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It
is another pleasure to have an opportunity to introduce to you my oil paintings
of my younger days. For many years, it has been one of my dreams to record my
oil paintings into photos and into a self-made art book, but many of my works
were already presented to my relatives and friends years
ago. However, some of my works still remain on walls of our home,
and I am glad to show you some of them here. I hope that you will enjoy my oil
paintings and that you will be as amused by them as I was painting them.
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"Apples on Palette" in 1972.
Famous painters such as Renoir, Gogh, Utrillo or so painted pictures even
on their painting palettes as well as canvases. Oil on plywood cut into
palette shape, about 17cm in width.
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"Mt.Fuji" in 1971.
The famous
mountain Fuji, as one of symbols for Japan, has been painted so frequently
in many Japanese style paintings. I painted it in Western oil painting technique on canvas. As Frank Sinatra sang, I did it my way.
Oil on F6 size canvas.
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"Still Life with
Pitcher" in 1975.
I was also interested in Japanese traditional
painting style, and tried painting Western still life motifs in Japanese
painting style. Oil on F3 canvas.
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"Traveler and his
Donkey at Rest" in 1972.
A quiet local landscape somewhere in imagination. Oil on P12 canvas.
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"Glass and
Apples" in 1973.
Oil on F4 size panel.
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"Sunset at
Seashore" in 1971.
Oil on F6 size canvas.
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"Peeled
Lemon" in 1972.
Oil on plywood cut into palette
shape,
about 17cm in width.
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"Landscape"
in 1977.
Oil on F0 size canvas.
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"Pears and
Glass" in 1975.
Oil on panel of around F4 canvas size.
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"Pansies in Coffee
Cup" in 1973.
Oil on panel of F1 size.
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"Flying
Bread" in 1986.
In the 1980's, I also enjoyed painting by use of acrylic colors, and this
is one of works by new painting materials. Acryl on F0 size canvas board.
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"Figure 5 on
Cloud" in 1978.
Oil on F0 size canvas.
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"Banzai Cliff in
Saipan" in 1982.
I visited Saipan 3 times, once by myself and twice with my wife. Oil on F12 size canvas.
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"Sunset on Palette" in 1972.
Oil on plywood cut into palette shape,
about 23cm in width.
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"Deformed
Checkerboard" in 1974.
After one of Paul Klee's masterpieces, by adding some original
modification. Oil on F3 size canvas.
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"Of Mice and Men" in 1972
from Robert Burns' poem.
The best laid scheme of Mice and Men
Gang aft a-gley,
And leave us naught but Grief and Pain
For Promised Joy.
Oil on F0 size canvas.
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"Huge Pear at
Seashore" in 1973.
Oil and paper decorative on F10 size
canvas.
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"Landscape"
in 1975.
Oil on F4 size canvas.
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""JE"
in 1975.
Oil on F4 canvas.
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"Quiet
Forest" in 1974.
Oil on F4 size canvas.
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"Tree on
Palette" in 1972.
Oil on plywood cut into palette
shape,
about 30cm in width.
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"Nowhereman"
in 1975.
Oil on F10 size canvas.
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"The
Sun Also Rises" in 1976.
Oil on F4
canvas.
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"Rainbow
Trout" in 1985.
A wood carved sculpture added with
details of craft clay on wood board as a wall decorative piece with width
about 45 cm. Painted with acrylic colors.
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"Far" in
1974.
Oil on F0 size canvas.
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"Abstraction
VII" in 1974.
Oil on F3 size canvas.
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"Hunter and his
Faithful Dog" in 1983.
One of those painted with acrylic colors in the 1980's. Acryl on F4 size canvas board.
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"Tree
with the Moon" in 1986.
One
of those painted with
acrylic colors in the 1980's. Acrylic
colors on panel with height about 10cm.
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"Moon and
Sea" in 1977.
After Godlieb, by adding original details like Japanese monochromatic ink
painting style. Oil on F15 size canvas.
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"Just
Play" in 2000.
After
years off the good old traditional painting tools, my enjoyment to create
continues now by use of electronic painting tools.
A
jpg picture in 300x250 pixels.
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"Green Plant on
Peaceful Scarf" in 2000.
