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ABMGB Inspiration
« on: July 27, 2014, 03:45:17 AM »
Some inspiration to get those creative juices flowing…

The following were recently posted by UK 75 over on Secret Projects.  They are from INSIDE INFORMATION series published in 1969.  The Artist was Leslie Ashwell Wood.





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Offline jcf

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2014, 07:39:38 AM »
That sub looks a lot like the SARO P212.




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Offline arkon

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 08:37:42 AM »
as to the nuke subs are there any civilian nuke vessels ?
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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 08:48:07 AM »
“Conspiracy theory’s got to be simple.
Sense doesn’t come into it. People are
more scared of how complicated shit
actually is than they ever are about
whatever’s supposed to be behind the
conspiracy.”
-The Peripheral, William Gibson 2014

Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 05:04:30 PM »
Lockheed-Martin is currently promoting a civilian variant of the C-130J military transport: the LM-100J



Boeing also proposed a civilian variant of the C-17 a few years ago, the BC-17X

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-close-to-launching-bc-17-214156/



someone on Modellverium built a version :)

http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/18-flugzeuge-zivil/9498-boeing-bc-17-globemaster-III-revell.html

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Offline jcf

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 12:48:24 AM »
The L-100 Hercules was built from 1964-1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-100_Hercules

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2014, 04:38:42 AM »
Anyone want to have a go at painting this scheme?

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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2014, 03:55:28 PM »
What's the official name of that scheme? Woodstock?   :))
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Re: ABMGB Inspiration
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2014, 09:24:37 PM »
Draw Decals do a number of decal sheets for civilian C-130's and C-17's