"Knights of the Air" by steelrazer ()

Vue • Aviation • posted on Apr 20, 2012

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There I was...putting together a nifty dogfight with a cool color tone and all of a sudden the thought of all those "Enlist in the Air Corps" posters of WW 1 filled my brain (to say nothing of all those dime novel covers!). What's a guy gonna do? Ah, the drama, the patriotism...the desire to go try out this new toy for nearly free!!!!

Hanriot-Dupont HD1 of the "Arma Azzurra" by EOLE, free at sketchup warehouse.
Albatross: free at sharecg.com generously by Neiwil
Pilots: free Red Baron by Max Guenther at sketchup...tweaked and re-nationalized by me.
There's another plane there, but I'm afraid it got shot down before I could identify it...

Vue 6 Infinite and Photoshop CS3

Image Comments (11)

warder348 ()  posted at 10:44PM Fri, 20 April 2012

Nice, love the old planes and the old posters!

neiwil ()  posted at 3:54AM Sat, 21 April 2012

"Where do I sign up?....hang on is this a mistake, why is it only a 12 day contract?" Very neat poster/cover, nice dynamic action and NOT one of my models that got 'steelrazer'd' :-) cool FX on that too. Thanks for the mention....

Maxidyne ()  posted at 6:49AM Sat, 21 April 2012

Wonderful idea Bill and a fine recruiting call for "The 20 Minuters". I too love all those RFC and RAF posters of old with the over exaggerated out of scale aircraft, a bit like some of those great car ad's of the 50's. Hanriot-Dupont HD1 is another must have model too. Well done mate :)

AliceFromLake ()  posted at 8:24AM Sat, 21 April 2012

Very fine poster. Sorry, I can not sign in. I am the enemy... LOL...

debbielove ()  posted at 8:52AM Sat, 21 April 2012

Very fine poster and a great idea! I like it! Love the Hanriot, could not find it though....yet! lol Look forward to more like this! And cheers for the comments mate! Rob

thecytron ()  posted at 10:10AM Sat, 21 April 2012

Fantastic presentation!

grafikeer ()  posted at 12:08PM Sat, 21 April 2012

Love the retro poster look,and the overall dynamic composition...very cool!

Aleksandor51 ()  posted at 12:33AM Sun, 22 April 2012

Excellent! Terrific composition in every way, makes you want to say, "Curse you Red Baron!"

Osper ()  posted at 1:32PM Sun, 22 April 2012

Nice one!!!! I'll bet the War Department would have loved to use this.

dbrv6 ()  posted at 9:42AM Mon, 23 April 2012

Excellent! Great use of the m odels and results that could be a great poster or book cover.

Briney ()  posted at 4:38AM Tue, 24 April 2012

"By Jove..., I say Chaps! Absolutely topping poster, eh? what?" Tones and colours give it the right note.