Also enjoying digital photographing and
playing composite photographs. A 260x222 pixel
composite photo.
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"Animated Samurai" in
2000.
Still further, my pleasure to create is now expanding also to animations,
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Recently, to my joy, I have
found further other good old oil paintings of my younger days.
"A
Study on Abstract" in 1976
Oil on F4
canvas.
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"A Study of
Cubism" in 1973
Oil on F4 size canvas.
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I have been an ardent fan of masterpiece
aviation paintings by Robert Taylor, Bill Phillips, John Young, Keith
Ferris, Shigeo Koike, and so forth. Though far away from their fascinating
conventional painting touches, I have tried making some digital aviation paintings by use of my
models on FS screens. Enjoy.
First one, de Havilland Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI, No.418 RCAF City of Edmonton
Squadron, into a dive.
Note that the bomb bay doors of the fighter-bomber type differ from those
of the bomber type, which is accurately modelized in this model. And
notice
that no roundel on wing undersurface on actual Mosquito of RAF and RCAF during WWII,
which is a
historical fact in RAF well known to aircraft authorities and many ardent Mosquito
lovers, and is accurately reproduced on this model through historical
investigation.
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Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI, TH-M s/n NS850 before
her day operation. This highly detailed model also represents visually
accurate dark green and
medium sea gray camouflage patterning scheme, of course in matte finish, according to the wartime
camouflage patterning specifications by the British Air Ministry and RAF.
Note that not an actual Mosquito of RAF and RCAF in this case too was painted in
whimsical camouflage patterns, much less in perfunctorily symmetrical
camouflage patterns.
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| En route - Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI, TH-M s/n NS850
over the Channel.
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A Mosquito demonstration shots
composite of
highly authentic and accurate model with many amazing details through
skillful modeling enthusiasm. See the bomb bay section peculiar to the
fighter-bomber type Mk.VI for two 500-lb bombs in the place of four 500-lb
bombs in the bomber type Mk.IV, and a pilot and a navigator right in their correct seat positions
respectively, and unprecedented details down to mad guard wires on landing
gears, well rounded low pressure main tires with precise tread patterns, and
anti-shimmy three-layer sandwiched tail wheel structure.
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The de Havilland Mosquito bomber version. Mk.IV,
J-Jig-GB, s/n DZ367 of 105 Squadron, RAF, in dark green and ocean gray
upper camouflage and medium sea gray undersurface. Historically accurate
camouflage pattern, different from the above fighter-bomber Mk.VI
camouflage color pattern.
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Mosquito B. Mk.IV,
J-Jig-GB, now right over its target with bomb bay doors open.
"Tallyho, here we go."
You see the bomb bay doors are different from those of fighter-bomber type
Mosquito, roughly twice in length for four 500-lb bombs. Again, note that no
RAF roundel on wing undersurface of actual Mosquito of RAF during WWII, which is a historical fact in RAF well known to ex-RAF
aircrews and aircraft experts as well as many Mosquito
fans, especially those of IPMS in UK.
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| Flying over Summer Trees. A pleasant picnic
on a clear summer day with one of my scenery upgrading seasonal tree
textures, Summer Trees. A good touch of fresh, deep green leaves. |
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"Warm yourself by the
fire." A screenshot on FS2002 pro with its default
eruption FX effects, showing a digital reproduction of natural phenomenon.
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A parody shot for comparison with that
artistic box art rendition. On FS2002 pro with all the graphic performance
sliders maxed
up. Over KSFO - San Francisco International Airport.
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Rene Magritte would be gladly surprised to
look at this. A picture with frame containing four pictures with frames
after his favorite painting style. Surrealistic screenshots on FS2002 pro
with its default flying tree special FX effect <g> and my special
artistic scenery texture, "Artists' Spring Trees".
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Vincent van Gogh as well as Rene Magritte
would be amazed at this shot (-: An enlarged view of one of the fantastic
surrealistic screenshots on FS2002 pro with my humorous and artistic
scenery texture.
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| Flying Nimbus 2003 the magic broomstick over
Artists' Summer Trees. A pleasant sky walking
on a clear summer day with one of my scenery upgrading seasonal tree
textures, Artists' Summer Trees. |
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The era of FS2004 in Shigeru's Aircraft Models started in
August 2003, first with this pretty little baby.
