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I regret to announce that from now on I will no longer be taking requests. I will do all of the decal requests that have been requested up to this point, but no more after this is posted. I just can't find the time anymore to make loads of decals. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,

ThePyroMaster

The Luxury of being yourself

 

We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:

wsimages.com/

 

We do wedding photography and videography:

randrphotographs.com/

 

We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:

www.wsimages.com/clearance/

 

Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:

www.wsimages.com/fineart/

 

We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.

 

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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.

 

We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.

 

“A concise poem about our work as stated elow

 

A place without being

a thought without thinking

creatively, two dimensions

suspended animation

possibly a perfect imitation

of what was then to see.

 

A frozen memory in synthetic colour

or black and white instead,

fantasy dreams in magazines

become imbedded inside my head.

 

Artistic views

surrealistic hues,

a photographer’s instinctive eye:

for he does as he pleases

up to that point he releases,

then develops a visual high.

- M R Abrahams

 

Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:

www.wsimages.com/about/

 

Some of our latest work & more!

www.wsimages.com/newaddition/

 

Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:

www.wsimages.com/fineart/

 

There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:

www.wsimages.com/blog/

 

All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.

 

All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:

www.wsimages.com/contact/

 

We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.

www.wsimages.com/news/

 

In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.

 

We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.

  

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You never know when opportunity will knock. I was returning home from a bike ride with friends when I saw her walking up the street with her straw boater hat and reflecting sunglasses. She was striking. By the time I got out of the street and parked my bicycle, she had gone into the local coffee shop. Not sure if I was trying too hard or not, I introduced myself and my project and made my photo request. She seemed a bit bemused (probably sensing my discomfort) but she said she would be glad to participate. I waited while she prepared her coffee and suggested we step outside to the driveway where we could use a painted wall for a background. Meet Carla.

 

Carla was very easy-going and willing to follow what little direction I offered (look directly into the camera, face me, body at an angle, sunglasses on, sunglasses off) and it was a very comfortable interaction. We proceeded to talk and I learned that Carla is originally from Ottawa, the nation’s capital, but came to Toronto 27 years ago to go to law school.

 

Me: “So you’re a lawyer?”

Carla: “No, I’m a florist.”

Me: “Oh. Of course you are. That sounds perfectly logical.”

We both laughed.

 

Carla explained she had practiced law for 3-4 years but was soon looking for a way out of the corporate world. She spent several years recruiting other lawyers before finally making the decision to pursue her artistic passion. When I asked what she liked most about being a florist she said “What don’t I like? The beauty of flowers vibrates me. Especially giant peonies and dahlias truly excite me.” I commented that she sounded very happy with the career change. She agreed enthusiastically.

 

Me: “What is a piece of advice you would give your younger self?”

Carla: “You won’t be doing this forever.”

Me: “What is a challenge you have faced in life?”

Carla: “Changing directions.”

Me: “What is a message you would like to share with the project?

Carla: “Do the unexpected.”

 

I told Carla that her message reminded me of a comment Bill (my previous stranger) made: "When opportunity knocks, be sure to open the door.” Carla laughed. “My version would probably be “When opportunity knocks, bolt the door and run to the bathroom.” We both laughed. I could tell it had taken courage for her to make her big career change. It’s great that once made, it turned out so well for her.

 

Carla is 51 years old (I know, I found it hard to believe too, but people rarely fib to make themselves older) and told me her ethnic background is Jamaican and French Canadian/Irish. What an interesting mix. I asked her what kind of day I had interrupted with my project request. She explained she had spent the morning waiting for someone from the gas company to arrive to diagnose a problem with her water heater and she stopped off for a coffee on her way to do some grocery shopping. When I commented on her cool hat she said she had wanted a boater hat and found this one in a neighborhood shop and is very pleased with it. “They had some authentic old-fashioned boaters but they were way out of my price range. This one is contemporary and was much less expensive.” She wears it well, don’t you think?

 

As happens so often, I ended up telling Carla how glad I was that I’d gone ahead and approached her because it had turned into a very interesting out-of-the-blue encounter. We exchanged contact information and wished each other a good Canada Day weekend.

 

This is my 738th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.

 

You can view more street portraits and stories by visiting The Human Family.

 

EOS 60D+Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM

 

* If you have requests or comments, please describe these in photo comment space.

 

The recreated Hayles Abbey Halt awaits its first passengers as 1450 passes with the 12.45 from Toddington to Winchcombe.

