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Old 4th January 2005, 23:48
Rabe Anton Rabe Anton is offline
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Aviation Art - Bf 109Es in Flight

There is only one word to describe the question of coloration and physical appearance of Bf 109Es in Luftwaffe service during 1940. That word is "swamp." I would not want to go there, particularly in a critical mode dealing with artwork.

I would like to say, though, that there is one element of aviation art like yours that is often glaringly overlooked, and that is the appearance of the ground, topography, or earth's surface underneath the flying machines.
In other words, if the subject airplanes are flying over Brittany, then the field patterns and terrain ought to look like Brittany. If the County of Kent, then it ought to look like Kent from the air. These are hardly the same. As that titanic scholar of French rural history Marc Bloch taught us in the 1930s, there was and is a vast diversity of land usage from the Irish Channel to the Urals. And it ain't always easy to create a convincing impression of the "bird's eye view" just where the birds are.

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