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    Thank you all for your comments jim
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    It would be. After the war, she was chartered by HMG and converted for Trooping. I think she did about 6 trips. jim
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    Murmansk “It’s not over till the 'Fat Lady' sings” After Fighting it’s way across thousands of miles of hostile ocean, Russian Convoys still had to endure frequent air attacks. The 'Front Line' was less than 50 miles from Murmansk W/C 16” X 11” Jim
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    Hospital Ship UGANDA with a Chinook Helicopter unloading casualties off the Falkland Islands In 1982 while a Royal Navy WESSEX awaits its turn W/C 16” X 11” Jim
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    Sometimes it is a photograph that sparks an idea. Or something I read about and try to 'illustrate'it. The previous ones of low flying a/c were commissioned by an enthusiast who had seen the actual event. He supplied photos of the locations, I also 'google earthed' it. Using photos of a/c from the squadrons, and where practical inserting the side numbers, serials, etc. I would say, half the fun is the research. Well actually that’s wrong one third, the fun is the research. Another third, the painting. And the last the look on the 'commissioner's' face.(so far I’ve been lucky, they have liked them!) When I started the wreck, I knew I wanted a square rigger, a lifeboat and a Tug. I wasn’t sure about the composition so painted the 'setting' first.(see pic). After looking at it for a while, I put in the ship, then the lifeboat then finally the Tug. I thought about a Rocket Rescue Unit from the cliffs but decided not to. Jim
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    No particular shipwreck, but everything is based on many similar events. 16” X 11” w/c
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    The history part is intended. I also try to depict little known maritime events, and the humbler work a day vessels. You didn’t mention the end product of all that Hay. With several hundred thousand horses in London, it had to be moved. A lot of it went back to the farms it came from as fertilisers, not the most popular cargo!? jim
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    Lower Thames Dredger and a Hay Barge. 16.5” X 11.5” watercolour jim
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    Dredging Shipping in an Estuary early 20th century. jim
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    Display Here is the finished Dunkeld Cathedral and the Scottish Horse dicplay. Features the painting of the Lynx Helicopter over the Cathedral. Regiment Cap Badge. Army Air Corps flashes, regimental Tartan and Blazer badge. And for those who missed the original post. The history of the SH. The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery. It amalgamated with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry to form the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse in 1956. The regiment also became part of the Army Air Corps 655 Squadron. 6th Regiment AAC. Originally raised around the village of Dunkeld the regiment's colours and archives are kept at Dunkeld Cathedral. The painting was commissioned by one of the keepers of the archives, it shows a Lynx Helicopter of 655 Sqdn AAC flying near Dunkeld Cathedral.
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    The Ship Derwent in Capetown Docks from a photo taken by one of her crew. The red building is now a 'posh' hotel. Commissioned by a descendant of the man who took the photo Acrylic on Stretched canvas 18” X 12”ish Jim
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    I don’t know if I’ve posted this before. A bit of American Heritage Ships of John Paul Jones's squadron pass the river Forth estuary. Later, they were involved in the battle of Flamburgh Head. L to R Le Cerf , Pallas, Bonhomme Richard and Vengeance, September 1779 Jim PS the ships are my own interpretation.
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    This painting and similar, I usually do in an afternoon, 2 to 4 hours. Size A3 about 15” X 11” some times it will run over into the next day for an hour or so. I seldom do preliminary sketches , I usually know what I want and can build on it as I go. I am not a 'Water Colourist' I just use watercolour paints. White, I use gouache. I don’t know much about the technical stuff. Nor the fancy named paints. Mine are, light, medium and dark, I don’t mix up umpteen colours to get Black, I use Payne’s Grey or black if I have it. Mistakes, if bad I dump it and start againusualy different setting. Minor just wet and dab out. hope it helps. jim
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    I was asked if I could put up a 'How I do it' series here it is hope it helps jim
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    Two 6Sqdn Typhoons on low level exercise. Jim “This Way” “No this way” “No it’s definitely this way”
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    'Over There'
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    Buccaneer '530' of 12 Squadron near St Fink Rattray, Blairgowrie. Autom 1988. Watercolour 16” X 11”
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    The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery. It amalgamated with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry to form the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse in 1956. The regiment also became part of the Army Air Corps 655 Squadron. 6th Regiment AAC. Originally raised around the village of Dunkeld the regiment's colours and archives are kept at Dunkeld Cathedral. The painting was commissioned by one of the keepers of the archives, it shows a Lynx Helicopter of 655 Sqdn AAC flying near Dunkeld Cathedral. 16” X 11” Jim
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    Army Air Corps 'Scout' AH 1. Of 666 sqd in 1986. over what is part of Dunkeld Golf Course. The Loch of the Lowes in the back ground commision for a gent who was thereJim
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    Tornado GR4 of 617 Sqd at Craig a Barns near Dunkeld Watercolour 16” X 12”
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    Thanks mark. Here’s one I did yesterday Swordfish dropping a practice torpedo, aimed at the Paddle Minesweeper HMS Glen Avon. Off the coast of Fife near Crail. Glen Avon and Usk, both ex excursion steamers were taken up by the RN. Based for a while at Granton, they were often used as 'target ship' for aircraft from the torpedo school at HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail. W/C 16” X 11”
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    Last year I was approached by Katya, a Teacher in a School in Murmansk. She asked if I could help her with some of my paintings of Russian Convoys, for a project she was doing with her pupils for the School Museum. She contacted me through the Dervish75 events which Greta and I Attended. Anyway, today I received a letter with a Christmas Card from her, along with the end result of the project. A small folder with photos of my paintings. It is to be used to promote the School's Museum. A small thing but a little sign of friendship by the ordinary people of both Countries. Only the angry sensational stuff reaches the media, while us ordinary folk get on with life. Jim
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    For Remembrance Day HMS Britomart and Convoy Rescue Ship Copeland pick up survivors.
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    Spritsail Barges and fishing boat getting underway Acrylic on canvas about 20” X 12” Jim
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    HMS Patriot a Thornycroft 'M' type Destroyer towing her Observation Balloon. Patriot was credited as the first ship to sink a submarine using her own air element. She later went to the Royal Canadian Navy, her name being used for a land base,possibly still active? Jim

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