Met 3FM Serious Request 2015 zetten we ons dit jaar in voor kinderen en jongeren in oorlogs- en conflictgebieden: deze generatie leeft onder de meest extreme omstandigheden en heeft daardoor weinig kans op scholing en ontwikkeling. Zij zijn de stille slachtoffers van de oorlog. Voor meer info, check: www.3fm.nl/seriousrequest

Currently I am working on designs that were requested in december and early january.

 

One thing I would like to mention is that I am spending a few hours a week doing these. That means it may take a while till I get "your" request, so please be patient.

Sincere request – Do NOT post invite/graphics/photos clicked by you. Thank you.

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I guess I am realizing the actual gravity of Richard Bach’s this line with every moment that I am trying to push the limits along with my Sony H50. Every limitation that I had conceived earlier has come crashing down, the harder that I have tried.

 

Here, it’s a pretty simple (rather mundane) composition. I could harp on & on about how difficult it was for me to get all this in place. But then again, the fruits that taste the sweetest, make you toil & sweat the hardest.

 

My experiments with DoF control & sunlight continue. I would most certainly like to read from you if I can make this shot any better; only please be a little gentle. :D

 

What? White? Why not?

She liked these and wanted them processed. Rather than arguing because, you know, editing photos of beautiful women is just so arduous, ...

 

Somewhere on the Sea of Cortez off Rocky Point, Mexico.

 

Model is Jesika Lynn

 

Strobist: SB-28, hand held, 1/2 power, slightly camera left.

 

PP in Lightroom/CS3.

cambridge, mass

1971

 

harvard square

 

used in the film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", directed by Ben Stiller. Photograph by Nick DeWolf

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Linda in a local forest for a requested photoshoot.

I was requested by both I_dawg2000 and Bradley_Memphis to check out this former Kroger now turned Tractor Supply. Here you go, guys! There will be a few more pics tomorrow too.

A request was made of a resource using a request method not supported by that resource; for example, using GET on a form which requires data to be presented via POST, or using PUT on a read-only resource.

This is not my pic...it is an edit as requested in the Helping Hands group here:

www.flickr.com/groups/helping_hands_photo_editing_and_pho...

 

Original by IttyBittyJes here: www.flickr.com/photos/ittybittyjes/4605739487/

 

Both edits done in Lightroom. Here are my basic steps:

Straightened the photo making the wooden bar level, cropped slightly to bring the hat to the left edge.

Used the clone/heal tool to clean up the crumbs/spots around her mouth and the dark spot on her hat.

Applied preset Vintage Blue

Adjusted exposure to 0.51

Adjusted brightness to 43

Reduced luminance smoothing to 55 and color noise reduction to 68

Added an adjustment brush set to Iris Enhance selecting her eyes

Removed the vignette that was added in the preset and then used adjustment brush to lighten the upper left corner of the hat and darken the portion above her forehead.

Adjusted the Shadow Hue slightly to adjust the color

Added a Dodge adjustment just under her lips as it was a bit dark.

 

For the black & white, I started with the color edit and converted to b&w, adjusting the Shadow Hue and Contrast until I got tones I liked. Set the Point Curve to Strong Contrast

Adjusted contrast, fill light, and recovery until I liked the results.

 

The Luxury of being yourself

 

We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:

wsimages.com/

 

We do wedding photography and videography:

randrphotographs.com/

 

We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:

www.wsimages.com/clearance/

 

Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:

www.wsimages.com/fineart/

 

We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.

 

Follow us on Instagram!

www.wsimages.com/fineart/

 

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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.

 

We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.

 

“A concise poem about our work as stated elow

 

A place without being

a thought without thinking

creatively, two dimensions

suspended animation

possibly a perfect imitation

of what was then to see.

 

A frozen memory in synthetic colour

or black and white instead,

fantasy dreams in magazines

become imbedded inside my head.

 

Artistic views

surrealistic hues,

a photographer’s instinctive eye:

for he does as he pleases

up to that point he releases,

then develops a visual high.

- M R Abrahams

 

Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:

www.wsimages.com/about/

 

Some of our latest work & more!

www.wsimages.com/newaddition/

 

Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:

www.wsimages.com/fineart/

 

There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:

www.wsimages.com/blog/

 

All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.

 

All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:

www.wsimages.com/contact/

 

We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.

www.wsimages.com/news/

 

In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.

