4.3 ) Illustrations

Provides dynamic historic paintings, color profiles and line art drawings of models and/or diorama conceptions.

Example 1 : Boxart Painting : DML boxart painting for Panther model kit. Scene can depict many locales, including 1943 Italy, 1944 France / Belgium, 1945 Germany.

Example 2 : Screen-Capture : Online combat games offered detailed realism on equipment, environmental settings and weapons behavior. Clip below is from EA.com's Battelfield2 first-person-shooter assault/combat game depicting USMC troops in Blackhawk chopper.

Example 3 : Painting : 30 April 1945, Untersharfuhrer Georg Diers in Tiger 314 of Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 503 defended Berlin's Reichstag along with German troops armed with Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks. Destroyed Soviet T-34 tank in background.

Example 4 : Painting : 7 May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea, F4F figthers strafing Japanese carrier Shoho. Note the early US insignia of blue roundel, white star, red dot and its fin white-red flash. To avoid confusion with Japanese insignia, the fin flash and red dot were removed by June 1942.

Example 5 : Boxart Painting : TAMIYA's boxart painting for their King Tiger (Tiger II) model kit. Hard edge three-tone camouflage of African Yellow, Red Brown, Forest Green with intervening color dapples. Scene depicts armored thrust during the German 1944 Ardennes Offensive in Belgium.

Example 6 : Commercial Boxart : REVELL's packaging format for 1.72nd scale M2A2 Bradley figthing vehicle in European three-tone camouflage for late-1990s UN Kosovo peace-keeping duties.

Example 7 : Color Plate: Royal Air Force Typhoon ground-attack aircraft, showing two tone upper surface camouflage. Door cockpit indicates early production version. US-L insignia and white nose indicates No.56 Squadron, November 1942.

Advertising inset for Soviet-built I-15 figther in Spanish markings.

Commercial boxart for REVELL F4U Corsair kit in US Navy decal markings during 1950-1953 Korean War.

Action painting showing point of bomb release for US Navy SBC Dauntless dive-bomber. Early war US roundel insignia indicates 1942 - 1943 era.

Color schematic of triple 2cm cannon mount with ammunition lockers and armored shields.

Detailed graphical arts can be scanned into a computer and transferred to a decal sheet via a color printer. This can then be applied onto the model with minimum effort.

Line-art drawings can show interior parts and configuration. Value information for scratch-built modeling projects.