New Nose Art at Lone Star Flight Museum

[p51]

What was the 'canvas' for this? I'm always curious where panels like this come from (taken from another airplane, v/s, made from sheet stock and a pile of rivets)...

I used a section of the roof from the badly damaged Lockheed Lodestar that I once had. It has yielded a LOT of art pieces.

I've given up trying to find a similar find, myself after many years (from back when hardly anyone was painting stuff like this). I've never been lucky enough to be in the right place and right time to find any early airplane I could get skin off of...

[TAdan]

<<<<<< Yup, proud to have a piece of it hanging in my home.

That must have been N43WT Lodestar c/n 18-2565; I have been struggling finding out its fate after someone sent me a 2004 pic.
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/guestphotos-44.htm (photo by Gerben Groothuis).
So it was cut up for art, eh? Quite like that!
thks
Ruud

Lockheed C-60 N43WT was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The wings, entire tail surfaces, and engines had already been removed long before the hurricane. I was told the plan was for the new owner who had purchased the plane some time before Hurricane Ike struck, was to truck the fuselage to a new home about 100miles away, but the Hurricane destroyed it before that happened, and only the wings and other parts had already been trucked out. I bought the horribly beat up remains and later cut it up to make artwork pieces such as the subject of this thread. It was a sad ending for such a neat plane, but it lives on as artwork now in a lot of homes, offices and museums.

[Pogo]

What's going on in this picture? The Privateer is, of course, AWOL in Arizona or some such place...?



BEAUTIFULLY done panel, Jason!!

[carlisle1926]

This thread is roughly 2 years old. The Privateer was moved to Arizona in October or so of 2015.

[Dave Homewood]

Very awesome, well done!

[Pogo]

This thread is roughly 2 years old.

When will I ever learn... Thanks Jason.

[RuudLeeuw]

Thanks Jason, the best under the circumstances.
rgds
Rudi