Author Topic: Empty Handed's Profiles (Read 187284 times)

Stargazer2006 · « **Reply #50 on:** January 03, 2012, 06:04:18 PM »

Empty Handed, your profiling work is a real delight. I knew many of these already but it's a pleasure to have a second helping... Plus there is stuff in there that I had not seen before and it's real cool!

My favorites:

- Avro Aeolus (classy!)
- Bristol Brazen
- Curtiss Phantom
- Curtiss XF16C-1
- Curtiss XF17C-1 (oh how I'd love to see this in plastic!!)
- Handley-Page TH-1 (very neat... what is it based upon?)
- Handley-Page Hyperion (beauty!!!)
- Parnall Paladin

I especially love the way you use gray outlines on more recent profiles instead of black. It adds to the individual touch and original feel... But I really think you ought to sign your work in a way that can make it identified (some people save stuff and don't even remember where they got it from... with a signature, they've got no excuse!!).

Also, did you do the Curtiss Thunderbird series from scratch or did you use an existing transport design as a basis?

Empty Handed · « **Reply #51 on:** January 03, 2012, 10:55:20 PM »

Thanks Stargazer! The F17C-1 is one of my favourites so I will definitely be revisiting that one.

The TH-1 is based on the Handley Page H.P. 46: http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/handley_hp-46.php

For the Thunderbird, I merely hacked and stretched about the Curtiss C-133 (page 1, reply 2) until I got the right shape. The C-133 is itself very much derived from the C-46 so I can claim something of a design lineage from the Curtiss T-32 Condor series all the way through to the Thunderbird.

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #52 on:** January 04, 2012, 02:43:57 AM »

Wonderful stuff! Love the variety

Bladerunner · « **Reply #53 on:** January 04, 2012, 03:08:44 AM »

Quote from: Empty Handed on January 03, 2012, 09:19:04 AM

Thanks guys!

Just as a point of interest, my older profiles (i.e. the ones using line drawings other than my own) can be found here:

http://s428.photobucket.com/albums/qq5/sideshowbob9/My%20Profiles/Archive/?start=all

Since it looks increasingly unlikely that I'll get to re-draw them as I had hoped, I'll just post 'em as is. While they look a little scruffy, I can't bring myself to delete them.

Hey,
Dont be so hard on yourself. I really enjoyed seeing them again.

Logan Hartke · « **Reply #54 on:** January 04, 2012, 03:21:17 AM »

Quote from: Bladerunner on January 04, 2012, 03:08:44 AM

Dont be so hard on yourself. I really enjoyed seeing them again.

I second that. The Devastator-based fighter is unusual, but very neat! Also, the F-105 looks very strangely...right. It just looks like it was meant to be.

Cheers,

Logan

Maverick · « **Reply #55 on:** January 04, 2012, 04:41:22 AM »

Older pics give us impetus to improve our skills either way, whether we redo them or merely have them for reference and it should also be remembered that it was the best we could do at a given time. All good reasons for keeping 'em.

Regards,

John

finsrin · « **Reply #56 on:** January 05, 2012, 03:34:43 PM »

Thanks for posting. Enjoy looking at art like this.
Reply 3 and 4 stuff especially interesting to me plus the C-46 variants.

Bill

Empty Handed · « **Reply #57 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:01:15 AM »

Thanks guys!

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak USAF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Republic TF-84F "Twinstreak", USAF.

Logan Hartke · « **Reply #58 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:36:19 AM »

Oh wow! Now that I like!

Cheers,

Logan

lauhof52 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:47:38 AM »

Love the twinstreak! Lauhof

Maverick · « **Reply #60 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:42:42 AM »

Twinstreak is a brilliant idea. Just the thing for the NATO airforces that adopted the type and maybe even an early Wild Weasel?

Regards,

John

Empty Handed · « **Reply #61 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:47:01 AM »

Thanks!

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak HAF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

TF-84F of the Hellenic AF.

Stargazer2006 · « **Reply #62 on:** January 11, 2012, 08:09:33 AM »

Twinstreak is brilliant. Makes you wonder why they never came up with it in real life... and also why no whiffer ever came up with it before either!!!

jcf · « **Reply #63 on:** January 11, 2012, 08:28:31 AM »

Twinstreak is indeed da bizniz.

... and it makes me wonder about a two-seater plank-wing F-84G based night-fighter with Scorpion style wingtip
missile/fuel pods.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #64 on:** January 11, 2012, 11:12:23 AM »

Thanks guys!

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak IDF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

An Israeli TF-84F evades AAA during a (very) low-level night raid during the Six-Day War while another is struck by a SAM.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #65 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:05:42 PM »

Mmmm...twinstreak...

Stargazer2006 · « **Reply #66 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:03:24 PM »

I should think that a T-2 Buckeye's canopy would do the trick in plastic... what do you say?

Empty Handed · « **Reply #67 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:58:05 PM »

I used a Grumman F9F-8T (TF-9J) canopy as I have a conversion for it (somewhere) but a Buckeye should do the job, yeah.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #68 on:** January 11, 2012, 11:47:11 PM »

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak BAF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

TF-84F of the Belgian AF.

lauhof52 · « **Reply #69 on:** January 12, 2012, 02:36:12 AM »

This is top for my belgian neighbours!

Empty Handed · « **Reply #70 on:** January 12, 2012, 07:12:23 AM »

Thanks!

Republic YRF-84L Thunderflash USAF by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

Republic YRF-84L prototype seen during it's first flight in 1953.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #71 on:** January 14, 2012, 01:25:59 AM »

Quote from: lauhof52 on January 12, 2012, 02:36:12 AM

This is top for my belgian neighbours!

This one is for you lauhof52.

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak RNLAF Whiskey Four by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

A Republic TF-84F of the Whiskey Four display team.

apophenia · « **Reply #72 on:** January 14, 2012, 06:44:38 AM »

Nice EH. This is definitely one of those 'should have beens'.

I'm intrigued by the well-worn look of the Belgian TF-84F. Trade secret or will you spill on technique?

Empty Handed · « **Reply #73 on:** January 14, 2012, 09:52:49 AM »

Thanks apophenia! My weathering technique is to spray dark grey/black over the panel lines on a separate layer and adjust the opacity of the layer to taste. I also use the multiply/screen function of the airbrush and various brushes on each individual colour to make a mottled effect. Hope that makes sense.

Republic TF-84F Twinstreak RAF 222 Sqn by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

A Republic TF-84F of 222 Squadron, RAF.

Empty Handed · « **Reply #74 on:** January 14, 2012, 10:19:42 AM »

Republic ERF-84L USAF 'Wild Weasel I' by mtpalmer1, on Flickr

The Republic ERF-84L was the USAF's first attempt at creating a dedicated SAM-hunter and would later gain the infamous appellation: Wild Weasel I.


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