+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

"The reason this movie plays on television all over the world is because of the great star Johnny is and what a great actor he is. I'm very thankful that we got to work together--late in my career and early in his. It seemed like the right thing to do at the right time." Director John Waters

-------------------------

Most people know film director John Waters from his most popular movie, Hairspray, which went on to great success on Broadway and spawned a popular remake in 2008. Because of Hairspray's success, every studio wanted to make his next movie, Cry-Baby. "There was a bidding war!" he said. "It's never happened before or since."

A teen musical that spoofs Elvis Presley movies and the 1950s stance on juvenile delinquency, Cry-Baby follows the lives of teenagers from Baltimore society's two social groups--the Squares (the law-abiding goody two-shoes type) and the Drapes (the greaser, delinquent type). In the film, Drape gang leader Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp) falls for Square princess Allison (Amy Locane), and they struggle to cross cultural lines and bring their two worlds together.

Throughout his career, John Waters has earned the nicknames "The Pope of Trash" and "The Prince of Puke." His movies are an acquired taste, often shocking, and sometimes hard to take. But you've got to admire a guy who is so outside of the box, casts actors from all walks of life, and never quits in getting his movies made or bringing his views to light. "I was a big admirer of John's films," Johnny said. "He was so outside the system and such a great radical of a filmmaker."

His movies were out there! After we saw Hairspray, my sister and I sought out some of John Waters's earlier films. I don't remember their plots so much as I do their strangeness. In these movies, things were unpolished and unHollywood. I saw people I didn't know existed--people from the outskirts of society--and I wasn't sure if I wanted to know them. I remember feeling simultaneously unsettled and intrigued.

Many fans consider Cry-Baby pretty tame compared to the director's earlier works, but I always felt Cry-Baby was an unmistakable John Waters movie. Where else are you going meet a family in which the grandmother and uncle are in a steamy, committed relationship bringing up a gang of juvenile delinquents with hearts of gold? And, don't forget the detailed lessons on French kissing this movie offers!

What I find most interesting about Cry-Baby is how much is based on real life. Growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, John Waters knew Drapes and Squares and filmed in locations that accurately portrayed 1950s Baltimore. The story was inspired by a newspaper article from that time about the murder of a 14-year-old girl. He overheard people dismiss the sensational story: "This is what happens when you're a Drapette." John Waters says he was not a Drape would have loved to be one.

A Fresh Start

For Johnny, this film was the beginning of a new life. Having escaped the constraints and unwanted attention of 21 Jump Street, Cry-Baby gave him a chance to wipe the slate clean: "It was a chance to really make fun of the image that had been shoved down America's throats by the company that I worked for," he said. "Cry-Baby for me was the first time out of the gate where I was able to say, 'All right, this is what I want to do. This is the direction I want to go in.' It was the first one."

John Waters found and chose Johnny as his leading man from the racks of teen magazines that Johnny so hated. (Ironic, no?) He said that of all the stars he's worked with in his career, Johnny was the one who fit into his group the fastest and easiest--from Day 1. Johnny confirmed this notion, "For the first time in quite a while, I felt free when I went there to Baltimore. I really felt like I had been accepted into that family."

To me, Cry-Baby reflects that joy and spirit. Sure, it's extreme and over-the-top, but at its heart is a simple, universal love story. And--above all--it's fun and funny!

Stranded in Ohio

I didn't get to see Cry-Baby in the theaters when it was first released. I don't think my parents yet realized that my unwavering devotion to that guy from 21 Jump Street was not going away. (Or, maybe they were just hoping it would.) There was no convincing them to drive me 45 miles to the only little theater in the area showing his movie. Instead, I sighed at the Cry-Baby TV commercials and waited for its video release. (Don't worry--I did finally get to see this movie on the big screen a few years ago.)

Now, I have and highly recommend the director's cut DVD. For some reason, there are several versions of this movie out there, including the one from the theaters and one that was edited for TV. Don't watch the latter; John Waters hates it. Instead, watch the director's cut, which includes a fantastic dance scene missing from the theatrical release. Uncle Belvedere (Iggy Pop) has some serious moves!

Watching Cry-Baby for Johnny Kitties, I was surprised by how many scenes I loved that didn't include Johnny! The family atmosphere on the set he described is probably what made the cast work so well. Everyone is pretty perfect in their roles. Aside from Johnny and the eclectic cast, my favorite ingredient in Cry-Baby is its '50s rockabilly soundtrack. John Waters has good taste in that area. Several songs from the this movie are on my ipod. "Cry-Baby is my favorite musical," John Waters said at book signing event in 2010. "With Johnny Depp in his prime! You can't get better than that!"