 

We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.

  

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That's life. The more beautiful and confident you feel, the more likely you are to get a run in your nylons.

At Agi's request. :)

Last weekend of the Teddy Bear Hospital.

 

www.ifmsa.net/public/project.php?id=49

www.dsms.net/teddybear/

www.sziget.hu/gyereksziget/

 

Hajógyári Sziget, Budapest, Hungary

I was asked to take a random shot of her.

 

Lina <3

i dunno even which game is this

- photo from the William J.B. Gwinn Transportation Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.

 

➤ Visit the Library's Wheeling History website

 

The photos on the Ohio County Public Library's Flickr site may be freely used by non-commercial entities for educational and/or research purposes as long as credit is given to the "Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling WV." These photos may not be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation without the permission of the Ohio County Public Library.

➤ Contact the Ohio County Public Library to request permission for use or publication of materials.

33201 at Eastleigh TMD on 2 steam shed sidings.

  

Just a sip now Jasmine.Free advertising for Sam Adams Boston Lager.

Requested by Tagtagano. From young justice. Give credits if use and tell me what you think. Personal use only.

By Request

 

Not so much as display as dumping ground. That clear container is where "specialty" 'figs go, like some original characters, alternate designs, or Police and EMTs. The one with the red top is where all 3rd party weaponry/tools go. All the 'figs on top of the clear case are 'figs I'm currently using for ongoing sagas. It looks messy and all, but no custom' figs are damaged from this as they're simply placed there and not being banged around and damaged like they would if they were inside the container.

Many have made repeated requests for me to model RHT stockings hope you enjoy 😉. You can chime in also

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Description:

ITEM Identifier: 87-M130, 66o.

 

Architectural drawings. Walker Gordon laboratories: 4 negative photostats, 1929; Noyes houses, Holderness New Hampshire: negative and positive photostats, 1929; Mary Huntington Pew, Rockport,: pencil and blueprints, 1933; Conklin house: photostats, 1941; 305 Broadway, n.d.

 

Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

 

Collection: Elisabeth Coit Papers

 

Call Number: 87-M130

 

Catalog Record: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/7565

 

Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian

This was requested by my friend Brian - he remembers it from his schooldays with particular pleasure.

By request, more eighties era Chrysler products. Most of these brochures are too big for my scanner, so parts are cut off. You really want to see the pictures, though.

boston, 1971

 

columbus day parade

alexander and everett carlson (far left) in crowd

 

"derosa meat market"

"hicks for mayor"

"tow zone"

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

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

  

Some background:

The 80th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) was constituted on 13 January 1942 and activated on February 1942. It was redesignated as the 80th Fighter Group in May 1942. During World War II, the group was the first USAAF unit to be stationed in Burma after the Allied retreat in 1942. During its two years in combat, this group, which called itself the Burma Banshees, kept the supply lines open to China while clearing the way for Allied forces and US Army units such as Merrill's Marauders to sweep Japanese forces from northern Burma.

 

The 80th trained for combat and served as part of the defense force for the northeastern United States from, 1942–1943. Its flying squadrons were the 88th, 89th, and 90th Pursuit (later Fighter) Squadrons, later augmented by the 459th Fighter Squadron.

The 80th sailed for India, via Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon, in May 1943, commencing combat operations in the China-Burma-India theater in September 1943. The group supported Allied ground forces during the battle for northern Burma and the push southward to Rangoon, bombing and strafing troop concentrations, supply dumps, lines of communication, artillery positions, and other objectives.

 

Initial flying material consisted mainly of the P-40 and a few P-38 fighters. Using modified, so-called “B-40 fighter” bombers (P-40s fitted with a single 1,000-pound bomb), the 80th FG attacked Japanese-held bridges, sometimes demolishing their target with a single bomb. The 80th was assigned the defense of the Indian terminus of the Hump route, which it carried out by striking Japanese airfields and patrolling Allied air bases to safeguard them from attack. The 80th received a Distinguished Unit Citation for intercepting a formation of Japanese aircraft, preventing the destruction of a large oil refinery in Assam, India, on 27 March 1944. During this engagement, they shot down 18 enemy machines without losing any of their own.

 

After the capture of Myitkyina and the nearby airfield on May 17, 1944, parts of the 80th Fighter Group relocated to this location. During the heavy fighting around Kohima and Imphal, the British troops deployed there requested air support and the 80th Fighter Group was able to successfully thwart the Japanese advance. In the further course of the operations in Burma, the pilots of the 80th Fighter Group destroyed more than 200 bridges held by the Japanese and shot down around 80 Japanese planes.

