pontiachedmark Posted October 3, 2018 Share #331 Posted October 3, 2018 Gidday Vegaskip, I am constantly blown away by the talents on display on this site. Your art is really something to be proud of. Fantastic work. Regards, Mark Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share #332 Posted October 10, 2018 'The cost of your ration of Butter has risen again.' Survivors of a torpedoed Merchant Ship in the North Atlantic during WW2 W/C 11” X 8” GrandpaPhil, JpR62, Landrotten Highlander and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share #333 Posted October 11, 2018 De havelland Sea Venom all weather fighter, operating from HMS Albion 1950/1960's I had the 'pleasure' of working with them from HMS Eagle and Victorious. w/c11” ax 8” BLACK VIKING, ccoyle, digby and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share #334 Posted October 14, 2018 Manchester Ship Canal during WW2. with a 'Liberty' ship heading for the docks. RAF Anti Aircraft Barrage Balloon Sqdn preparing for a busy night. People out for a walk along the canal banks. Life goes on!. W/C 14” X 10” Jim Mirabell61, Captain Poison, GrandpaPhil and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share #335 Posted October 15, 2018 Just a 'Liberty', what ever one you want it to be. w/c 11” X 8” Captain Poison, davyboy, lmagna and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share #336 Posted October 17, 2018 Another Liberty, this time in Ice wc 11”x 8” Jim Canute, davyboy, ccoyle and 9 others 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share #337 Posted October 29, 2018 HMS Calypso with the Destroyer Tirade 'thrashing down Channel' w/c 16” X 11” jim ccoyle, JpR62, BETAQDAVE and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian B Posted October 29, 2018 Share #338 Posted October 29, 2018 Super Picture, My great uncle served on Calypso in WW1 as a signaller, he must have the most nautical name in the whole world and yes this is his real name 'Plimsoll Drake'. mtaylor, paulsutcliffe, Captain Poison and 3 others 6 Quote HMAV Bounty 'Billings' completed ⛵ HMS Cheerful - Syren-Chuck' completed Steam Pinnace 199 'Billings bashed' - completed ⚓ HMS Ledbury F30 --White Ensign -completed 😎 HMS Vanguard 'Victory models'-- completed Bismarck Amati 1/200 --underway 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 2, 2018 Author Share #339 Posted November 2, 2018 Just for a change.'Busy day in East Anglia' B17s WW2 Painted 1997 jim ccoyle, GrandpaPhil, Landrotten Highlander and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share #340 Posted November 4, 2018 Portsmouth Harbour, a variety of small craft Acrylic about 18” X 12” ken@southside, Captain Poison, Jack12477 and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share #341 Posted November 5, 2018 Scrapyard, an exercise in detail and texture. jim John Allen, paulsutcliffe, BETAQDAVE and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share #342 Posted November 6, 2018 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 jct, davyboy, lmagna and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share #343 Posted November 10, 2018 Spritsail Barges and fishing boat getting underway Acrylic on canvas about 20” X 12” Jim Mirabell61, lmagna, ken@southside and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BETAQDAVE Posted November 10, 2018 Share #344 Posted November 10, 2018 Love your sailing ships! Keep em coming. jud, lmagna, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Dave “You’ve just got to know your limitations” Dirty Harry Current Builds: Modified MS 1/8” scale Phantom, and modified plastic/wood hybrid of Aurora 1:87 scale whaling bark Wanderer. Past Builds: (Done & sold) 1/8” scale A.J. Fisher 2 mast schooner Challenge, 1/6” scale scratch built whaler Wanderer w/ plans & fittings from A.J. Fisher, and numerous plastic kits including 1/8” scale Revell U.S.S. Constitution (twice), Cutty Sark, and Mayflower. (Done & in dry dock) Modified 1/8” scale Revell U.S.S. Constitution w/ wooden deck and masting [too close encounter w/conc. floor in move] Hope to get to builds: MS 3/16” scale Pride of Baltimore II, MS 1/2” scale pinky schooner Glad Tidings, a scratch build 3/16” scale Phantom, and a scratch build 3/16" scale Denis Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share #345 Posted November 11, 2018 For Remembrance Day HMS Britomart and Convoy Rescue Ship Copeland pick up survivors. mtaylor, ken@southside, Captain Poison and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share #346 Posted January 6, 2019 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 xken, vossiewulf, pontiachedmark and 25 others 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtaylor Posted January 6, 2019 Share #347 Posted January 6, 2019 That is a marvelous thing you did for their museum, Jim. It's the little things we do for one another that make a difference. Fernando E, lmagna, Canute and 3 others 6 Quote Mark "The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me Current Build: Past Builds: La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD Triton Cross-Section NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Non-Ship Model: On hold, maybe forever: CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share #348 Posted January 8, 2019 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” JerseyCity Frankie, BLACK VIKING, Roger Pellett and 20 others 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share #349 Posted January 15, 2019 Tornado GR4 of 617 Sqd at Craig a Barns near Dunkeld Watercolour 16” X 12” mtaylor, lmagna, ken@southside and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccoyle Posted January 15, 2019 Share #350 Posted January 15, 2019 Skip, your last painting really brought back a memory. I used to do some fisheries work on Stone Lagoon in Humboldt County, California. The lagoon is the middle one of a north-south group of three lagoons that form Humboldt Lagoons State Park. There's an old red schoolhouse across the road from the lagoon. The lagoon and its lone schoolhouse made an easily seen and identified waypoint for US naval aircraft practicing low-level ingress missions, so every so often we would see an F/A-18 or Intruder zip over at treetop height, just like in your painting. Canute, mtaylor, el cid and 1 other 4 Quote Chris Coyle Greer, South Carolina When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. - Tuco Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Bf 109E-7/trop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubac's Historian Posted January 15, 2019 Share #351 Posted January 15, 2019 Really lovely use of color, amazing detail and perspective, and every painting is full of movement and vitality. mtaylor, BETAQDAVE and Canute 3 Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canute Posted January 16, 2019 Share #352 Posted January 16, 2019 I was in a flight of Phantoms, years ago. doing something pretty similar during hunting season in central Pennsylvania. We were in a low fly area and crested a ridge at very low altitude, spooking some whitetails away from some poor guy who'd probably spent all morning maneuvering to get a shot. As we rounded into a turn I glanced back and saw he wasn't exactly waving goodbye. I could see a bright orange jump suit in the tree line. jud, BETAQDAVE, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jud Posted January 16, 2019 Share #353 Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) South of Boardman, Oregon the Navy has a Bombing Range that started out as a WW 2 US Army Air Force bombing Range, still is in active use. In 64 I was running a John Deere 95 Combine like the one in the photo and in similar country on top and on the East side of Rock Creek. Navy often used to fly over as in your above painting and the pilots loved to buzz you. Usually could detect them and enjoy the flyover except for the one that caught me with my rear to the West on the crown of a hill he was skimming, set a record shutting down a 95 H when his shadow and engine noise struck at the same time, high heart rate for about 30 minutes. Think it was that shadow along with the sound that triggered that reaction, the shadow had not went over me during previous flyovers. Edited January 16, 2019 by jud el cid, mtaylor, ccoyle and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share #354 Posted January 20, 2019 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 Canute, Landrotten Highlander, BETAQDAVE and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share #355 Posted January 20, 2019 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 cog, BETAQDAVE, GrandpaPhil and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share #356 Posted January 23, 2019 Buccaneer '530' of 12 Squadron near St Fink Rattray, Blairgowrie. Autom 1988. Watercolour 16” X 11” Jack12477, davyboy, jud and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share #357 Posted January 29, 2019 'Over There' BLACK VIKING, John Allen, el cid and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share #358 Posted January 30, 2019 Two 6Sqdn Typhoons on low level exercise. Jim “This Way” “No this way” “No it’s definitely this way” Jack12477, GrandpaPhil, davyboy and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmagna Posted January 30, 2019 Share #359 Posted January 30, 2019 thought it was a little more like, "I'm not following you, you're LOST"! Love seeing your work and your diverse subjects. Makes me always wonder what is going to be next. John Allen and Canute 2 Quote Lou Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence Currant builds: Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold) Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral) 1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin) Currant research/scratchbuild: Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes Non ship build log: 1/35th UH-1H Huey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelpsutton2 Posted January 30, 2019 Share #360 Posted January 30, 2019 I have been admiring your amazing work for months and am a painter myself. Some of your paintings remind me of the late Montaque Dawson's sailing ship pic's. How long does it take for you to paint one? Could you post some pictures of the process? A paint log as it were. Canute and lmagna 2 Quote Drown you may, but go you must and your reward shall be a man's pay or a hero's grave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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