Art & Inspiration Warbird Nose Art

Here is a link to the Douglas MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, VA. Since MacArthur was a Pacific Theater general, it is specific to PACAF. Some excellent nose art and quite a bit of it to boot!

http://www.macarthurmemorial.org/Nose_Art/default.asp

 

I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but I am definitely OBSESSED.

I have 2 C-119 doors that I'm going to paint something on, and I just picked up 2 C-47 cowling panels that I'm going to desecrate as well.


Here's some nose art I painted on the CAF's B-24 with the help of my Dad, and my friends Olemuleskinner and Mikey.

More B-24 Ol' 927 pics

Mikey and Olemulskinner


My Dad...


olemuleskinner...



me...



Finshed art with my late friend Gary, the crew chief at the time.

 

Oh, and I HIGHLY recommend going to the CAF's American Airpower Heritage Museum and seeing the nose art room. I can tell you it was a religious experience for me to see the real thing in person, preserved.

http://www.airpowermuseum.org

http://www.savethegirls.org

 

This was my great uncle's B-24....Trouble Maker....and a leather patch off of his flight jacket.

 

Good stuff; somebody needs to post a pic of "The Dragon and His Tail".

 

Here's a few more for you to check out....

 

This guy doesn't like me because I like introducing his tribute page to his father to people who would be interested and appreciate him... go figure. But there are some killer nose art images there. http://www.halun.com/ww2pics.htm

 

I know I've got some around. I'll do a little digging and post some later.

 

Thanks for the pics

 

Looks like I've lost my stash of vintage nose art during my recent move.

Here's the nose art I created for my WWII aircraft inspired project called "Moonglow", thus my H.A.M.B. name.

The featured dame is my bride of 18 years. Yeah I know........what's she doing with me? I've been wondering the same thing for 18 plus years!

 

bump, how 'bout some more fellas........

 

My dad's Hellcat was know as the "Mad Wabbit". he had a friend at Warner Bros. paint a cartoon cel (which he still has) of Bugs Bunny carrying a 50 cal machine gun and rockets. Then he has a shipboard artist paint it on his plane. I'll have to see if I can find a photo.

 

Great thread.... the artwork on those old war-birds was somethin' else! I originally saw the book, "Nose Art" some years back...knew I had to have it but eventually got sidelined and forgot about it. Thnaks for reminding me, and bringing this thread to the forefront...

 

Moonglow.... great artwork!!!

 

Here is a picture of the B-17 my dad flew for 35 missions stationed in Molesworth England. He was int he 303rd Bomb group Hells Angles.

 

That would be cool to see. Navy nose art on Hellcats is fairly rare.

 

Check out this site:

http://www.savethegirls.org/index.html

 

Just a suggestion... but wouldn't this be a great focus subject for the Friday Art Gallery? Bringing the old "artform" into today's era with the great artists we have kickin' around here?

 

the Miss Angela on a b-17 bomber . im a ww2 plane fan. was raised around air fields when my family was helping restore the c-54 spirit of freedom.
i have miss angela tattooed to my leg . in time there will be a plane scene behind her

 

A picture of my dad a Marine, and his brother Army Air Corp. nose gunner in B24's met up on a island . Chance of that??

Always remembered the picture as a kid .The second picture is of the plane sitting in a s**** yard in Kingman Arizona .The picture was in Air Cl***ics June 1989.

Pictures may not be good quality

 

Check these out.... http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79018

 

Here are few that I took at an air show in Gardner, KS in 2008
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Like I said, somebody needs to post "The Dragon and His Tail". And there it is; posted by a crew-members relative, neat

 

71Dart440~ great link..... neat concept, thanks!

 

"Duchess" was a B-17G that flew with the 94th Bomb Group, 331st Bomb Squadron during WWII. My Great Uncle served on her as the ball turret gunner. She was shot down by FW-190's on October 7, 1944 while on a mission to Bohlen, Germany. Thankfully he survived the crash (the pilots were able to crash land it in a field) and 7 months in a POW camp.

 

Being into planes myself, I know that Sporty's sells Vintage Aircraft Nose Art and everything else aviation.
http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=99&Product_ID=619&CATID=9
But here are some of my own:

 

Holy ****. Are you saying your uncle was the nose gunner in Dragon and it's Tail? Any more pics???

I have the model of that one right here beside me. And it was a crime when the Collings Foundation painted over Dragon and it's Tail for Witchcraft.

 

These are pics of a P-40 RC slope glider I built from scratch. Its modeld it after LT. JB Paris, nic name Rusty. Pacific theater. Its fixed and flying again!

 

Scanned these from a old photo album my mother gave me from my dad. Don't know the name of his plane, but these pics are from late 1944, early 1945 in the South Pacific. My dad was a ball turret gunner. Forgot how many missions he flew on his tour, but all over water, and never knew how to swim.-MIKE