Sky Baby Gold, an original homebuilt model based on Sky
Baby the world's smallest homebuilt staggered
wing biplane in USA in 1952, around the middle of the past century of flight, with
fuselage length 2.997m, wing span 2.814m, and max speed 298km/h powered by a Continental C-85 modified
112-hp engine. An American aircraft homebuilder Raymond Stits showed
various ideas to make a man-carrying airplane as compact as possible.
After spending 13 months of efforts, Stits saw the first flight of his
Sky Baby piloted by Bob Starr in April 1952. Raymond donated his plane to the National Air and Space Museum
in 1972. The pretty little baby is exhibited at the Experimental Aviation Association's
Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Highly detailed model with
effective use of reflective textures for streaming dynamic shine of Midas gold and chrome silver.
Reflective outside glass and inside glass with subtle cloudiness and distortion for airtight
closed cockpit ambient. Pilot figure finely made down to fingers.
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well as flight dynamics of FS2004 differ from those of FS2002 naturally.
For example, I
enjoyed my Flying Cutty Sark (designed with its fx effect files tuned for
FS2002 to work properly there as intended) just on FS2004 tropical
ocean to find this unintended but really magnificent "special fx"
effect :-)
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FS2004 633 Squadron Mosquito. Accurate
reproduction of the Mosquito featured in the 1964 Mirisch Corporation film
"633 Squadron" with code HT-E and serial number RR299. That
Mosquito airframe was modified from the postwar trainer type Mosquito T.T.35,
having a Mosquito bomber type canopy frame and painted-over transparent
nose canopy decorated with dummy nose guns as a Mosquito fighter type.
Original T.T.35 had exposed exhaust pipes, 2-stage air intakes on engine
nacelles, and a bulged belly as accurately modelized
below. It was a movie Mosquito made up for the film purpose, and there
was no actual Mosquito having a fighter type nose and a bomber type canopy
in the real wartime RAF, while the Mosquito
models released as commercial addons frequently appear mistakenly with this modified
combination never seen in real wartime Mosquitoes, and even some payware
Mosquito models mistakenly have RAF roundels on wing undersurface. No
RAF roundel on wing undersurface of actual Mosquito of RAF during WWII, which is a historical fact in RAF well known to ex-RAF
aircrews and aircraft experts as well as many Mosquito fans, and the movie
bird featured in the "633 Squadron" was far accurate to the historical fact in
this point. Only a small number of those who know well about Mosquito
can tell
differences.
By the way, that 633 Squadron main theme music, composed by Ron Goodwin,
conducted by Rumon Gamba, and performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, is
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1964 Mirisch Corporation Film 633
SQUADRON
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| FS2004 The Cutty Sark. A highly authentic
reproduction of the famous British tea
clipper Cutty Sark in 1872, upgraded with further
fine details and flight dynamics and special effects arranged specifically
for FS2004. Making the most of effective use of both reflective textures
and matte textures for respective right portions for right effects. An oil-painting-like stately shot to reach the realm of
art the author has sought for.
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| A dynamic special fx shot of FS2004 The Cutty
Sark
over the Niagara Falls. "Look up here, all those tourists onboard the
sightseeing boat down there." |
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| FS2004 P-51D Mustang Whitehead Eagle. Effective use of dynamic shine in combination with advanced bmp
textures to successfully render breathtakingly brilliant bare duralumin external surfaces, with realistic weathering and
service stains for even better realism. Flight dynamics designed specifically for FS2004 flights.
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| Shigeru's spring trees for FS2004. More
springlike
and colorful with lovely cherry trees in full blossom...
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| Shigeru's summer trees for FS2004. More
fresh
and colorful with a good touch of green green leaves...
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Jonathan Livingston the philosophic seagull
soaring over fresh summer trees
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And there's that old oak tree that I
used to play on
It's good to touch the green green trees of home
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| Shigeru' autumn trees for FS2004. More
autumnal, rich, colorful
and artistic...
