This is a post to keep everyone updated on the progress of my promised custom A-10 prints...and a request for info. sorry I've been a stranger, but I had to put the project on the back burner for a while until I could scare up a photo of the top of a hawg engine nacelle, which for some reason was harder to find than pictures of bigfoot. I finally managed to take one myself at the Dayton Air Show, where I successfully convinced a crowd of thousands that I was insane by waving my camera attached to its tripod over my head in order to snap photos of the clamshell door hinge. After about fifty tries I finally got a good one, and work resumed on my prints, which are now largely complete. I currently have finished profiles of hawgs representing all of the active duty squadrons in their current livery. I've posted a low-rez sampling below, which also includes a Euro hawg (chopper popper) just for giggles. I've also posted a close-up so you can see how much detail there is in each print. Four squadrons are absent, as I have not yet managed to scare up a good photo of any of those birds with readable name placards.
That's where you guys can help me...if any of you have recent pix of hogs from the Idaho ANG, the 66th Weapons Squadron, the 358th Lobos, or the Black Hogs that clearly show the name placard, I would love you to post them here or send them to me. Ideally, the photo would include enough info, or be supplemented by photos that include enough info for me to get the numbers and other markings right. (Often just a serial number is enough...I have both of Don's excellent photo books and the whole internet for reference, so I can normally look up a long shot. It's the close-ups that are hard to get.)
The prints look great and the art itself is designed to allow me to rapidly produce custom prints of any given hawg in the inventory, gear up or gear down, ladder door open or closed...which means I will be able to offer very large custom prints (30 inches across) of YOUR favorite hawg for around fifty bucks. Those of you going to Hawgsmoke can see a print in person if you can catch up with Don Logan, who will have a physical sample with him. As soon as I complete the rest of the current inventory hogs, I will get more information online, and you will no doubt hear about it here first.
And yes, I've got some older hogs on the way.
