Outstanding stuff. You and Gray are so lucky to be able to draw at that level as a hobby when professionals whove spent years at art school cant attain that quality. One small critisism, youre using the same grey to do the window highlights as you are for shading and it doesnt look right. Remember glass doesnt have shadows(unless its tinted), it only reflects and refracts surrounding colors.

There is a really good artist that does box art of WW2 planes for Dragon model kits, Ive been trying to track down who he is, if anyone can find out Id appreciate it. He did one of a He-219 Uhu nightfighter shooting down a Lancaster which I particularly like, also one of a Fw-190 doing a dive attack over D-day beaches.

When you say drawn with vector graphics do you mean like with Adobe Illustrator? Because that really looks like its a 3D model, and you can use vector curves to make 3D meshes like for NURBs or spline patches. If you did draw that with a 2D vector drawing program you are very good, but Im sure you must have copied it from a photo. But the texture on the plane is top notch no matter if its 2D or 3D, I really want to learn to texture like that.

http://www.fly-imaa.org
http://www.modelaircraft.org

Bring back IOR (I hate IMS and everyone who has allowed Bruce Farr to dictate current yacht racing design forumulas)

Tubular Bells is still my favorite album of all time, but Mikey just hasnt been able to produce anything remotely close to it after that. Now he seems to have caught on to sythisizers for a newage/world music sound, I wish he would go back to acoustic/analog.

Who would have thought that campaign pictures of U.S. war dead and posters calling GWB a war criminal would figure in a German national election given the superior nature of German society and culture. :rolleyes: I guess political gridlock and economic stagnation will be on the menu in Germany for sometime. 🙁

Sauron

Last time Bush stuck his head up from the putting green, I think he mumbled something about how “pulling out of Iraq now would make a weak America”, which can be translated to mean “this war got me the second term, Im not throwing it away now”. So US and Iraqis continue to die because Bush wants to drag this on. So yes I think pictures of US war dead do illustrate US foriegn policy.