Banksy In California

Celebrated English street artist, Banksy is in Los Angeles to promote his film, and he has left some of his calling cards. I love this one. An English schoolboy from the 1950s - my era - carrying an MG42 loaded with crayons, about to blast a no parking sign.

Apparent, he put one on a CBS billboard so they sent a team around to dump it.

Duh! Do they know what a genuine Banksy is worth?

Do you have to be a moron to be in corporate management or does it just work out that way.

Any figure sculpters watching: please, please, sculpt it.

Convergent Evolution

This artwork by Chris Kulski is a Churchtank Mk8. It is a comment on the AngloAmerican wars in the Middle East.

However, I defy any wargamer to look at it without thinking "Imperial Super-Heavy Battle Tank". It's a sort of cultural litmus test, like 'can you hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger?'

Massive Black Art

I like to browse web sites searching for inspiration from various real artists.

These pics are from a commercial art site: www.massiveblack.com

They have dozens (hundreds?) of pics of people, aliens, machines, monsters, etc, and is well worth a look. These are just a couple of SF plane pics I downloaded.

Luftwaffe 46 - Artwork Inspiration

The Luftwaffe '46 art website:

http://www.luft46.com/duart/lufartdu.html

has some brilliant pictures such as this superb one of a FW TA183 attacking American bombers by Daniel Uhr.

If one is going to paint German jets then this is where you go for ideas.

I have put up an alternative history for WWII that might have led to Luft '46 on the Mad Genius writing blog.

http://madgeniusclub.blogspot.com/2010/03/luftwaffe-46-alternative-history.html

John

Valkyrie Nose Art

I have added som 'bomber' pinup nose-art to my Old Crow Valkyries.

These are from Archer. They are laser-printed on white paper, cut out and stuck on with a thin layer of PVA glue.

One could easily make these but one avoids copyright issues by buying from a reputable supplier. They can be made on ink-jet printers but the ink must be stabalised with artists varnish or similar as it is water soluble.

All sorts of clip art is available or you can use your own designs. I doubt GW would care about scanning GW art to make transfers for use on your personal Citadel models.

I may try making my own dry and wet transfers next. The paper can be obtained over the web from Crafty Computer Paper.