Slightly different request. This time they want to have nose art added to an old Motorbike brand. Should be a bit of fun.

Thank you Texas

For the highest hits again this month, according to Google analytics.
If anyone is working on a jacket, it would be nice to see the progress.

I've been thinking about making this into a website. Rather than just blogging.
This means I can have more info on A2's, paint materials, reference etc.

It would also allow other people to post thier stuff as well.

There are numerous sites out there with free templates.

Another inquiry!

This time it's to put nose art on a bike jacket.

Done!

Finished the new Jacket "Jezebelle.' I'm very happy with how it turned out.
This is also the first one to have a bomb group and squadron painted on as well.

Jezebelle jacket

Some progress pics of the new jacket.
This is dedicated to a crew of the 91bg,324Sqn (requested by the jacket owner).

Liberty Belle

What a great shame. At least no one was hurt.

Jezebelle

Is the name chosen for the commissioned jacket. I started work on it at the weekend.
This has to be ready for the end of July. I strongly recommend using the carbon type paper to trace down the artwork. Make sure that the colour of the paper is strong enough to be seen on the white base coat when tracing down the pin up. I used red.
I'll put up images of the progress.

Onwards

The Commissioned jacket has arrived.
They want to call it Jezebelle and add 91st BG.

There is a nice Gil Elvgren image i've been thinking of using for a jacket.

By the way. has anybody painted a jacket yet?
It would be great if someone did.

Nearly finished

Just needs some tidying up and another shadow layer on the text. Then I'll get some better images taken. After that, I'll put it on ebay and hope someone likes it.

I just got a commission. So it will be straight on to the next jacket, which will arrive soon. This is a bit scarier as it's someone else's jacket.

Development

Did a bit more at the weekend.
Worked on the face a bit and the chocolate box. Also the hands.

Work in progress

Far from finished.
The skin tones on her back still need the highlights put on. Looks like she has sun burn at the mo. Happy about the hands too. Fingers and toes can be a real pain, when you are trying to paint something quite fine on the leather grain.