Art & Inspiration How to paint WWII Nose Art: The Sequel

Thanks! I get to meet the pilot Jim Haus on Saturday. He's the featured guest on http://www.warbirdradio.com on this Thursday the 12th. I was the featured guest last Thursday. You can download the show as a podcast on their site too. And for the HAMB connection, I was sitting in the '55 when I called into the show so I could have some peace and quiet. My little boy was terrorizing the house, and there's no way he would have left me alone for the hour.

 

Great job Man!

Nick.

 

Great job.Beautiful work.

 

Looks killer! I love nose art! That would be an honor to do that someday! Great job and I'm sure you will have many more in the future!

 

Hey Chad, I'm new to the forum, but have done a little bit of nose art work too, GREAT job on the "Gooney Bird" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the B-24 of the CAF, I did a "repaint" some years ago on Bob Ponds P-40 ,I didn't get a chance to get photos of myself working on it as I was there by myself , but I enjoyed doing the work , my first "warbird" , I had also done some on a friends Navion , he was a 5 kill ace with the 52nd Fighter Group ,and a unit emblem on an O-2 "Duck" it was the 549th TASTS emblem, my main line of work is Leather military flying unit patches , I feel more comforatble doing these , and the work "enviroment " is much better than the "outside " jobs like the C47 you tackled , man that was a lot of work !

I am glad to see that there are many people still keeping the old tradition of "nose Art" alive , and it is making a comeback somewhat on the "modern" military birds !

Keep up the great work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny
Here's a link to what I do best
http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/EMBLEMHUNTER/library/Patches

 

Hi Johnny. Welcome aboard and thanks! I've been wanting to do some jackets for years and it seems I can never find the time! I just submitted pencils for a new nose art project and if it all works out, I'm sure I'll do a matching jacket.

Do you post on the Vintage Leather Jacket forum as well?

 

Yeah I do , as a matter of fact you can see some of my leather patch art there under the Jacket art/patches section of the forum , jacket art is another thing I've done several of but again , I'm not comfortable with them as they all are different in the way they're treated with oils/weather proofing etc so I'm leary about doing art on them .

But there are those out there I've seen doing them and VERY good at it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll stick with the leather unit patches , I enjoy them very much !!!!!!!!!!
Johnny
See more of my work here at this link and I'll be adding more emblems this week,
http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/EMBLEMHUNTER/library/Patches

 

Django- I was at the air museum on Saturday, and I gotta say that the lovely redhead caught my eye (and camera lens) Very nice work.

Did you do the art on the B-17, too?

 

No, but if you saw the B-17 Tshirts in the gift shop, that is the art that I'm going to paint on it once they get it to that point. They want me to paint the B-25 as well.

 

Just a quick update: The active duty 1st Air Commandos are coming up to help with the white stripes on the tail in a couple months. And thanks to HotRodJosh, I was able to secure some vintage C-47 seats so that the ****pit can continue to be restored. I dropped them off with Warbird Rescue/Grissom Air Museum this past Sunday.

 

Wow! The White Stripes on the tail of that C-47 will be pretty impressive. I didn't know they were still doing shows since their split up last February.

 

Ha!!

 

Great job!!----Looks authentic!!

Here's my brother in laws B-25 leather squadron patch he gave to me in 1943---41/2 inches in dia.
Pix shows the black panther nose art on B-25 in action.

 

Haha, I walked into that one didn't I?

Cool patch Don.

 

Amazing nose art...

 

Anyone looking for leather Squadron/Group patches contact me , I make em .........
Johnny
Link to view sample photos of various patches I've made, just a "few" of the thousands I've done in the past 30 years...............

http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/EMBLEMHUNTER/library/Patches

 

Hello , Ryan of this forum you PM'd me about wanting me to contact you about leather unit patches????????? Not sure who/where you are on this forum, please contact me,
WeBeEmblems@aol.com
Johnny
link to view 100+ patches I've made
http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/EMBLEMHUNTER/library/Patches

 

Just finished a 86th Fighter squadron "Commanches" patch I'll be adding into the PB site sometime this week .

 

Nose art looks great! Love those old war birds!

 

86th Fighter Squadron patch now added to my photobucket link , will be adding a US Navy Torpron 5 in about a week , take a look thanks and have a great day !!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny
added the above and a 47th Bombardment Sqd,48th Pursuit Sqd and a 676th Bombardment Sqd.

Will be adding a USN VF-35 this week................. now added
all patches shown are ones that were "ordered" I don't pre make any , your patch order is whatever WW2 era USAAF/USN/USMC unit you want made ........................

38 new various leather patch photos now added into the link under the ***le "Ziggy's patches"
http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/EMBLEMHUNTER/library/Patches

Check em out and thanks for looking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Info
WeBeEmblems@aol.com