[WWI] Harleyford Books/Combat Art

[J.R. Boye]

Yeah, T.O.M. , like that grey-green. It looks like a match for the
painted metal parts, only on fabric. I'm not the list expert on
coloration, though. You should look up the huge treatise on pigmentation
that ran a couple of months ago on this list. Incredible.


       I was commenting on the Revell box art and how much more evocative
it was than Airfix's ( with the same red triplane spewing garish flames
in every scene -there was an entire squadron of them on the Handley-Page
box ).
      Anyway, I got to thinking about the cover art and how it affected
me as an impressionable kid, and wondered if list people remember any art
that fascinated them from that time.
      Personally, I remember staring at "Bishop of Canada", on the cover
of the Dogfight game. The wings of the Albatros are just breaking off.
The German pilot knows this is it - you can see it in his face - and he
will have some time to think about his fate on the way down. It's a
terrible image. He may have done this to numerous other men himself, but
it is still terrible.

                                J.R. Boye