Though its primary mission in Burma was the protection of the "Hump" cargo route, the group also played an important role in reopening the Ledo/Burma Road.

 

From mid-1944 onwards, the P-40s were supplemented and gradually replaced with the new, much more potent P-47 Thunderbolt. With their heavier machine gun armament (eight instead of six 0.5” machine guns) and a much higher ordnance load of up to 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) of bombs, unguided rockets and M10 “Bazooka” launchers, this new aircraft type proved to be very effective.

 

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the American aerospace company Republic Aviation from 1941 through 1945. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to medium-range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the European and Pacific theaters. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine, which also powered two U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The P-47 became one of the main United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighters of World War II and also served with other Allied air forces, including those of France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. Mexican and Brazilian squadrons fighting alongside the USAAF also flew the P-47. The Thunderbolt’s armored cockpit was relatively roomy and comfortable. Nicknamed the "Jug" owing to its appearance if stood on its nose, the P-47 was noted for its firepower, as well as its ability to resist battle damage and remain airworthy.

 

From October 1944 the operations of the 80th Fighter Group in Northern Burma concentrated on the destruction of the routes of the Burma Railway. Operations with army support (operating as "cab ranks" to be called in when needed) were very successful, with attacks on enemy airfields and lines of communication, and the aircraft flew a number escort sorties. An 80th FG squadron could finally be relocated to Shingbwiyang and was thus in the immediate vicinity of Ledo Street, which was under construction. The squadron flew many sorties against advancing Japanese forces and was instrumental in the capture of Myitkyina. Napalm bombs, a new weapon and initially improvised from drop tanks with makeshift fins, were also used with devastating effect, but some of them very close to the company's own lines.

 

By the end of the war, the group had destroyed more than 200 bridges and killed scores of bridge repair crews. Air-to-air and air-to-ground sweeps by the group's pilots claimed 80 enemy planes destroyed in the air or on the ground. The 80th Fighter Group was withdrawn from combat in May 1945 and inactivated in November.

  

General characteristics:

Crew: 1

Length: 36 ft 1.75 in (11.02 m)

Wingspan: 40 ft 9 5/16 in (12.429 m)

Height: 14 ft 8 1/16 in (4.472 m)

Airfoil: Seversky S-3

Empty weight: 10,000 lb (4,536 kg)

Max takeoff weight: 17,500 lb (7,938 kg)

 

Powerplant:

1 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 18-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 2,000 hp (1,500 kW),

driving a 4-bladed Curtiss Electric C542S constant-speed propeller, 13 ft (4.0 m) diameter

 

Performance:

Maximum speed: 426 mph (686 km/h, 370 kn) at 30,000 ft (9,100 m)

Range: 1,030 mi (1,660 km, 900 nmi)

Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (13,000 m)

 

Armament:

8x 0.5” caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns (3.400 rounds)

Up to 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) of bombs, drop tanks and/or up to ten 5” (130 mm) unguided rockets

  

The kit and its assembly:

This is a very modest what-if model – just a fictional livery on a stock model, and part of the ongoing plan to “build down” The Stash™ of kits during the ongoing Corona lockdown. The idea behind it was spawned by a number of decals for P-40s for the 80th FG I found in my scrap box, which all carried spectacular skull markings on their noses. I wondered if and how these could be adapted to another aircraft type – and the P-47 lent itself for this project due to its sheer “canvas” size, despite having a radial engine, and being the natural successor of the P-40 in USAAF service.

 

From that I spun the idea further and settled for an early Razorback P-47D, in the form of the very nice Academy kit. The kit was basically built OOB, it went together nicely without major fights – a trait that I really like about most Academy kits. The only true weak spot of the P-47 is the flaps’ undersides: they are pretty thick/massive, so that there are shallow sinkholes. These are easy to fill, though, even though I ignored this flaw and rather lowered the flaps, a mod that’s pretty easy to do.

An addition is a scratched D/F loop antenna on a streamlined socket behind the cockpit, a typical feature of P-47s operated in the BMI theatre. The loop was created with thin wire, the socket is a piece of sprue, integrated into the spine with some putty. As a late-production Razorback Thunderbolt I gave the aircraft a Curtiss Electric paddle-bladed propeller, which the Academy kit offers as an optional piece.

