been thinking about having a sunroof decal made. I have a black top on dark silver. I really like vintage pinups and wwii history. that is probably where it comes from is all the nose art on the bombers. thinking about having cooper flags make me a pinup for my sunroof and maybe putting spades in the corners.

just cant decide do I want to go vintage pinyp by Elvegren or Varga, or a modern one.

this one is cool. kinda blends my interest in wwii with a pinup. and it would look good on the black top.

I also plan on checkered mirrors. since alot of fighters of wwii had checkered nose and tails.

 

Although there are a few Vargas (which coincidentally was his name not Varga which Esquire changed it to to comply with the times. ) pinups with a WWII or military theme. I think you should keep it vintage, they are by far the best pinups. Naughty but still nice. I have an Esquire calendar from 1944 with a few you might like at the office. If you PM me with your email address I can take a few photos and email them to you. I really like your idea.

 

Your choice is very Bettie Page -esgue!

 

Yours looks good.
Vinyl art has been done on MINI roofs before. Usually looks great.

A "natural" pinup-
http://wwwein.lkwash.wednet.edu/baug...0up%20girl.JPG

 

I have always wanted to find a good Bettie picture to put up, but have never found one that I was willing to pull the trigger on.

 

and the one in your signature doesn't float your boat why? cause I'm impressed

 

Something like this?

 

My wife and I were considering the same thing for my (our) MCS. We are both fans of this ladies work and have discussed it w/ both the artist and Cooper Flags. Our biggest hang up was that the artist would not decide on a licence fee until we picked out which image we wanted to use (all her artwork is copyrighted and we would have to pay her the fee to get a file w/ high enough resolution not to look pixel-y that large on the car). My wife wants to look into someone airbrushing the roof now but we'll see. Check our this ladies work, really sharp.

Sumwon, she has a lot of pic of Julie Strain, kinda like the modern Bettie.

http://www.janesko.com/

 

Fantastic idea! - The checquered flag mirrors, dark silver and "roof art" will be evocative of a P-51. One of the managers at Sterling Mini near Washington, D.C. has "redtail" tags and painted his roof and mirrors red in honor of his father who flew with the Tuskeegee Airmen.

Great Stuff!

 

I LOVE the one in my sig, but where do you put it on the car? It would look stupid on the roof or hood, and it would be too small to see on the side rocker. I always fancied a shot that I saw somewhere of a cowgirl riding a bomb like a horse from WWII, but have never found a quality shot to use to replicate it. If you could recreate that shot somehow as an overhead, like you are looking down at her as she fell from the bomb bay, and put it on the root that would look HOT!

 

Awesome art! My sig is by Olivia (but don't tell her, I didn't ask )

 

http://www.fightingcolors.com/custom...51wilkeylg.jpg

 

Looks great for the side, like they were intended for planes, but on the roof?

 

I like them all. I did want to stay with a vintage theme though. Even if it is a modern piece of art it has to have a kick back to the 40's

some kill shots on the side might be neat.

here is a cool site I found yesterday. it has all the popular pinup artists from the past to the present with examples of their work and links to websites.

I probably will find a style I like and recreate it myself. I have a ton of noseart picts in books at home too.
[font=Arial][size=2]http://www.thepinupfiles.com/index2.html[/size][/font]

 

I happen to have this one tattooed on my left tricep.

 

Don't mean to highjack your thread, but this would be kewl:



From "Homer the Vigilante" and is a spoof of Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove"

 

This would be very nice to have to go by!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW

 

Pat W,


What a awsome idea. You must do it. :smile:

 

thanks for reminding me how much I like this type of art...


I have an avirex jacket with Sack Time



http://www.topgunart.com/coolstuff6.htm

 

Pinups I was thinking of earlier...

 

I did a pinup for my Mini roof.
Remember that the inage you like may not fit the space.

 

I won't tell. My wife has a couple of Janesko's images done as tatoos on her shoulders. The artist did a great job and they get a lot of attention. Some day I'll have the time to sit down decide what my MINI gets.

 

That roof amazes me every time I see it. I am assuming that was a one off, if you don't mind, what did that set you back?

I hear ya. I wish I had the talent or funds to have a truely one of a kind peice. Someday.

 

Have you looked at Hajime Sorayama before?

I am also a huge Bettie fan and thought about naming my astroblack "Dark Angel"

 

I have been working on this same thing for awhile, my dad wants to do a WWII plane scheme cause he has a DS MINI, we have been trying to find a image that works well for what he wants.