Many thanks for the interest and comments!! 🙂

The contrails… like Damien said it very much depends on the atmospheric conditions. Sometimes they start a hundred yards behind the plane, sometimes they come right out of the exhaust, as on the attached example. I chose the latter as it was more interesting. Although not mentioned, contrail colours is also a nice one that always provokes discussion 🙂 They can be anywhere between reflective white and pitch black, and lots of colour variations too, all depending on weather and sun angles. Check this photo…
http://skyraider3d.military-meshes.com/reference/contrails_reference_01.jpg

Displaying propellers… a very subjective thing and a never ending discussion on aviation art forums! 😀
For these images I chose for a bit of a photographic look. Being an airshow photographer myself, this is what I’m familiar with. But on future artwork I will experiment with “bent” props as seen on some wartime photos as well as full-circle props that, apart from the yellow circle, are nearly invisible.

RobAnt, I am not sure what you mean about the two-dimensional thing. My artwork is three dimentional to start with 😉 I build a virtual scale model replica of the aircraft in 3D CAD software and then use that to make the images.

Thanks Davski. I agree about the poor legibility and have undone the justifying of the text. It’s centered again and additionally I have decreased the spacing to improve legibility further.

Frutiger is a commercial font which I don’t have. Personally I’m not too keen on it either. It’s a bit too plain to my taste.

The font I use is BankGothic. I always liked it (using it on my website too) and today I noticed was used on some 359th FG reunion material too, funnily enough. I guess I’ll stick with it. In the end I got more people commenting how much they liked and only very few wished for something else. This whole thing could keep me busy for months, but in the end it’s the artwork that counts 🙂

So here are the latest incarnations of the prints.

And a vertical one. Unfortunately the print format is fixed, as I would’ve liked more space at the bottom.