The Kitties are with the Drapes

This illustration depicts a mixture of two scenes, includes many of the memorable cast members, and--I hope--captures spirit of the film. I never thought I'd do a kitty drawing featuring a confederate flag, but John Waters--who felt the same way about including one in his movie--defends its use because it was historically accurate. "That was Baltimore in the '50s," he said. "It was the South."

For the Drapes, The Jukebox Jamboree is an annual musical celebration. If you watch the movie, you'll find all these dancers in the crowd. I loved that while they all danced in different styles, their bodies were glued together--as only Drapes would know how. Slow dancing here to the great song "I'm So Young" by the Students, the Mother Kitty is featured as grandmother Ramona Rickets (Susan Tyrell) dancing with B.J.'s Uncle Belvedere (Iggy Pop). The other kitties were happy to play extras on the dance floor. You'll find Comet paired with Ashes, Norman swaying with his girl, Simon with a twin partner, and Mini as Cry-Baby's little niece dancing with her brother.

Meanwhile, Cry-Baby--having rescued Allison (played by Lily) from the Squares' own annual talent show--arrives and introduces her to his world. The Cry-Baby girls come to greet her. They include Wade's pregnant sister Pepper (Ricki Lake), Hatchetface (Kim McGuire), and Wanda (Traci Lords). "Dig it, Babes," Wanda greets Allison. "You need a new look!" They offer to give Allison a Bad Girl Beauty Makeover. Here, she goes for it and Cry-Baby is all about it. Ah, young, true love. It'll be smooth sailing from here, right? See the movie and find out!

Next month, see Johnny in one of his favorite roles as Edward Scissorhands. It marks the start of a beautiful friendship....

Visit Melissa's Kitties' blog for photos from Cry-Baby and more Johnny Kitties drawings: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The Czech Air Force (České Letectvo), officially the Army of the Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky), is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. The Czech Air Force succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force together with the Slovak Air Force in 1993.

The leasing agreement was initially settled for 10 years, running until 2013, but the high service standard and rather timid use of the machines (~130 flying hours p.a.) resulted in a prolongation of the contract until at least 2023 - also made possible through the participation of the Czech machines in constant modernization programs of the German Luftwaffe which keeps it remaining Tornado force (85 machines are still active in 2016) up to date and probably in service until 2035.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)

Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)

Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)

Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 ft2)

Empty weight: 13,890 kg (30,620 lb)

Loaded weight: 20,240 kg (44,620 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)

Powerplant:

2 × Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans

with 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) dry thrust each and 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) with afterburner

Performance:

Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,400 km/h, 1,490 mph) at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) altitude;

800 knots, 1,482 km/h, 921 mph indicated airspeed near sea level

Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) for typical combat mission

Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks

Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)

Thrust/weight: 0.77

Armament:

2× 27 mm (1.06 in) Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon, 180 RPG

4× light duty + 3× heavy duty hardpoints under-fuselage and 4× swiveling under-wing

pylon stations with a capacity of 9,000 kg (19,800 lb) of payload;

the two inner wing pylons have shoulder launch rails for 2× Short-Range AAM (SRAAM)

The kit and its assembly:

This whif is actually a CG tribute, the build of a profile posted at whatifmodelers.com by fellow Czech member Wenzel a.k.a. PantherG in May 2015: a Czech Air Force Tornado. I found the idea and the look of the different paint scheme on the fighter-bomber interesting, and earmarked it for a build. But it took a year to dig out a surplus Italeri Tornado kit from the pile (bought in a lot without box and definitive building plan) and turn the virtual idea into model kit hardware.

The respective profile shows an RAF Tornado GR.1 in CzAF colors, but I considered a former Luftwaffe aircraft to be more appropriate. Historically, this slightly different story fits well, since the Czech Air Force phased out its Su-22 fighter bombers until 2002 and the German Luftwaffe also reduced its Tornado fleet considerably at that time (e. g. all of the Marineflieger Tornados were retired or re-distributed to Luftwaffe units until 2005, squadrons disbanded or unified, and the total German Tornado fleet declined from more than 300 to only 85 aircraft).

As already mentioned, the kit is the Italeri offering, a mediocre rendition of the Tornado IDS. I have built several of these in the past and was wary about the kit's flaws - including the poor fit of the fuselage halves, lack of exhaust or air intake interior and the funny construction of the swiveling pylons.

I basically built the kit OOB but made detail changes/improvements, like deeper air intakes with simulated ducts, some added ramps inside of the intakes. The jet nozzles and the fuselage end were drilled open, so that these would gain some more depth. Some styrene blade antennae and thin wire pitots were added all around the hull.

Personal additions are the pylon-mounted laser receiver (inspired by the Pave Penny pod on A-10s) and the eyeball (inspired by the A-6E TRAM) under the front fuselage, both scratched. Other details that set this Tornado apart are the KKR-1 and SPS-141 pods, both from a Mastercraft Su-22. The OOB AIM-9E Sidewinders were replaced by more modern AIM-9M from the scrap box, which the contemporary Czech Saab Gripen carry, too.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

A kind of tribute build, and it’s exciting to see someone else’ virtual design taking literal shape as a three-dimensional model kit. And the idea of a Czech Tornado is IMHO not as fantastic as it might sound in the first place – the diversified paint scheme looks interesting on the Cold War warrior that swapped sides after the Iron Curtain went down.

A cheeky set of drawings I did of people in Berlin a while back featuring some classy photographs (taken by yours truly) and some groovy moves.

Drawings feature: Heather Cox and the beautiful Richard Waterton, Connie Adams and Kate Bullen in the best bar in Berlin (cLuB bAsSy)

One of artist Mike Speiser many drawings featured at the Children's Book Week Celebration.

This is funny - two scribble pixel drawings, featuring the exact same "random" points. I don't know why, but I'd assumed the arduino's random number functions were a bit less deterministic - I wonder what it uses as a seed?

my car drawing featured in Gabriel Campanario's "The Art of Urban Sketching" (www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592537251/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d...)

blue and black bic biro ballpoint on card, about 50 x 60cm.

Latest biro drawing featuring Kate Moss. Along with JRM design & patterns.

sold....

limited edition of 7 giclee prints available (2 left!).

(art portfolio: www.jamesmylne.co.uk).

Another great example, this time a rusticated framing, which reminds me some of Sebastiano Serlio's drawings featured in his treatise: 'Seven Books of Architecture', that became a model for the italian renaissance style and that quickly spread to the rest of Europe. This particular door belongs to Ovando-Mogollón house which was built in the XVI century over the foundantions of a previous palace.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

one of my drawings featured in a postal mailing newsletter

my Stuttgart drawings featured in Gabriel Campanario's "The Art of Urban Sketching" (www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592537251/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d...)

Sandra Dieckmann featured on apeonthemoon.com including an original drawing featuring MoonApe!

via Instagram ift.tt/1ONzCUq

From London in 1945 the proms for 15th Sept featuring Kathleen Ferrier.

The note in my records at the time was a woefully aspirational one: "Arty shot!" I proclaimed. In fact all I had done was to point my camera into direct sunlight toward the bus through the bus shelter glass.

I discovered the slide again while doing some scanning and, to the eyes of an older and I'd like to think wiser individual, I had to admit that it wasn't right good.

So, almost for devilment, I proceeded to corrupt the already dubious image still further by playing around with it in Photoshop, making use of the line drawing feature and some various filters and effects and the like, to give you this truly "out there" pencil-sketch-style offering.

It's Mayne number 4 (GND 505N) in there somewhere. Honest.

Manchester, Piccadilly, 10/08/1992.

some of my older drawings featured in Ulf Jonak's 2007 released schoolbook "Grundlagen der Gestaltung" (www.amazon.de/Grundlagen-Gestaltung-Ulf-Jonak/dp/31701886...)

George Du Maurier (1834-1896), illustrator and novelist, and grandfather of novelist Daphne Du Maurier, was born George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier in Paris. He was was brought up with the notion that his aristocratic grandparents had fled France during the Revolution, leaving vast estates behind to live in England as émigrés. The truth, however, is that George's grandfather, Robert Mathurin, a glass-blower by trade and a speculator by inclination, left France in 1789 to avoid fraud charges. To bolster his aristocratic image he added "Du Maurier" to his name. Initially, he worked for the Whitefriar's Glass Company in London, but his confidence schemes soon landed him in prison. By 1802, he had six children, but returned to France to escape his domestic responsibilities, and worked until his death in 1811 as a schoolmaster. His fourth son and Du Maurier's father, Louis, born in 1797, grew up in London, but when he was eighteen his mother moved the family back to Paris so Louis could study opera. Taking up inventing instead, in 1831 Louis married Ellen, daughter of a notorious regency courtesan, Mary-Anne Clarke.

