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Along with this image I offer a cautionary warning. When sets out to do a piece of art concerning an object that really exists it is in your best interest to thourghly research the subject before proceeding to final piece. Ever since seeing "The Right Stuff" I've had a strong appreciation for the lines of the F-104 Starfighter.
When I did this piece I had intended it to be a F-104C, but I failed to notice that one of my references had accidentally mislabeled a G Model as being also a C variant. Of course it was the best image I had so blithely reproduced the mistake. About year after doing the piece I was showing to some co-workers when a lady/ customer walked up to me flatly stated that I had the wrong plane. I assured her that I had done my research but she then pointed out that her father had flown in that squadron and she had at one time been the squadron's historian! She proceeded to explain that father had been the wingman to the specific aircraft I'd used in this piece......Oops!
It is from several years ago and it from a time when I was learning how to render clouds so I could much better nowdays .
When I did this piece I had intended it to be a F-104C, but I failed to notice that one of my references had accidentally mislabeled a G Model as being also a C variant. Of course it was the best image I had so blithely reproduced the mistake. About year after doing the piece I was showing to some co-workers when a lady/ customer walked up to me flatly stated that I had the wrong plane. I assured her that I had done my research but she then pointed out that her father had flown in that squadron and she had at one time been the squadron's historian! She proceeded to explain that father had been the wingman to the specific aircraft I'd used in this piece......Oops!
It is from several years ago and it from a time when I was learning how to render clouds so I could much better nowdays .
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Oh don't get me going about locomotives! I had a similar scenario at an art show about 15 years before this incident involving an old codger who had been the fireman on the locomotive I had decided to paint! What aggravated the situation even more was that the old geezer was able to quote the exact sources I'd used for piece! Right down to the month of the magazine and the pages in issue that had referred to. Ugh! I was run into these folks after I've finished the piece.
LoL! Rivet Counters! I like it. when I use to compete in model competitions there was old crumudgen who use to be a judge in the SoCal area who I swear must of had the the number rivets required to build any US. aircraft in WWII memorized! The real pain was he was usually right. My answer to him was build aircraft he'd never seen in the flesh and blood. lots of Soviet and French and Italian stuff.
Hmmm the tail number you used seems to be a C variant http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large.....cial/wV902.htm
Did she point out what externally separated a C from a G? I work on C-5s Both As and B model the only thing outside the Aircraft that gives it away from being an A vs B model is the antenna on the front visor.
Did she point out what externally separated a C from a G? I work on C-5s Both As and B model the only thing outside the Aircraft that gives it away from being an A vs B model is the antenna on the front visor.
upon further research A G variant is just an upgraded C variant http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/types/u.....-104/f-104.htm I a sence you both are right.
Lightnings managed it too? Well if anything else could it would be them. I know that the 104s made the intercept at 87k and climbing at Mach 2.24 standard. Lightnings are about the only other thing with a combination of the speed, wing, and light weight that might have managed it until the MiG-25 which was made to go after 71s anyway.
lol lightnings had the first automatic weapons systems and could take off in an 90 degrees angle; still they sucked the fuel tanks dry and their weapons systems were poor... however at one point in the Suez canal crisis RAF (or RSAF- Saudi Arabia) Lightnings almost went against mustangs XD
Actually the tail markings are from the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing that was based at George AFB in California during late 1959. There only three aircraft that had the fuselage bands which indentify them as Wing Commanders. It is really annoying that FA does not let the poster know that other members are replying to each other and not the submitter since it looks like rather interesting concervation has been going on and I was unaware of it!
Well they are actually some my earlier clouds so I find them rather painful to look at myself! The general theory is to blend the color pencil with turpentine using a paper towel or cotton swab, Q-tip, so that I can soften the edges of the clouds and produce smooth color blends. Now I do much better clouds that look like real clouds instead cotton candy like these do!
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