Stories and Illustrations of combat airplanes, missiles and the people that flew them

Though it needs a few more highlights (to knock down the gray), this is a reasonable-enough rendering of Lt. David Carey's A-4E Skyhaw...

Readers:  work on Dave's A4 will resume shortly!  And believe it or not, the first print is spoken for (crazy to trust in the final outc...

Well, there it is.  The fuselage.  Sort of. The stencils were added early to help me get a grip around the Skyhawk's subtle curves.  ...

Update - Well, so far, I've "Thrown out and started over" 3 times.  I'm barely hanging onto this version. In case you...

Up until now, I haven't had the time to really focus on Dave Carey's   A-4E.  So, I'm sketching myself back into the groove, g...

Well, the airplane above is a departure. Believe me, I have plenty of WW2 airplanes "to do."  However, this Vietnam-era A4 Sky...

Of all the airplanes I've ever done, the one above is the most... awesome .  Not 'awesome' in the way Sean Penn in "F...

Insomnia is my friend.  Not.  Maybe.  I don't know. Anyway, I made progress last night on Dick Cole's B-25B.  At least this far!  ...

Well, I'm certainly excited about the subject of this preliminary sketch - it's the B-25B flown by Jimmy Doolittle during the Apri...

The relationship between pilot and crew is oft-told.  You can't read an aviator's biography or watch a History Channel presentatio...

If it weren't for insomnia, I wouldn't make any progress'tall. More than a few eyes are on this project, so I thought to po...

3/28/10 UPDATE:  I spent way, way too much time on lettering OLD CROW.  And it still isn't right. So, in an effort to give me some suc...

Last summer, I read Malcolm Gladwell's book, "Outliers." In this book, the author makes a case that success is not so much a...

UPDATE - Insomnia has its benefits! Hank's Sabre is about 75% finished - all that's left is masking off the elevator, some texturin...

You're looking at what - I hear - is the greatest fighter airplane ever. The North American F-86 Sabre jet. Perhaps it was. Er, is. ...

It's done - the airplane with a Sherman tank cannon in the nose. The Beast. At least that's what I call it. And it looks beastly ...

Progress note 1-20-10: I'm laying a scan of the first mask on top of the initial sketch - I was WAY too thick on the fuselage and accor...

Thanks to a bad case of insomnia, "696" has awoken from her 65 year sleep. Forgive the lousy allusion. It's late even now as...

Five, six years ago, a buddy asked me if I had any interest in the Korean War and if so, would I think about ever "...drawing (a partic...

Presenting "YO-YO" - a B-24J Liberator as it flew with the 741st Bomber Squadron, 455th Bomber Group, 15th Air Force, Italy, circa...