Today’s Posters surprised me! Doing a project like this can start one seeing the subject pop up in all kinds of places, in a ‘seeing patterns’ kind of way, but this just leapt off the screen at me. It’s perhaps worrying that I’m so current in the topic that can point to the origin of…
Category: Ephemera
Choc Aero Altair
Today we have a chocolate box. Confectionery featuring aircraft isn’t that unusual, but this is featuring (I think) a contemporary speedster, the Lockheed Altair, which, as well as not being a generic ‘aeroplane’ is quite well depicted and even with just two colour printing. Confectionery aircraft. Something a bit different, another area which could be…
‘Mozert’ to ‘Tokio’
Today’s image is a complete contrast to the racist violence of the secondary posters from yesterday, though the intent, from wartime America, is exactly the same. A classic calendar (see below) cheesecake artwork, this is unusual in being painted by ‘Zoë Mozert’, born as Alice Adelaide Moser, as shown here. Not a lot more to…
LeO Variations
I promised to take another look at the LeO 451 Heller kit box art again. A fair number of old kits get several different boxings, this one has at least four. One is a classic ‘all action’ style, most popular in the sixties, where the guns are firing, bombs are dropping and flak bursts going…
Doodle Amelia
One from a special day on Google, a special ‘Google Doodle’ artwork featuring noted aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Here’s she’s seen boarding her Lockheed Vega, preserved in the Smithsonian collection, which incorporates the Google letters as the ‘registration’ and in her scarf. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Image from Google, screengrab from file.
Lovely LeO
For the 95th post on the blog, we have the box art from the Heller Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 1/72 scale kit. This is one of the newer series of retro kit reissues, here with a retro cover art from an original package as the kit was issued in the 1970s. The artwork’s a…
Austering
It’s going to be an Auster anniversary this weekend at the Antique Aeroplane Association of Australia’s annual fly in at Echuca, Vic. So here’s a couple of advertisements for this military type’s transition to civil hands. The Auster J/5 Aiglet Trainer was a civil trainer development of the design, and in the advert above, has…
It’s a Chaps’ Air Force
Today it’s a brochure cover, offering further education in the Royal Australian Air Force. Having aircraft in the background might make it seem more attractive (while you’re on the phone thumbing your papers and with a classy wire in tray) but I think the earning for the wide open spaces implicit in the painting might…
Gentleman’s Concorde
Commemorating 50 years since the first flight of Concorde again (first on Vintage Aero Writer here) let’s take a look at a now iconic stamp design by David Gentleman, a remarkable artist in Britain, in any measure, and in many arts. Today the pre-decimal ‘1/6’ value in the corner looks like it belongs to a…
Koala to India
Just a fun one today, an Air India first day cover style commemoration of the first Boeing 707 flight between India and Australia in 1962. The chap is Air India’s ‘character’ used in the era, and obviously he’s decided to act like a local and copy the koala! First day covers are – yet another…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 