George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier, born in Paris on the 6th of March, 1834, was raised on the myth that his family's lineage could be traced back to the 12th century. The grandchild of a Frenchman who had fled to England and the son of an Englishwoman exiled by society to France, George learned English and French simultaneously--it is no accident, then, that his novels embody the motif of split-personality. Soon after George's birth, his family moved to Brussels, where Louis became scientific advisor to the Portuguese embassy. To enable Louis to continue his scientific studies (which never amounted to much in terms of financial success), the Du Mauriers returned to Paris, living in various houses and apartments in the tranquil suburb of Passy between 1842 and 1846. From his schoolroom window at the Pension Froussard, George must have watched in awe as street fighting ushered in the 1848 revolution that deposed the "Citizen-Monarch," Louis Philippe. In 1851, having failed his Latin paper, George Du Maurier did not graduate, but his father quickly arranged for his son to complete his education by studying chemistry at the Berbeck Chemical Laboratory, University College, London. At the age of seventeen, George Du Maurier, accompanied by his entire family, settled into a Pentonville apartment.

Quickly giving up on chemistry, George temporarily aspired to be an opera-singer, just as his father had, but his voiced proved inadequate. Depressed, he lost himself in the National Gallery, Covent Garden, and the British Museum. In 1853 his sister Isabella introduced him to the beautiful heiress Emma Wightwick, who was to become his wife a decade later. In 1856, shortly after his father's funeral, George was off again, this time to study art in Paris; again, the entire family accompanied him. While attending the atelier of painter Charles Gleyre, he became friends with such talented young artists as the American painter James Whistler, Thomas Armstrong (later, Director of Art at the South Kensington Museum), and Edward Poynter (later, President of the Royal Academy). He continued his artistic studies in Antwerp, Malines, and Düsseldorf, returning to London in 1860 to seek employment as a magazine illustrator. In the fall, Once A Week agreed to publish his illustrations for the story "Faristan and Fatima," and then Mark Lemon agreed to publish his first cartoon for Punch.

In 1861, beginning to make a name for himself as a cartoonist and receiving constant commissions from Once A Week, George Du Maurier proposed to Emma Wightwick, and, despite his mother's objections, married Emma on the 3rd of January, 1863. Within two years, he was appointed to the staff of Punch, and remained a cartoonist and illustrator there until his death.

In 1866, he submitted his first major work for the magazine, a series entitled "A Legend of Camelot" that satirized the aesthetic movement's leading figures (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Pater in particular) and their "Cult of Beauty." Up until 1885, he continued this satiric assault by creating such memorable figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant), Grigsby (an ordinary chap trying to emulate the aesthetic movement's fashions), and those exquisite parodies of the nouveaux riches and patrons of the arts, Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns and Sir Gorgius Midas.

In 1869, Du Maurier and his wife moved the Bohemian community on London's Hampstead Heath. Neighbours at Frognall included noted fairy and child artist Kate Greenaway (a link between Du Maurier and Ruskin) and Sir Walter Besant, the novelist, a friend since their days together at Cambridge (1855). The Du Mauriers' annual summer vacations at such French seaside resorts as Dieppe, Le Havre, and Étretat, as well as the social and artistic life of their little village, are often reflected in Du Maurier's Punch cartoons -- a special favourite of readers was the lovable family pet Chang, a St. Bernard; like Du Maurier himself, the readership was stricken when the great dog died in 1883. In 1874, now aged forty, Du Maurier moved his family into New Grove House, Hampstead, which would be their home for the next twenty years. Although the artist friends of his youth no longer called, he often exchanged visits with Pre-Raphaelite artist John Millais, the best-selling novelist George Eliot, and her partner, G. Henry Lewes, editor of the prestigious Westminster Review. During the early 1870s, Du Maurier began to suffer eye problems, for which his doctor recommended working on a larger scale. As a result, Du Maurier's work declined in quality.

