Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Profiles and Pixels => Topic started by: TimeWarp Images on June 06, 2020, 12:05:27 AM
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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:
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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.
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Whoa, that Hawk is marvellous - nice work and welcome :)
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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.
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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
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Very nice CT-155! And, zeroing in, excellent work on the details of that wingtip ACMI pod :smiley:
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As a fellow Canuck, I say 'beauty, eh?'
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First part of F-86 series done early 2019:
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Nice
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2nd part; original drawings are 8000X
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Dang those Sabres are nice :smiley: Especially like those 'Bluenose' Mk.6s. There all gorgeous ... but there may be a slight bias on the personal favs, eh? ;)
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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.
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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. ;)
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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.
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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.
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This is the remainder of the M2K series from 2015:
Cheers,
Bob A.
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Nice work - do you do requests?
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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),
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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.
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Fair enough.
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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.
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That IS gorgeous! :-*
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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.
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Ki-43 series done in mid-2017:
Cheers,
Bob A.
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Part 2:
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I finally got it !
One more - a Ki-43 III
Thanks,
Bob A.
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Love your Hayabusas - especially the camo on that 25th Sentai one :-*
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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.
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Wow! Great to see the jumbo version up close ... cheers for that Bob :smiley:
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Ki-43's look great! 8)
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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.
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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."
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Well drawn, Apoph; A final thought might be that old saw: "The Devil is in the details".... [Guffaw,..]
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Percival Gull - a retrospect
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Percival Gull - Part 2
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Percival Gull-Part 3
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Those are some gorgeous Gulls! Really like your inserts too :smiley:
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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.
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Lovely work here :smiley:
Steven