Classic Aircraft in Aviation Art

Classic Aircraft in Aviation Art
Author: Roger Markman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1994-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780943231648

Celebrates six WWII aircraft: Spitfire, Lancaster, B-17 Flying Fortress, Messerschmitt 109, P-51 Mustang, and P- 47 Thunderbolt.

Vintage Aircraft Nose Art

Vintage Aircraft Nose Art
Author: Gary Valant
Publisher: Zenith Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0760312087

The unique art that graced military aircraft in World War II and the Korean War. Applied by amateurs or professional artists like Vargas, the art typically featured alluring women whose charms belied the deadly cargo the crew hoped to deliver to its targets. Hundreds of examples are shown in a combination of archival photos from the wars and current photos of artwork in museum collections.

Art of the Airways

Art of the Airways
Author: Geza Szurovy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781610600927

Capture the glory of flight in this nostalgic look back at the colorful posters that lured yesterday's passengers to take to the air. Constellations, tri-motors, and DC-3s are featured decked-out in the liveries of their owners and presented in stunning color artworks created by such famed artists as Norman Rockwell, Calder, and other popular painters. Nostalgic poster art contained within tells the history of yesteryear's airways through its free-spirited and colorful advertising.

Fighting Colors

Fighting Colors
Author: Gary Velasco
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Airplanes, Military
ISBN: 1563119870

This new book by Artist/author Gary Velasco is an illustrated history on the creation of military aircraft nose art. This comprehensive volume covers the technical aspects of how nose art was applied to vintage military aircraft and the uses of materials, supplies and development of nose art designs as researched through discussions with surviving nose artists. The author examines and analyzes the WW II era b/w photographs and reveals their color content along with many never-before-published photos, thereby recreating step-by-step actual flying warbird nose art restorations for the first time. Fighting Colors is a graphic tool for all enthusiasts of pinup and vintage aircraft nose art. For artists, this book will outline what the masters knew when the age of sign painting, along with a little bit of imagination and brushes, was a common trade. For veterans and their families, Fighting Colors will serve as a source of reflection and inspiration for years to come.

Aircraft Nose Art

Aircraft Nose Art
Author: J. P. Wood
Publisher: Smithmark Pub
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1996
Genre: Airplanes, Military
ISBN: 9780765197382

Flying Aces

Flying Aces
Author: James H. Kitchens
Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Air pilots, Military
ISBN: 9781567998153

Some of greatest dramas of World War II occurred in the skies, where courageous and the tenacious fighter pilots battled in dogfights so fierce that the pilots -- and their planes -- became legends in their own time. Their stories continue to capture the imaginations of World War II buffs and history fans today, as well as countless talented artists who painstakingly recreate their most famous battles in vivid detail, and with staggering accuracy. This fantastic volume presents more than one hundred such works, with detailed historical descriptions of each scene.-- With more than 100 full-color reproductions of works by today's most renowned historical artists-- Archival photographs of legendary Aces and historical descriptions of their planes and their greatest battles enhance each scene presented-- Includes the greatest Aces of both the Allied and Axis forces

More Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art

More Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
Author: Roy Cross
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1847978215

The Airfix company was formed in 1939 and, since it produced its first plastic kit in 1949, grew to be the United Kingdom's leading model kit manufacturer. Several generations of young and young-at-heart modellers have made Airfix kits and, despite turbulent times in the 1970s and 1980s when the company changed ownership several times, in the twenty-first century it goes from strength to strength under the wing of Hornby Hobbies. The 1960s and early 1970s might be called the vintage years of Airfix, when some of their best and most popular kits were produced. For ten years up to 1974, renowned artist Roy Cross produced some of the stunning paintings that appear on the boxes of Airfix kits of the era. Roy set the standard for such artwork, to the extent that many are still used today, four decades later. Roy Cross's earlier book, The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art, contained a host of the paintings he prepared for Airfix, but the unearthing of many more images in old Airfix files has enabled this entirely fresh look at Roy's work to be presented, coinciding with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first Airfix kit. Thus the remainder of Roy's ten years' work for Airfix is reproduced here. This new compilation features many rare illustrations as well as studies and sketches that were not accepted at the time, and is beautifully illustrated with 180 colour artworks.

Airline Nostalgia

Airline Nostalgia
Author: Adrian M. Balch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1999
Genre: Transport planes
ISBN: 9781853109515

Rigt illustreret beskrivelse af tidens passagerfly herunder bemalingen, der markerer tilhørsforholdet til pågældende luftfartsselskab.