Walter Besant persuaded Du Maurier to join the celebrated Rabelais Club, founded in 1879, which held literary dinners once every two months. Other high-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and artists Lawrence Alma Tadema and John Millais. Between 1881 and the club's demise in 1889, three volumes of the club's literary proceedings appeared. Among the members' contributions to Recreations of the Rabelais Club were Du Maurier's "Aux poètes de la France," a poem in French inspired by an argument with Henry James over the relative merits of English and French verse (volume two), and a doggerel poem in English (volume three).

When Du Maurier illustrated Thomas Hardy's serialised The Hand of Ethelberta (plates) for the Cornhill magazine (July, 1875, through May, 1876) he and not the novelist was the more significant figure in the eyes of the reading public, in large measure because of his "English Society at Home" sketches in Punch, to which he had already contributed for fifteen years (ten of those as a staff artist). He was known, too, through his illustrations for W. M. Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1869), Foxe's Book of Martyrs and eight works by Elizabeth Gaskell: Sylvia's Lovers(1863); Cranford (1864); Lizzie Leigh, The Grey Woman, and Cousin Phillis (one volume, 1865); Wives and Daughters (1866); North and South (1867); and A Dark Night's Work(1867). His eleven Ethelberta drawings feature little of Thomas Hardy's Wessex countryside, being largely elegant visions of British high society as seen from the perspective of the servants' hall.

These contain a notable preponderance of female figures, and the heroine herself appears in ten of the eleven full-page illustrations. We see Ethelberta in the drawing-room, in the country, on the seashore, Ethelberta in a carriage, on donkey-back, being kissed -- the variety of situations being accompanied by a diversity of costumes, with an effect not unlike a series of fashion-plates" [p. 462]

So impressed was Thomas Hardy by this pictorial programme of eleven drawings and eleven vignette initials that he specifically requested the publisher to contract Du Maurier to illustrate A Laodicean for Harper's New Monthly Magazine (December 1880-December, 1881; Discussion of plates). The volume of correspondence indicates that there was close collaboration between the pair, and that the artist felt constrained by the novelist's highly detailed instructions regarding a countryside with which Du Maurier was quite unfamiliar. Hardy even sent him two photographs to serve as models for the chief characters, and a photograph of the tumuli that are a peculiarity of the Wessex landscape. Du Maurier was the only artist to illustrate more than one of Hardy's novels; unluckily for Du Maurier, these are two of Hardy's slightest productions.

Other notable works that Du Maurier illustrated include M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1866: one picture for the "yellow back" edition's cover), Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch, The Moonstone, The New Magdalen, and The Frozen Deep (1875: one plate each), and his own novels Peter Ibbetson (1892: 86 illustrations), Trilby (1894: 120 illustrations; selected plates), and The Martian (1898: 48 illustrations).

"Most of these illustrations are competent and pleasant supplements to the texts but some of them, such as in [Douglas Jerrold's] The Story of a Feather [1867] and [Richard Barham's] The Ingoldsby Legends [1866] are superior works of art in themselves." (Kelly 15)

During the 1880s Du Maurier suffered a series of disappointments, most notably being passed over for the editorial post at Punch when ill-health occasioned Taylor's resignation in 1880. "Henry Harper, who, with Thomas Hardy, went to lunch at New Grove House [Du Maurier's Hampstead residence] on the day of the election, 21 July, to discuss the illustrations of Hardy's A Laodicean in Harper's Monthly Magazine" (Ormond 361) broached the possibility that Frank Burnand would be appointed by the owners. Du Maurier appeared nervous, probably thinking himself in the running and Burnand, a Catholic, out of it since Punch was known to have an anti-Papist bias. However, Burnand was chosen. On December 10, 1880, Harper's London agent, R. R. Bowker, visited New Grove House to discuss the Laodiceanplates, which both he and Hardy were finding disappointing. Du Maurier and Harper's consequently parted company for a time, until Bowker was succeeded by James Ripley Osgood, who persuaded Du Maurier to contribute cartoons in 1886, and eventually the novel Peter Ibbetsonin 1891. When Henry Harper accepted Peter Ibbeston for serialisation in Harper's it seemed logical to him that Du Maurier be commissioned to illustrate his own novel. Even Henry James, a critic generally severe about illustrated fiction, was lavish in his praise of the forty-eight plates in his 1897 review of the book.

