Found here amongst a whole bunch of photos of Macross/Robotech toys. (Is there a specific term for the snarling mouth paint job?)
Thanks to Destoo, here's a bit more on "Nose Art." Wikipedia says:
The first recorded piece of nose art was a sea monster painted on the nose of an Italian flying boat in 1913. This was followed by the popular tradition of painting mouths underneath the propeller spinner, initiated by the German pilots in World War I, and exemplified by the cavallino of Francesco Baracca. After these beginnings, though, most nose art was conceived and produced by the aircraft ground crews, not the pilots.
And here's a patent for a shark-shaped nose for aircraft.
*Buy Macross toys at eBay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art
ReplyDeleteThe shark's teeth, commonly attributed to the AVG, were actually introduced by 112 (Kittyhawk) Squadron, RAF, in the desert during 1942.
Did you know there's actually a patent for Shark nose design?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4176813.html
The overall package does not make sense... Why should a ground use Valkyrie be fitted with the bulky FAST booster & weapon packages for orbital flight?
ReplyDeleteBesides, I doubt that there is a U.N. Army? Anyway, Valkyries with a kind of South-East-Asia paint scheme were offially sighted - just the maw is IMO a tad too much in front (it is painted on the radar radome).
Anyway, nice work - just not conclusive.
where do i get one of those!!!
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