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A Canadian wild goose
flying over splendid autumn trees
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Splendor of richly colored leaves
on a calm, crisp autumnal day
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| And, let it snow... |
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| Let it snow, let it snow, let it
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"Warm yourself by the fire."
FS2004 Nimbus 2004 The Magic Broomstick. Enjoying a thrilling, low-altitude, close-up sightseeing
flight over the dynamically active Kilauea Eruption. |
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FS2004 P-51D Mustang "Cute Nude" with code G4-A, s/n 472199, 362FS, 357FG,
8AF
The graceful North American P-51D Mustang, recognized by many authorities as the masterpiece of WWII fighters, outperformed all
other Allied fighters in speed, range, style, and maneuverability to become established as the principal fighter plane.
Reproduces graceful enough and yet powerful streamlines of this outstanding wild horse in absolute accuracy of entirely perfect proportion and cutting-edge fine details, making the most of all
the latest fs modeling technologies and advanced fs features, including full animations of sliding canopy, control surfaces, landing gears, pop-down landing light
and landing gear covers, pilot head turning left/right in sync and proportion with control stick movement. 150-gallon drop tanks on/off by toggling the / key. Rolling wheels, main landing gears
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The Cutty Sark, a monument to British merchant seamen of the age of
Great Sail, was designed by Scott and Linton in Dumbarton, Scotland in
1869, and was built of teak on an iron frame, with length overall 280
feet and beam 36 feet, 962 gross tons and had a sail area of 32,000
square feet. It has been said that there was never so fine a clipper
hull designed as that of the Cutty Sark. Her name, meaning short shirt
in Scotch, comes from the wee shirt worn by Nannie the witch in Robert
Burn's famous and immortal poem Tam O'Shanter, as does Nannie the witch
represented by her figurehead. She made her maiden voyage from London to
Shanghai on February 16, 1870. From 1870 to 1877, the Cutty Sark was in
service of China tea trade, making her fastest voyage from Shanghai to
London in 1871, 107 days at highest average speed 15.1 knots for a 24
hour run. Her best ever day's run, a record for any tea clipper, was 363
nautical miles and her highest measured speed was 17.5 knots. Today, the
Cutty Sark as one of the British principal exhibits of both industrial
and artistic heritage is preserved and exhibited in all her splendor in
permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London under conservation of the Cutty
Sark Trust.
FS2004 The Cutty Sark.
Highly authentic reproduction of the famous British tea clipper Cutty Sark in 1872. The world's rare "sailing and flying" simulation
model with seagulls in formation, upgraded with further fine details and flight dynamics and special effects arranged specifically for
FS2004, expanding an exquisitely artistic dimension of fs world. Making the most of effective use of both reflective textures and
matte textures for respective right portions for right effects. Flowing elegant hull authentically reproduced after the real one
with fine details including figurehead of Nannie the witch at bow, anchors, capstan, windlass, landing boats and oars, self-defense
cannons on deck, golden steering wheel at stern, masts, yards, sails and stays in authentic sail ship rigging manners, flag of that time
and seven seagulls flying with waving wings.
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| FS2004/FSX de Havilland Mosquito bomber version.
Mk.IV,
J-Jig-GB, s/n DZ367 of 105 Squadron, RAF, in authentic matte dark green and
dark sea gray upper camouflage and medium sea gray undersurface. Historically accurate
matte camouflage with subtle weathering, in contrast to reflective window glass
surfaces. This highly detailed model also represents visually
accurate dark green and dark sea gray camouflage patterning scheme for
bomber type different from that for fighter type, according to the wartime
camouflage patterning specifications by the British Air Ministry and RAF.
Note that not an actual Mosquito of RAF was painted in
whimsical camouflage patterns, much less in perfunctorily symmetrical
camouflage patterns as seen in some commercially sold addon models. If you
are a Mosquito aficionado, you will appreciate the correct camouflage
pattern precisely applied on the model shown below.
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| FS2004/FSX de Havilland Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI, No.418 RCAF City of Edmonton
Squadron. This highly detailed Wooden Wonder model represents visually
accurate dark green and
medium sea gray camouflage patterning scheme with medium sea gray
undersurface, of course in matte finish, according to the wartime
camouflage patterning specifications by the British Air Ministry and RAF.