Most of Du Maurier's illustrations appeared in the Cornhillfrom 1863 through 1886, including plates for R. E. Francillon's Zelda's Fortune (sample plate), William Black's Three Feathers, and Margaret Oliphant's Carità. He illustrated only two first-rate novels, George Meredith's The Adventures of Harry Richmond, which ran in the Cornhill from September, 1870, though November, 1871, and Henry James's Washington Square(1880). He contributed the frontispiece to the C. S. Reinhart-illustrated volume edition of The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins, which had run serially in Temple Bar from October 1872, through July 1873. Despite his allegiance to the Cornhill and Punch, his illustrations appeared in a number of other London literary magazines from 1860 until his death: The Illustrated London News in 1860, Once a Week (1860-1867), Good Words (1861 and 1872), the Illustrated Times in 1862, London Society(1862-1868), the Sunday Magazine(1864), The Leisure Hour (1864-1865), Harper's Magazine(1880-1897), and the English Illustrated Magazine (1884 and 1887).

In the 1880s Du Maurier turned his hand to water-colours, but his emphasis on line and his inadequate sense of coloration rendered them little more than tinted drawings. In his novel-writing Du Maurier was more successful, producing three novels: Peter Ibbetson (1889), the best-seller Trilby (1894), and The Martian (1897). The popularity of Trilby owes much to Du Maurier's handling of the theme of the fallen woman with a good heart, the romantic setting of Paris's Latin Quarter, and the Bohemian characters, the classic Victorian heroine, the Hungarian musician and mesmerist Svengali (under whose sinister influence the young singer falls), Little Billee (modeled on the illustrator and genre painter Frederick Walker, 1840-1875), and Mimi la Salope.

The critics and the public alike adored Trilby, the story of a vivacious French girl and a satanic hypnotist. Across England and America, it became the number one best-seller in 1894; indeed, by the end of that year it had sold 300,000 copies. Du Maurier's chief source (other than his own youthful Continental experiences) was Henri Murger's Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (1845)-- coincidentally, the basis for the Puccini opera La Bohème. However, Du Maurier's treatment of his materials differs so greatly from Puccini's because his English, domestic, and middle-class sensibilities make the morally prudish Little Billee the true protagonist.

Du Maurier focuses most of the sexuality in this novel upon two things: Trilby's famous foot, which, in paintings, sculptures, and in the flesh is adored by Little Billee and her other admirers; and upon the relationship between Svengali and Trilby. (Kelly 89)

This relationship is clearly drawn from the Sensation novels and stories that Du Maurier illustrated in the 1860s and 1870s, notably "The Notting Hill Mystery," published in Once A Week in 1861, and "The Poisoned Mind," published in that same periodical in 1862, although one may certainly detect the influence of Dickens's John Jasper and Rosa Bud from The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) on the relationship between Svengali and Trilby.

By corrupting Trilby and using her like an exotic musical instrument, thereby reducing her to this morbid condition . . . , Svengali also destroys the only person who can restore to Little Billee his own lost romantic vision of a world built upon love, fellowship, and freedom. (Kelly 104)

Svengali's intense hatred of his rivals for Trilby's affections –her old friends, the artists Little Billee, the Laird, and Taffy–precipitates a heart-attack, whereupon the singer awakes as if from a dream, unaware of her celebrated singing career and, indeed, unable to sing at all. Exhausted from years as Svengali's puppet, she dies shortly after her master, and Little Billee, broken-hearted, dies shortly after her.

Almost immediately after Du Maurier's death in 1897, the mania that had swept England and America regarding Trilby began to subside after having raged two years. At its height, Trilby boots, shoes, silver scarf pins, parodies, and even sausages flooded the market. Hollywood's first film based on the novel, Svengali, appeared in 1922, re-made as a talkie by the same director, Walton Tully, in 1931, with John Barrymore in the lead. Noel Langley, director of the incomparable black-and-white adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1951) with Alastair Sim as Scrooge, directed a British film adaptation of Trilby in 1954. The most recent version, made for television, starred Jodie Foster as a rock-star Trilby. Undoubtedly, so durable a creation is the villain Svengali, that we have not seen the last of him on stage and screen.

