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Luft '46 Colours - Part 12
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 02:15 PM UTC
Flitzers back! Peter Allen continues his Luft ''46 saga with a massive new set of superb profiles incorporating his latest graphic techniques.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 04:31 PM UTC
Very nice....
I have always loved Peter's articles.
The illustrations are always top notch.
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 04:45 PM UTC
Hi Peter and Rowan!

Very nice profiles! Always a great source of inspiration!

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 08:09 PM UTC
Just saw it. They look really good. Thanks Peter!!!
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Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 03:31 AM UTC
Congrats Peter. I liked Arado 234 V-16 very much. And the top view of Me-262 HG Delta reminds me A-4 Skyhawk.
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Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 11:11 AM UTC
Many thanks for your kind words.
The biggest thanks should go to Mal (Holdfast) for asking the original simple little question "How do you choose colours for a Luft 46 subject?".
Without that doing profiles would probably still be a "One day I would love to do a......" kind of thing.

And SnakeEye....ever thought of changing your name to Hawkeye? When I did the model thing I serched many donor aircraft for a wing that would do the job and the Skyhawk fitted the bill better than anything else I could find. Well spotted.

Just out of market research....does anyone have any favourites?


Thanks again cheers
Peter


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Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006 - 02:53 AM UTC
Peter,
This would be a stupid question but are all the planes you choose to illustrate fantastic? Meaning not existing even on papers? Because I think that some of them were real projects.
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Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006 - 03:00 AM UTC
Definately the blueish pattern (rlm75-76 series) on Junkers EF211. I adored it. I love the colors and simple patterns such as that. Oh and the reverse squigle looks cool.
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Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006 - 12:45 PM UTC
Hi

SnakeEye
Its a very varied result. Some designs were no more than a "scribble on a fag packet" type of thing, some had detail plans drawn up, others actually made it to scale wind tunnel models and mock-ups, but some indeed were built as prototypes or at least were in the process of being built when the war ended.

Yaly´m
You hit a little nugget with your reverse camo idea.

Cheers and thanks
Peter


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Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 12:40 AM UTC
Peter superb as usual and the extra effort certainly makes a big difference. I promise I'll finish my Ta 183 soon.....................After the Focker D.VII now though
Mal
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