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Warbirds
By Warlock
Over a year ago, I happened to be strolling through an upscale art store
in our local mall when I saw a magazine on the counter next to the POS
terminal. It was a not a glossy sales tool, packed with beautiful
reproductions of artwork that was for sale, but rather a cheap
newspaper-print type of publication that you might find in the middle of
the Sunday paper. What caught my eye was an article on WWII aircraft
art. I'm a big-time warbird buff, and these full-color pictures were
just beautiful.
Having just installed a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet Plus at work, I knew
that I just had to have that magazine. I begged a copy, one of three
that the store had, from the owner. He thought that I was going to buy
something, but I had other ideas in mind.
I scanned the prints that evening, but sizing, cropping, contrast and
brightness adjustment, etc. had to wait until time was available. Well,
I've been out of work since May '93 now, so time is one commodity that I
have plenty of.
Let me take a moment here to urge any and all of you that can afford it
to buy one of these beautiful prints from the artists. If not for them,
none of this would be possible.
I'm sorry that the scans aren't in color; a hardware limitation I'm
afraid. I still have the pages from the magazine that I scanned from, so
if someone wants to take my work one step further, then by all means
contact me.
On GEnie I am R.LANGE7
WARBIRDS.GIF 87a 800 x 600 x 256 2097152 123031 09/09/93 20:48:36
A composite of all thirteen aircraft scans created with GIFDesk
W_AH-64A.GIF 87a 640 x 472 x 256 8 258579 09/09/93 19:28:38
"Desert Heroes" by Stan Stokes. An Apache banks over the sands of
Iraq in search of prey.
W_B-17.GIF 87a 640 x 427 x 256 16777216 299900 09/09/93 19:35:28
"A Very Important Painting" by John Young. The delightful practice
of airplane nose art is rendered in this scan.
W_B-24J.GIF 87a 640 x 307 x 256 16777216 182150 09/09/93 19:40:42
"No Empty Bunks Tonight" by William S. Phillips
W_B-25C.GIF 87a 640 x 286 x 256 16777216 179627 09/09/93 19:44:06
"30 Seconds Over Tokyo" by Craig Kodera. A blockbuster scan in
recognition of Doolittle's raid on Tokyo.
W_F-14.GIF 87a 640 x 437 x 256 16777216 194010 09/09/93 19:48:22
"At The Break" by Stan Stokes
W_F-15C.GIF 87a 378 x 480 x 256 16777216 151146 09/09/93 20:06:26
"On Top Of The Storm" by James Few
W_P-38J.GIF 87a 640 x 452 x 256 16777216 260255 09/09/93 20:09:46
"Satans Angels" by Stan Jones. CO Mac McGuire leads the Angels over
Manokwari Harbor.
W_P-40E.GIF 87a 640 x 387 x 256 16777216 251111 09/09/93 20:13:10
"Christmas Day Over Rangoon, 1941" by Roy Grinnell. Flying Tiger
fans unite!
W_P-51D.GIF 87a 640 x 252 x 256 16777216 140773 09/09/93 20:15:30
"The Long Ride Home" by William S. Phillips
W_SBD.GIF 87a 561 x 480 x 256 16777216 272185 09/09/93 20:26:40
"Midway - Strike Against The Akagi" by Robert Taylor. This print
depicts the critical hit that sunk the light carrier Akagi.
W_SPIT.GIF 87a 640 x 473 x 256 16777216 256879 09/09/93 20:21:30
"Spitfire On The Prowl" by Stan Stokes
W_U2.GIF 87a 438 x 480 x 256 16777216 178418 09/09/93 20:31:54
"Of Violent Demise" by Andy Andres. Francis Gary Powers in a U2B
over Sverdlovsk in May 1960.
W_YAK-3.GIF 87a 640 x 427 x 256 16777216 277848 09/09/93 21:40:20
"Russian Roulette" by Robert Taylor. A russian pilot makes a daring
head-on attack against a Bf109.