Late in 1894, Du Maurier began work on his third and final novel, The Martian, a romantic fantasy in which an earthling becomes possessed by the spirit of a female extraterrestrial. The first instalment ran in Harper's Monthly for the very month in which Du Maurier died, October, 1897. He passed away not in his beloved Hampstead, but in Oxford Square, near Hyde Park, where he and his wife had inexplicably moved in 1895. He was only sixty-two, his death the result (like Svengali's) of heart failure. Everyone of importance to him in life who still survived turned out for his funeral in Hampstead Parish Church, including many distinguished writers and artists, the Punch staff, and his old friends Armstrong, Lamont, Poynter, and Henry James. On his memorial panel in the Hampstead cemetery are inscribed the last two lines of Trilby, his own translation of a couplet from Léon Monté-Naken's "Peu de Chose": "A Little trust that when we die / We reap our sowing. And so — good bye!"

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

is an original Production Drawing featuring Jeremy the Crow from the 1982 Don Bluth animated feature, The Secret of Nimh. The untrimmed sheet measures 10.5" x 12.5" and you are seeing the entire sheet in the image. The sheet is in excellent condition with 3 peg holes along the bottom edge of the sheet

Funny drawing featuring Wolverine and Deadpool.

On November 2011, the Istana Negara was relocated to a new palace in Jalan Duta and has started full operation under the 13th Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah.

While the ceremony to raise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s private flag was held on November 15, 2011 as a symbol that the Istana Negara, Jalan Duta has officially become the National Palace of this sovereign country.

With an area of 97.65 hectares, all halls and rooms in the Istana Negara Jalan Duta was build with unique characteristics based on traditional Malay concept and splendour Islamic art works by several famous local sculptor from Terengganu and Kelantan.

Estimation of construction cost is valued at RM800 million, the new Istana Negara has 22 domes where the two main large domes with betel leaves overlapping motives when at night, light effects from decorative lighting shines the domes it will create a very beautiful view.

Guests of the Istana Negara will certainly be amazed to be under the main domes where it is decorated with a large local made chandelier and surrounded by large pillars shaped circle and eight artistic drawings featuring the country’s history since the Malacca’s Malay Sultanate until current.

The whole construction of the Istana Negara Jalan Duta building was build on only 65 hectare while the remaining 32.65 hectare remains as soil buffering zone and gardens beautified with calming landscape features.

According to the Istana Negara official website, www.istananegara.gov.my, the overall palace building has three main components namely Formal Component, Royal Component and Administration Component.

The Formal Component which is frequently used for official matters such as the installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Prime Ministers, Cabinet Government and as such places the Balairong Seri, an audience room, a waiting room before the receiving ceremony and Banquet Hall for dining ceremony.

Besides that, the component also places the Small Throne Room and Conference of Rulers Room where Rulers discuss and waiting room for The Sultans, TYT Yang Dipertua Negeri and Prime Minister, Menteri Besar and Chief Minister.

The Royal Component was specially designed for the usage of DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong and DYMM Raja Permaisuri Agong and family members which covers the bedrooms, bathrooms, Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Office, Dining room, Living room and Royal guest rooms.

While the Administration Component places the Datuk Pengelola Bijaya Diraja’s Office, Datuk Paduka Maharaja Lela’s Office, Royal Affair Department, Ceremony Department, Administration Department, Religious Department and Escort Department which becomes the administration and management pulse of Istana Negara Jalan Duta.

Besides that, a surau was also built in this component which can accommodate 1000 congregation for the convenience of Istana Negara’s guests and employees.

Other facilities that were build includes support building, safety office, tiered access road from Jalan Duta, visitors square and underground parking bay.

Among the facilities and infrastructure that completes Istana Negara are multipurpose hall, elevators, treatment room, helicopter landing pad, canon fire place, horse stables, court for sports and swimming pool.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

The Netherlands brought forth a lot of great artists and M.C. Escher is certainly one of them. His mathematically inspired drawings feature impossible constructions and often embrace the concept of infinity. So with this weeks theme "Infinity" his work was the first thing that came to mind.

Strobist info

SB600 @1/4 (24mm) in reflective umbrella, camera right

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

Painting and markings:

I tried to stay as close as possible to the original profile drawing, but added some personal twists and made corrections I felt suitable, e. g. an additional field of dark green in front of the cockpit nose or different colors for the tactical code.

The colors refer to the profile and I used the respective tones from Humbrol's and Modelmaster's enamel range for basic painting (upper sides: FS 34079 = H 116, FS 30018 = MM 1702, FS 36152 = H 27 and FS 34227 = H 120, with FS 35526 undersides, but I used a deeper blue on the undersides, RLM 80 from Modelmaster, instead of an RLM 65 equivalent).

