Author Topic: TimeWarp Images (Read 7744 times)

TimeWarp Images · « **on:** June 06, 2020, 12:05:27 AM »

My name is Bob Aikens; I live in Dartmouth NS, Canada - I'm a veteran plastic modeler who gave up the plastic for pixils. (there are reasons for this and none of them are simple). I used to frequent and contribute to Simmer's Paint Shop before it's demise. Also been contributing to Hyperscale in both plastic and pixils since 2003.
Here is a sample of recent work from early this year - series of BA Hawk profiles:

Find crop of full-size image:+ 2 remaining Hawks

Find attached an F-86 series done early 2019:

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2020, 12:44:32 AM »

Hi Bob:

Welcome to BTS. Very pleased to have someone who also does Canadian subjects.

Beautiful job on the Hawk. Have you done any Voodoos? I was with 409 SQN back in the days long gone.

Carl from Ottawa.

Small brown dog · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2020, 01:07:50 AM »

Whoa, that Hawk is marvellous - nice work and welcome :)

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2020, 01:52:20 AM »

Thanks, Carl & SBD. I've modeled the old Monogram kit in Cdn. But it sounds like a great subject for a profile project.

B.A.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2020, 01:55:29 AM »

Very nice work mate - welcome aboard. If you are up to it, some additional Hawk what's would be wonderful. Here are some suggestions:

RNZAF Hawk with scheme similar to that worry by their MB.339s
Israeli Hawk with scheme similar to their M346s
Spanish Hawk with scheme similar to their CASA C-101 Aviojets

apophenia · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2020, 02:36:39 AM »

Very nice CT-155! And, zeroing in, excellent work on the details of that wingtip ACMI pod

Geist · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2020, 10:04:33 PM »

The Rat · « **Reply #7 on:** June 07, 2020, 02:14:41 AM »

As a fellow Canuck, I say 'beauty, eh?'

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2020, 06:35:11 PM »

First part of F-86 series done early 2019:

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2020, 01:30:59 AM »

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2020, 05:46:17 AM »

2nd part; original drawings are 8000X

apophenia · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2020, 10:19:00 AM »

Dang those Sabres are nice

Especially like those 'Bluenose' Mk.6s. There all gorgeous ... but there may be a slight bias on the personal favs, eh?

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2020, 06:59:56 PM »

Thanks, Apop; 4more to come in the series. Yes, that Bluenose bias is there - and also the fact that the Orenda-powered Canadair CL-13B was arguably the definitive Sabre.

Cheers,

Bob A.

Old Wombat · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2020, 07:22:46 PM »

Quote from: TimeWarp Images on June 19, 2020, 06:59:56 PM

Thanks, Apop; 4more to come in the series. Yes, that Bluenose bias is there - and also the fact that the Orenda-powered Canadair CL-13B was arguably the definitive Sabre.

Cheers,

Bob A.

Unfortunately, I'd have to argue that, with the exception of max. altitude & rate of climb, the CAC CA-27 Avon Sabre pips it at the post on most parameters.

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #14 on:** June 19, 2020, 11:19:36 PM »

O.W. -Of course you're right re performance: all Sabre references must be qualified with regard to Avon Sabres. But a case might be made that CA-27 was enough of a design departure to be called 'new'. An analogy might be the Merlin Spitfires/Griffon Spitfires
schism; both were called Spitfires, but both were very different airplanes.

As an aside, this reminds me of the ever-present undercurrent of debate among linguists as to what constitutes a dialect as opposed to a language. As one wag succinctly put it - a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

In the future, I'll be wary of unqualified statements, as we all should.

Cheers,
Bob A.

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2020, 06:03:42 PM »

Here is the remainder of this series - due to their size and attention to stenciling, they took about 3 months to complete. There wasn't much 'cookie-cutter' about the project, save the original working templates.

Cheers,

Bob A.

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #16 on:** July 11, 2020, 08:10:37 PM »

This is the remainder of the M2K series from 2015:

Cheers,

Bob A.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2020, 03:34:36 AM »

Nice work - do you do requests?

