Anybody interested in stuff like this ?

[aircraftprofiles]

Hi all. I produce aircraft profile artwork (occtaionally also 3d artwork), and i would be happy to post the artwork in here in case some of you might be interested in it. So please let me know if you liek these and if you want to see more of my artwork. I´m always open to requests so if you have a favorite paintscheme let me know which on it is. I limit myself to post war US military aviation at the moment

[Ken]

Looks great & I see a tremendous attention to detail there! If you'd ever like to do a USAF C-130H I'd have some suggestions ...

[JohnB]

Looking at your firm's name...any relation to the Aircraft Profile series of the 60s-70s?

[DH82EH]

Thanks for posting.

Looking forward to more

Andy

[aircraftprofiles]

Thanks for your replys !
Ken: I will do the Herc at some point. At the moment my to-do list is long enough to keep me occupied for quite sometime, but who know, i might start working on it next week, and it might take me a year before i get started what are you looking for ?

JohnB: No relation i wasn´t even around in the 60s and most of the 70s, but i once had a website called aircraftprofiles.dk and the name kind of stuck

Andy: Thanks. You will check below (so much for the limitation to us military aviation, huh ? )

[Ken]

Since you ask ... if I had my druthers on Herks, I'd do a C-130H wearing European Two camo, just like 85-0040 from my old squadron. Herks from approximately 1984-1990 were delivered by Lockheed in this scheme, however the supply chain seemed to only stock the camo paint shades for Euro One. As you can see in the pic below, the nose has already had some repaint to the lighter shade whereas the area aft of the wing is (mostly) factory original. The only unit I knew of who took the time to match the colors correctly for repainting was the Milwaukee Reserve - and their airplanes always looked very sharp.

Rivet counters will note that the tail still says AFRES, not the later "AFRC". Also of note is the US flag, added fleet-wide after the April 1992 shootdown of a US Herk by the Peruvians. This scheme is just how our airplanes looked as we began Operation Provide Promise, the UN humanitarian airlift support of Sarajevo and Bosnia at large. Those events are largely forgotten and, although I went on to log time in Iraq & Afghanistan, I still look back on our airlift accomplishments in Bosnia with pride.

So Herks might be boring to some, but there's more than meets the eye at first glance with this one; there's detail, history, and the accomplishments of many embodied in this airplane. Replicating the finish & weathering might be a fun challenge. If you'd ever like to pursue it, I have more pics and details I could share.

Ken

[aircraftprofiles]

You got my attention thats for sure Could be a very fun project to do. From what i can tell it looks like teh Hrec is pretty straight forward modelling-wise. I always liked the USMC Hercs too, and the Navys drone carriers could be great fun to do too...and the gun-ships...and the ones with SEA scheme...not to mention all the thousands of USAF variants...Oh my, Now you got me all fired up...I better check what reference i got

[lmritger]

That's quite nice work there!

Lynn

[aircraftprofiles]

Thanks Lynn !

Here´s a few of my latest profiles: