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5 Steps to Becoming a Skilled Aviation Artist 828 794 Daniel Uhr
Aviation art - Miles M.52

5 Steps to Becoming a Skilled Aviation Artist

A recent work I did Here I show few steps. They are divided in 5 steps and the main idea is to show the importance to know the aircraft structure before you start to draw, to paint, to illustrate or generate it in a 3D software. Research is really important, as well as some other…

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Discover the Heinkel He 119: Germany’s Experimental Single-Engine Monoplane 800 573 admin
Aviation art - Heinkel He 119

Discover the Heinkel He 119: Germany’s Experimental Single-Engine Monoplane

The Heinkel He 119 was an experimental single-engine monoplane developed in Germany. A private venture by Heinkel to test radical ideas by the Günter brothers, the He 119 was originally intended to act as an unarmed reconnaissance bomber capable of eluding all fighters due to its high performance. Design was begun in the late summer…

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The Mirage III Iconic Design 1000 778 admin
Aviation art - Mirage IIIO

The Mirage III Iconic Design

The Dassault Mirage III is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fighter aircraft produced by Dassault Aviation for the French Air Force and widely exported. Prominent operators included Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Pakistan and Israel, as well as a number of nonaligned nations. Though an older design, the second generation fighter is still a fairly maneuverable aircraft and an effective…

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Step-by-Step Animation of the Iconic B26 Marauder MK 1000 705 admin

Step-by-Step Animation of the Iconic B26 Marauder MK

This is a animation from some steps I took to develop this illustration Below some history about B26. The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engined medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company from 1941 to 1945. First used in the Pacific Theater in early 1942, it was also used in theMediterranean…

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The fastest high-speed bomber that never flew 1024 662 admin

The fastest high-speed bomber that never flew

Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition organised just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber. The new designs would be a direct successor to the Schnellbomber philosophy, using high speed as its primary defense. But the Bomber B would also be a much larger and more…

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MiG-17s: Deadly Interceptors Designed to Stop Bombers in Their Tracks 1000 714 admin
Aviation art - MiG17

MiG-17s: Deadly Interceptors Designed to Stop Bombers in Their Tracks

MiG-17s were designed to intercept straight-and-level-flying enemy bombers, not for air-to-air combat (dogfighting) with other fighters. This subsonic (.93 Mach) fighter was effective against slower (.6-.8 Mach), heavily loaded U.S. fighter-bombers, as well as the mainstay American strategic bombers during the MiG-17’s development cycle (such as the Boeing B-50 Superfortress or Convair B-36 Peacemaker, which were…

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