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2020, 05:46:53 AM »

Thanks, GTX - No, I don't do requests; because of the large working format(s) and the rather considerable amount of time spent I can only make commitments to myself about what I'll tackle. Admittedly, there's no plan: it may be based on my tastes as a former modeler !

I started off doing a lot of WW II aircraft - more recently I've done varying-size series: AMX,Gripen, Electra & Electra Jr., Expeditor, MiG-17, Starfighter, Lancer (Mig_21),
.

Really, it's all fairly whimsical and enveloped in only amateur pretensions... I'm grateful to be able to display some of my work here.

Cheers,

Bob A.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2020, 05:58:34 AM »

Fair enough.

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #20 on:** August 09, 2020, 05:41:16 AM »

As I was doing some research on the Okavango river bridge project (Botswana/Namibia) I ran across a picture of Botswana's Embraer 170 ; the aircraft and the livery were so striking I had to try a drawing; this is the result.

Cheers,

Bob A.

ChernayaAkula · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2020, 09:02:18 AM »

That IS gorgeous!

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2020, 12:05:00 AM »

My artistic imagination was largely influenced by Radio and comic books[that sounds so naive and anachronistic - I'll admit it.] i.e. both mediums engaged my childhood imagination in a unique way - I never have seemed to recover from this wonderful alchemy.

This drawing was done as a lark back in 2012.

Bob A.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:17:50 AM »

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #24 on:** September 07, 2020, 05:04:30 PM »

Ki-43 series done in mid-2017:

Cheers,

Bob A.

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #25 on:** September 07, 2020, 05:07:29 PM »

Part 2:

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2020, 12:06:12 AM »

I finally got it !

One more - a Ki-43 III

Thanks,

Bob A.

apophenia · « **Reply #27 on:** September 09, 2020, 03:17:51 AM »

Love your Hayabusas - especially the camo on that 25th Sentai one

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #28 on:** September 09, 2020, 07:23:05 PM »

Thanks, Apoph - here is the full-size drawing; save it, put it on a disk or thumb and you can have it printed at any digital photo shop. The dpi is set at 300. This will give a print ca. 17" X 9'; but you can have the print shop adjust the dpi and the size.

Cheers,

Bob A.

apophenia · « **Reply #29 on:** September 10, 2020, 08:41:35 AM »

Wow! Great to see the jumbo version up close ... cheers for that Bob

Old Wombat · « **Reply #30 on:** September 10, 2020, 01:42:41 PM »

Ki-43's look great!

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #31 on:** September 10, 2020, 08:41:51 PM »

Apoph & O.W. : thanks for the kind comments; jogging my memory about the builds I've done over the years - wayback with and old LS 1/72, the Nichimo and Otaki 1/48s, also the old Revell 1/32. And all the time thinking what an elegant aircraft this was. [Robert Frost's poem 'Design' just crept in to my head !].

Bob A.

apophenia · « **Reply #32 on:** September 11, 2020, 02:38:33 AM »

Yes, Frost is very à propos. Viewed from a certain perspective, every war machine has been designed by a 'malevolent intelligence'.

One reviewer of Frost connected Design to William James' Pragmatism. I would add Charles Sanders Peirce's maxim: "Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object."

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #33 on:** September 11, 2020, 05:14:29 AM »

Well drawn, Apoph; A final thought might be that old saw: "The Devil is in the details".... [Guffaw,..]

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #34 on:** October 24, 2020, 09:15:40 PM »

Percival Gull - a retrospect

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #35 on:** October 24, 2020, 09:18:27 PM »

Percival Gull - Part 2

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #36 on:** October 24, 2020, 09:22:08 PM »

Percival Gull-Part 3

apophenia · « **Reply #37 on:** November 04, 2020, 08:44:54 AM »

Those are some gorgeous Gulls! Really like your inserts too

TimeWarp Images · « **Reply #38 on:** November 10, 2020, 08:12:26 PM »

Thanks, Apoph -when I saw those Dora Wings boxtops, I knew it would make a good drawing project: sometimes those back alleys of aviation history can be very interesting...

Cheers,

B.A.

FAR148 · « **Reply #39 on:** November 27, 2020, 08:32:34 PM »

Lovely work here

Steven


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