 

The ordnance was also taken from the kit: a pair of Bazooka triple launchers for ground attack duties and a drop tank under the fuselage.

  

Painting and markings:

A simple affair: as an early P-47, I gave the aircraft the standard USAAF livery of olive drab and neutral grey. I used Tamiya XF-62, IMHO the best interpretation of the tone, and ModelMaster 1740, actually FS 36231 instead of FS 36173, but the Dark Gull Grey is a bit lighter than Neutral Grey and looks IMHO better on the 1:72 scale model. AFAIK, no P-47 carried the earlier mid-green blotches on the wings anymore. The cockpit was painted in Interior Green, while the landing gear wells became zinc chromate yellow, very traditional.

 

The individual aircraft markings were more spectacular and also challenging. The real eye-catcher is pair of 80th FG skulls on the cowling flanks, even though these had to be completed with paint since they come from a Hobby Boss P-40N and feature empty sections for the exhaust stubs. The empty eye sockets had to be added manually, too, and since there was now a lot of white, I added – after consulting pictures of 80th FG P-40s - thin black lines to the skull with a felt tip pen. A real improvement, and it’s even authentic!

 

Furthermore, I added 1st Air Commando Group markings in the form of five white diagonal stripes around the rear fuselage. This group operated in the BMI area, e.g. P-51s, B-25s and even P-47s, but the 80th FG was not part of it. Nevertheless, the stripes suit the Razorback very well, and they were created with generic 2mm decal stripes from TL Modellbau. Each stripe had to be applied and trimmed individually, not an easy task on the conical tail with its concave and convex surface. The result is not perfect, but I am fine with it, and it looks very cool.

 

Pictures of early USAAF P-47s in the BMI are hard to find, but what I found suggests that Allied machines wore single bands on wings and tail surfaces as additional ID markings from 1943 on, much like the P-47s over Europe. On later NMF aircraft, these were dark blue (on both USAAF and RAF aircraft), and I was lucky to have a complete set of white P-47 markings left over from an Xtradecal set for SEAC RAF Thunderbolts, which comes with pre-cut bands in white and blue, very convenient! On the downside, the white fuselage stripes dramatically revealed that the P-47’s OOB decals, esp. the Stars and Bars, lacked opacity, so that I had to add some white paint manually to hide the resulting mess.

 

Typical unit markings of the 89th FS are a red spinner, and since the P-47 has only a small one, I added a thin red frame around the cowling, as carried by later real-world 89th FS P-47s, which were left in bare metal, though. As a gimmick I painted the wheel hubs in red, too. As a personal marking of the pilot I christened the aircraft “The Big Fella”, taken from an Irish pre-WWII armored car, and I added some air victory markings.

 

As usual, the kit received a black ink washing overall and some post panel shading with Revell 42 and 46 on the upper surfaces and ModelMaster 2105 (Dark French Blue Gray) underneath for visual drama and weathering. Some light soot stains around the gun muzzled were created with graphite, oil stains under the fuselage with Tamiya “Smoke”.

  

While this was not a complex build and even the livery is pretty close to real world standards, I like the outcome and how the skull markings stand out on the huge P-47. The array of fuselage stripes are an interesting visual extra, even though I was afraid that they were, together with the white ID stripes on the wings, a bit too much. The red highlights are an interesting contrast, too, and IMHO the whole decoration works fine. Everything fictional, but plausible and believable.

Met 3FM Serious Request 2015 zetten we ons dit jaar in voor kinderen en jongeren in oorlogs- en conflictgebieden: deze generatie leeft onder de meest extreme omstandigheden en heeft daardoor weinig kans op scholing en ontwikkeling. Zij zijn de stille slachtoffers van de oorlog. Voor meer info, check: www.3fm.nl/seriousrequest

boston

september 1971

 

charles street fair, beacon hill

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Met 3FM Serious Request 2015 zetten we ons dit jaar in voor kinderen en jongeren

in oorlogs- en conflictgebieden: deze generatie leeft onder de meest extreme omstandigheden en heeft daardoor weinig kans op scholing en ontwikkeling. Zij zijn de stille slachtoffers van de oorlog.

Cangas de Onís, Asturias (Spain)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson testifies during the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on “An Overview of the Fiscal Year 2024 Proposed Budget Request for NASA,” Thursday, April 27, 2023 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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