Aviation Art in Action - Christchurch Canvas

[Ian Warren]

[Ian Warren]

I made huge strides yesterday, .. started drawing/painting around 8.30am and it was a WHOOPS ! 1.30 am the next morning DOUBLE WHOOPS !

Most off the research and getting further the information and photo correct was from this superb book by Tony Phillips . (printed 2006)
Only to find there has been an update .. did not see it in the shops , but available from NZCH airport only - I want that copy!
http://www.christchurchairport.co.nz/en ... foresight/.

[Ian Warren]

I do also have this book .. CRIKEY .. look at the price here ! .. it is a goodie .. But Crikey
http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Ice-Chris ... B002Q70IOI

[Ian Warren]

Its amazing really studying the photo's I'm working for this series, its again the research .. then seeing the result .. the park is done but not the parking , that is tomorrows mission .. this would be a goodie .

[Ian Warren]

I've ordered my updated copy "With Great Foresight" by Tony Phillips , be another two weeks away, I love to see him update his book "Gateway to the Ice" and have it released as a hardcover .. I might give him a nudge.

[Ian Warren]

[Ian Warren]

[connieflyer]

Looking good Ian, but where were the ec121's parked?

[Ian Warren]

Looking good Ian, but where were the ec121's parked?

That is were my arty farty stuff will kick in ... You can see though the mag glass a No.2 , that is the base as you would have known it in the late 1960s early 1970s.

[connieflyer]

Would be nice to see a picture of the airport back then , my memory is starting to fade.

[Ian Warren]

, I think this is were I come in , biggest thing we are so lucky to have an author , Tony Phillips to compile such a detailed book, I gave my Vol.1 copy to a good friend who always stops here nearly every week, Vol.2 is updated with a few more chapters and photo info , a gorgeous book , still dose not have the photo that I have been working on , I have built that up from memory ... One guy Earl who now lives in Christchurch was a navigator on board VXE-6 'Phoenix' , ex-pat US Navy and now a tour guide at Wigram Museum, I must get that photo build completed with that specific aircraft ...