These represent real aircraft, painted in realistic color schemes / markings, but the aircraft never actually existed in this form. Kind of a \"what-if\" scenario. Note: unless otherwise noted, I did not draw the line art - just colored/highlighted/shaded/edited/modified/etc.
The A-10B was a two-seat prototype, proposed to the USAF first as a trainer, then as a night/all-weather attack aircraft. Only one was built, but the USAF actually ordered a few, but then cancelled them. Had they been built, they might have looked like this.
81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, USAF s/n 82-0695, European I camo.
Duper wrote:I was glad to hear that the warthog got a reprieve and is getting the C upgrades! She'll be with us a While longer it looks like!
(single seater of course)
Yup, it's been a long time coming, they're also getting new wings. A-10s should be around for quite some time, current planning is until 2028.
Força Aérea Brasileira
336th FS, 4th TFW at Seymour Johnson AFB, USAF s/n 82-0705.
Nigerian Air Force
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:01 pm
by Octopus
It can hit womp rats.
Re:
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:59 pm
by QuestionableChaos
Octopus wrote:
It can hit womp rats.
yeah they're not much bigger than two meters
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:17 am
by Flatlander
LOL nice
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:37 pm
by Octopus
Womp hog
Re:
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:27 pm
by Duper
QuestionableChaos wrote:
yeah they're not much bigger than two meters
uh.. you ever see a 6 FOOT rat!??!?? that's a small horse or a Subway delivery car!
Re:
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:59 pm
by Flatlander
Octopus wrote:Womp hog
Wow, trippy
A couple Polish hogs:
Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej
Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:24 pm
by Octopus
Wow! Looking good, man!
So you're looking at fighter jets that these countries have today and using that as reference? Or are you using a Code of Regulations
book to be 100% accurate?
Re:
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:11 am
by Flatlander
Octopus wrote:Wow! Looking good, man!
So you're looking at fighter jets that these countries have today and using that as reference? Or are you using a Code of Regulations
book to be 100% accurate?
Mostly looking at existing aircraft - that last one is based on a Polish F-16, for example.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:31 am
by Octopus
oh. Well my images are made using a Code of Regulations.
Re:
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:51 pm
by Flatlander
Octopus wrote:oh. Well my images are made using a Code of Regulations.
Heh
Well, that's all my A-10B profiles. However, I'm not quite done with the A-10. As you can see by this photo that I took of an A-10 at an airshow earlier this year, it is common to paint "door art" on the inside of the door that covers the cockpit access ladder.
So, I made my own A-10 door art template and created some fictional door art.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:03 pm
by Octopus
Nice work! And does that ladder extend out of the plane?
Re:
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:10 pm
by Flatlander
Octopus wrote:Nice work! And does that ladder extend out of the plane?
very nice, i allways liked the a10. awesome and innovative airplane design. in the 90th i watched them doing targetruns in a nearby trainingyard here in northwest germany, the onboard cannon they have is a monster!
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:33 am
by Octopus
yup
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:52 pm
by Flatlander
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:26 pm
by Flatlander
That's it for the A-10. Next up I decided to do some fictional profiles of the Curtiss-Wright CW-21B Demon, a late 1930's fighter that was only used in small numbers by the Chinese and Dutch East Indies (basically, cannon fodder to the Japanese).
Supposing some of the aircraft were impounded by the US (which happened with some other aircraft, life the Vultee P-66 and North American P-64), they might have looked like this:
And, if some had found their way to France, they might have looked something like this one in the markings of GC1/5:
Again as with the A-10B profile, I did not draw the line art for this, just colored/highlighted/shaded/edited/modified/etc.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:54 pm
by Flatlander
Royal Australian Air Force:
Flygvapnet (Swedish Air Force):
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:28 pm
by Octopus
Very cool!
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:00 pm
by Flatlander
Thanks!
An Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force) CW-21B, in regular and winter camouflage:
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:21 pm
by Octopus
Looks good.
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:30 pm
by Flatlander
Going back a few more years to the Great War...
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:43 pm
by Sedwick
As a longtime Peanuts fan, I must say: Kickass! Now do it in all red with widely spaced, hand-drawn horizontal pinstripes!
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:51 pm
by Octopus
I think this one is my favorite.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:13 am
by Flatlander
Thanks. Now, coming back to the present (or at least, the recent past) - here is the MiG 1.42 (aka 1.44), which at one point was referred to as the \"MiG-35.\" That designation has since been assigned to a development of the MiG-29M2. I'm keeping the MiG-35 designation for this what-if, and using the NATO reporting name of \"Flatpack.\"
Indian Air Force
(new) Iraqi Air Force
Polish Air Force
Sri Lanka Air Force
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:00 pm
by Octopus
That's cool.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:58 am
by Flatlander
Three Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force 'Flatpacks':