B-17 Fighter & Nose Art
This was a cool project we created for one of our favorite clients, Greg from "Ballistic BBQ". Greg is a fan of the vintage posters of past wars. The pin-up style nose art from when men flew into battle with their ladies by their side!
We put extra special care into each rivet, slight dent/scratch in the metal and the overall shine/lighting of the plane as it is parked in the airfield. The feeling that this guy went to battle a few times for his country.
Fun Fact: In war, the fighters always marked their missions with images such as planes or bombs. The more images you saw, meant the amount of missions flown. Greg is a BBQ guy, so we marked his missions with Burgers. (mid left of image)
This graphic was entirely hand drawn. Custom yo! We have attached dev concepts to show how this project progressed in the studio.
See more of Greg and his BBQ here: https://www.youtube.com/user/sd4547
See other nose art from history here:
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/flying31.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ff/82/42/ff82429a4baba0b08ccbfc565455702a.jpg