After a black ink wash, panels and details were shaded and lightened because the original colors are pretty murky in real life and with little contrast.

With its five-color scheme, the CzAF Tornado already looked different and flashy - but I added even some more variation through various color details. Since the fictional ex Luftwaffe machines would bring typical equipment with them, I painted several 'optional parts' in different schemes: The swiveling pylons kept a light grey basis (RAL 7035) with a leading edge in Basaltgrau (RAL 7012). The BOZ-101 dispenser carries its former Luftwaffe livery in all-over RAL 6003 (Olivgrün). The drop tanks were painted in late Luftwaffe blue-grey (RAL 7001). This appears odd, but you frequently see Luftwaffe Tornados carrying external ordnance in very different, even vintage styles, which were simply not updated to newer camouflage schemes.

Furthermore, the SPS-141 carries light brown upper (Humbrol 62) and a light blue (Humbrol 65) lower surface (with bright green dielectric covers, of course, seen on a late CzAF Su-22), while the large KKR-1 pod became all-blue, even though in a slightly different shade from the Tornado. Overall, it's an intentional wild mix of styles and colors.

This went further with the hi-viz national roundels and yellow tactical codes. The original profile drawing featured black digits with white outlines, but this style was AFAIK dropped when the Czechoslovak Air Force became the Czech Air Force in 1993, and the codes on the Su-22 fighter-bombers became yellow. Later, additional NATO codes were added on the fin for war game identification. Therefore I incorporated this more recent style into my build.

Other markings and stencils come from various sources, including the OOB sheets or leftover material from 1:72 Su-22s made by Bilek and Mastercraft.

(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937) Original Fred Moore preliminary model sheet drawing featuring Doc, show him in three different defiant poses.

Accomplished in graphite on untrimmed 12 x 10 animation paper.

In fine condition.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

On December 11, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the next series of its popular vintage poster collection and it included a poster of the San Juan Islands National Monument (SJINM)!

The official unveiling of the three posters at the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office and was attended by the BLM’s entire State Leadership Team. State Director Jerry Perez and Associate State Director Theresa Hanley unveiled the new posters with Spokane District Manager, Daniel Picard.

The SJINM encompasses about 1,000 acres of land spread across rocks and islands managed by BLM. The vintage-style drawing featured on the poster is of Patos Island and its lighthouse, which is a dominant feature of the area.

Other similarly styled posters feature the Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico.

To learn more about the National Landscape Conservation System’s vintage poster series head on over to: tmblr.co/Z9wNeu1XfIBxE

Photo: Michael Campbell, BLM.

zHANNA BARBERA PRODUCTIONS

BILL Hanna and JOE Barbera

Item Type: 2 (two) Original 1960s Production Layout Drawings; featuring the two Studio Founders

Size: 12.5 x 20.5 (12 Field)

Hanna–Barbera Productions, Inc. (pronounced /ˌhænə bɑrˈbɛrə/) (also known as Hanna–Barbera Cartoons, Hanna–Barbera Enterprises or Hanna–Barbera Studios) is an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century. The company was originally formed in 1957 by former Metro Goldwyn Mayer animation directors, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney, in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division, as H–B Enterprises.[1] Established after MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H–B Enterprises was re-named Hanna–Barbera Productions in 1959. Over the next three decades, the studio produced many successful cartoon shows, including The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Jetsons, The Yogi Bear Show, Jonny Quest, The Huckleberry Hound Show, Top Cat, The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Space Ghost, Wacky Races, The Smurfs and The Magilla Gorilla Show. In the mid-1980s, the company's fortunes declined somewhat after the profitability of Saturday morning cartoons was eclipsed by weekday afternoon syndication. In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting System.

Both Hanna and Barbera went into semi-retirement, yet continued to serve as ceremonial figureheads for the studio, as well as remaining active as producers and sporadically as writers and directors. During the late 1990s, Turner turned Hanna–Barbera towards primarily producing new material for Cartoon Network, the programming for which was originally significantly made up of reruns from the Hanna–Barbera library. During this period, Hanna–Barbera was responsible for most of the successful Cartoon Cartoons shows, including Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls and I Am Weasel. In 1994, the company was renamed Hanna–Barbera Cartoons. In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner. With Bill Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna–Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Joe Barbera remained with Warner Bros. Animation until his death in 2006. The Hanna–Barbera name and studio is today used only to market properties and productions associated with Hanna–Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo

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