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| Heavenly Body |
| 03.05.06 (8:31 pm) [edit] |
A few days ago, I found this awesome Photoshop brush in the shape of the USAAF emblem, which looks like it was taken right off the side of an old airplane. I just love this brush and had to use it for something. So while I was going through all my pinups thinking maybe to use one of them with it, I found this pretty little Varga Girl with her arms spread out as if she's flying. A.E. had sent it to me a while back, and back then I had searched around online and found out what airplane it had been on. But since then... I'd forgotten.This pinup is also on a poster in my room of a P-51 Mustang called Lady Jo. She's just on the background of the poster, the airplane itself doesn't have the pinup on it. I did remember that the pinup was most likely on the side of a B-24, so I did an image search for "vargas b-24" or something like that. A B-24 bomb group site came up with a small page devoted to their nose art; there were three pages of Varga Girls on it, and lo and behold, there she was!! Dang I'm good. She was actually on three B-24s called Heavenly Body. So I did an image search for "heavenly body". A bunch of random images came up, including more than a few nekkid women, but on the third page was a picture of a B-25. Was Heavenly Body a B-25 also? I did a search for "heavenly body b-25" and found that she was!! I then decided: I'm going to make a wallpaper out of the Varga Girl and the cool USAAF Photoshop brush and the B-25. I toyed with a few designs before deciding to put the airplane's silhouette against a sunset background with the emblem and pinup in the center. I put the airplane's nose art text on the top right, but I then noticed that the bottom left corner looked very lonely and bland. So I studied pictures of the bomber before deciding to put the bombs there (they were also painted on the nose). Each bomb signifies a bombing mission. After adding the bombs (heh), I flattened all the layers and messed with the color levels for a bit - two and a half hours later, SHE'S DONE!! Besides the nose art, I learned a bit about the airplane itself. The airplane that is the nowaday Heavenly Body is a B-25J that remained stateside and was never used overseas during World War II, but did remain in service as a TB-25J multi-engine advance trainer for military pilots until 1958. She is currently painted in olive and gray, with the markings and nose art of the original Heavenly Body of the 390th Squadron, 42nd Bomb Group "Crusaders", 13th Air Force, which saw action in the South Pacific theater during World War II. A bit more about this plane (the modern one): "In April 1992, Heavenly Body was the first B-25 in fifty years to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Ranger in San Diego Bay. That event was to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of then, Lt. Col. James Doolittle's, flight of sixteen B-25 aircraft from the navy carrier, U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8), on April 18, 1942 to bomb Japan in retaliation for that country's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941."  Click to download full version! |
posted by: aesav23 (reply)
post date: 03.05.06 (4:52 pm)
It's my girl!! "Go 'Easy' on me!" ;o)
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.05.06 (4:58 pm)
Reply to: aesav23
'Easy' - nice, subtle touch ;o)
I didn't know she was "your girl", are you cheating on Nat?!?!??!
posted by: aesav23 (reply)
post date: 03.05.06 (5:05 pm)
GUN totin' lesbian! Actually, I'd done a WP with her, but I'm not sure I posted it. That's why I called her "my girl". :o)
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.05.06 (5:18 pm)
Reply to: aesav23
Ah, I see. You didn't send it, no! So I didn't know about it, which makes it justified that I used it also, AND, I had the poster in my room before you even thought about the wallpaper. Mwuahaha.
I'd love to see it though, email it to me!! :D
posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 03.07.06 (11:21 am)
Wow ... you're arguing over a lady and it's not me. Boy, I guess I'm yesterday's dinner.
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.07.06 (12:06 pm)
Reply to: dangerkitty
Or tomorrow's breakfast!!
posted by: Abby (reply)
post date: 03.07.06 (4:02 pm)
NICE!
posted by: PiccadillyCommando (reply)
post date: 03.29.06 (12:42 am)
It's funny 'cos the moment I saw the girl I thought "It's Ayn!"...not to be confused with the Steel Magnolia - or maybe they're both Ayn but just in different moods????
Excellent Pic.Ture!
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 03.29.06 (2:38 pm)
Reply to: PiccadillyCommando
Ayn can be the Heavenly Body girl, she gets to fly! *I'm* the Steel Magnolia - she's got a cowboy boots and a GUN!!!! :D