Note that the upper surface camouflage patterning scheme for
fighter/bomber type Mosquito VI shown below is different from that for
bomber type Mosquito IV, basically green and gray are reversed. Fine
details in cockpit reproduce a pilot and a navigator right in their
authentically correct seating positions,
characteristic to Mosquito's compact cockpit seating, with the navigator
slightly behind the pilot yet still close enough to the controls to take
over in any emergency. The navigator pointing at their target in a map
on his lap.
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FS2004/FSX Sky Baby, the world's smallest homebuilt staggered wing biplane
in USA in 1952, with fuselage length 2.997m, wing span 2.814m, and max speed 298km/h powered by a Continental C-85 modified
112-hp engine. An American aircraft homebuilder Raymond Stits showed various ideas to make a man-carrying airplane as compact
as possible. After spending 13 months of efforts, Stits saw the first flight of his Sky Baby piloted by Bob Starr in April 1952.
Highly detailed model with effective use of reflective textures of Big
Wave and Mt.Fuji painting design.
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| FS2004/FSX F-51D Mustang USAF. With its new designation F-51D
after the establishment of the United States Air Force in 1947, Mustang was employed also in the Korean War. USAF F-51D
"Korean
Shark" with code FF-726, s/n 423726 with shark mouth nose marking on
brilliant bare duralumin surface. Pay special attention to the precise
lettering font of USAF, and the postwar star insignia with red stripe
adopted after the establishment of the United States Air Force,
correctly reproduced on this model. On the other hand, some commercially sold payware Mustang models mistakenly
have
both the "post-WWII USAF" lettering and the "WWII-time star
insignia (without red stripe)" just on them, showing an apparent mistake
owing to their lack of accurate historical investigation.
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| FS2004/FSX Sky Mini Golden Lion. A sense of
seasons, beautiful transition from late autumn to early winter...
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| FS2004/FSX Beagle B.206 Basset. A
special version for the Tanakas, all in a family, completely updated
further with latest features for FS2004 flights, including reflective textures, full
animations, further details, and more. A really ultimate
private airplane, rendering a very alluring fuselage streamline
leading to captivating tail of the Basset.
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SST2012 "La Marseillaise"
pour Air France. Ce modele futuriste de haute qualite, SST2012. Annee
2012, une nouvelle generation de supersonic aux couleurs de la Air
France. Operationnelles vitesse Mach 2.3. Realisation originale de
Shigeru. La ecurie speciale comportant la "La celebre Liberte le peuple guidant" a peint par Eugene
Delacroix, 28 juillet 1830, pour commemorer la revolution de juillet qui avait juste apporte Louis-Philippe au trone francais ; Auvent.
"Liberte, Liberte cherie
Combats avec tes defenseurs !
Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire
Accoure a tes males accents"  |
FS2004/FSX Sky Mini Hot Rod, a modernized monoplane version of Sky Baby the world's smallest home built biplane, in overall well waxed and polished 1950s hot rod scheme.
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FS2004/FSX Canadian Wild Geese, in a
V-shaped formation characteristic to this species, traveling over the beautiful countryside on
a misty autumnal morning... a poetic
inspiration to enter the realm of art.
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FS2004/FSX Mosquito F.B.VI 235 Squadron. Another authentic reproduction of the Wooden
Wonder. Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI with precisely reproduced slipper fuel tanks,
s/n HR138, code Y, No.235 Squadron, RAF in accurately retraced dark green and ocean gray
upper camouflage pattern and medium sea gray undersurface, with b/w
invasion stripes also applied to accurate positions and in precise proportions.
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FS2004/FSX Orion Space Clipper. The Orion is a reusable
space craft in the classic and quintessential SF film directed by Stanley
Kubrick "2001: a space odyssey". In the film, now defunct Pan American airlines was the courier using the Orion
to transport Dr. Floyd to Space Station 5. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, it
was described as a winged orbital assist stage that detaches and flies back to Earth.
It is a time travel to enjoy flying this FS2004/FSX model after the depiction
in the epic drama of SF adventure and exploration released in 1968 with
expectations for 2001, on FS2004 released in 2003, and on FSX released in
2006, now in the year 2007 we
live.
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