Preview Of My New Profiles

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Hello everybody!!

As I said in my return message, I had a few projects before I left the forum for few months. One of those projects was an alternate histrory and some profiles based on E.P. Jacob comics: Blake and Mortimer.
Particulary, I was interested in imagining the follow on of the Espadon/Swordfish aircraft.

Here is a preview of the profiles.



Coming soon in the "Profiles and CGs" forums, bigger profiles of each aircrafts and backstory.


Hope you'll enjoy the drawings, and I really want to know your opinion about the subjects. How many of you know Blake & Mortimer comics? Are they famous out of France?

Well, I'm waiting for your comments!

[GTX]

Cool!!!

Regards,

Greg

[Archangel]

I like what I see. Especially the lower two aircraft.

[Maverick]

Looking good PD7.

The only time I've heard of "Blake et Mortimer" was when I first saw the Espadon on the Sharkit site and in JC Carbonel's Modelstories.

Mav

[Archibald]

Hello everybody!!

As I said in my return message, I had a few projects before I left the forum for few months. One of those projects was an alternate histrory and some profiles based on E.P. Jacob comics: Blake and Mortimer.
Particulary, I was interested in imagining the follow on of the Espadon/Swordfish aircraft.

Here is a preview of the profiles.



Coming soon in the "Profiles and CGs" forums, bigger profiles of each aircrafts and backstory.


Hope you'll enjoy the drawings, and I really want to know your opinion about the subjects. How many of you know Blake & Mortimer comics? Are they famous out of France?

Well, I'm waiting for your comments!

 
THIS promise much...    

[Hobbes]

The second one looks a bit like a manned version of Blue Steel...

[ChrisYoung]

Yes yes yes !!!

That's great PolluxDeltaSeven. I've always loved Jacob's comics, and "Le secret de l'Espadon" is in my opinion the best one. I really long for the backstory of your profiles.

Si je peux juste me permettre un conseil, essaie de garde au moins sur certains le dièdre positif qui fait toute l'élégance de l'original.    

[Rafael]

Those are wonderful subjects, PD7!!!

Worthy of continuing their development.

Rafa

[ysi_maniac]

Absolutely cool stuff.      
Please continue.

[Sisko]

Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! B)

Do you have any top veiws etc.

Know of the comic but it was never available here in OZ

[Archibald]

Ok, for those not familiar with Blake and Mortimer, here's a short resume...

We are in a -strange- ATL, circa 1948, 3-years after the end of WWII.

Let's suppose that cold-war is fight between free-world (Western block) but its adversary is an "asian" block
(nasty "yellow men", Remember Pearl Harbor...E.P. Jacobs wrote this in 1946...)

Well, nasty emperor Basam-Damdu from Lhasa (Tibet) launch a huge world-scale attack.
And... he size control of the whole planet in just one night   , using all weapons available (waves of V1-like cruise missiles, nukes, paratroopers)

But Philip Mortimer and Francis Blake have THE lethal weapon to repeal such attack, dubbed the Espadon (Swordfish).
This is an oustanding supersonic machine, armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. In fact its a cross between a submarine and a supersonic jet fighter, it take off from under the ocean surface!

WWIII break out  while the first prototype is on its jigs. The plant and prototype (located in England) are destroyed just as "Yellow men" paratroopers assault it.

Blake and Mortimer flee on a superb jet bomber ( a cross between a Canberra and a Comet   ) call "the golden rocket"

Their target : a secret basis on the Ormuz Straight, near Iran.
Their aim : building a bunch of Espadons to smash those nasty "yellow men"

Alas, Basam fighters ("stratosferic sharks") shot down the Golden rocket near Turkey.  

Blake and Mortimer survive the crash and head to the secret basis. After many adventures, they came close to their secret base... but Mortimer realise that he has lost drawings of the espadon. He find them, but is taken prisonier and jailed in Karachi.
Blake and Mortimer worst ennemy, evil colonel Olrik (the villain of the saga!) has teamed with the "yellow men" and torture Mortimer so that he give him Espadon drawings.

In the end, a daring rescue of Mortimer is organized by an Kamov-like helicopter   opearating from a sub. After barely escaping destruction by the "Yellow" fleet (and survived by hidding below the Ajax battlecruiser wreck)  the sub came back safely to the Ormuz secret base.

Last part of the story deal with the battle of Ormuz straight.

In fact Olrik manage to enter the secret base by dissimulating as a war prisonier. Once there he start devastating the base by spreading explosives devices everywhere, destroying main power spplies.  He is discovered by Mortimer, but managed to escape... and tell  Yellow men the exact location of the Ormuz straight basis.

A fierce, bloody battle start between the "yellow" fleet (which use all means, including toxic gases) and defenders of the base.
Situation become desesperate, but in the end first two Espadon are completed, just in time, launched, and smash the "Yellow fleet" to bits.

Later a dozen of Espadon flew to Lhasa and incinerate Basam Damdu with a nuclear weapon... end of the game.

A bleak story...  



The Espadon is the first profile, on top of the page  

[B777LR]

give us another story archie!

[Mossie]

Sharkit does a kit of the Espadon and a 'Golden Comet', a kit inspired by the Golden Rocket & closely resembling it.   I was really intrigued by these kits when I saw them on Renard's pages, before this I'd never heard of Blake & Mortimer.  I thought of getting hold of some Blake & Mortimer comic books, but I don't think you can find them in English.  Seems to be Tin-Tin mixed with Biggles!
Espadon
Golden Comet

I'm looking forward to the profiles & backstories Pollux!

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Si je peux juste me permettre un conseil, essaie de garde au moins sur certains le dièdre positif qui fait toute l'élégance de l'original.

I agree.
I tried to put  "up-looking" wings on the second profiles, but it just don't look very good.
It looked to soft and not enough "warrior" with that.
So, I decided to have down-looking wings and later delta wings on my Swordfish bombers (and the Tigershark fighter )

I think that the typical wing of the original Espadon looks good on a thin plane! My own profiles, as they are mostly bombers or heavy interceptors, are just too big to look elegant with the Espadon wing. That's why I chose to draw delta wings.

But well, for the last two planes, I chose to put up-looking wing tips as a reference to the original Espadon's wing.



@Sisko: I'm sorry, but I do not planed any top view drawings of the planes. but well, who  knows, if i have time, I'll probably draw one or two of them with top view.



Thanks all of you for your comments, and to Archie for telling everybody the story of the first Espadon (i admit I didn't remember myself all the details!   )


Next step, I have to put the markings on them and then post all the planes in the "Profiles" section of the forum!!


See you there as soon as possible!!

[Archibald]

give us another story archie!

E.P Jacobs was an imaginative guy  
He has a fear of invasions, Blake and Mortimer has a long tradition of invasions and invaders...

Sharkit does a kit of the Espadon and a 'Golden Comet', a kit inspired by the Golden Rocket & closely resembling it. I was really intrigued by these kits when I saw them on Renard's pages, before this I'd never heard of Blake & Mortimer. I thought of getting hold of some Blake & Mortimer comic books, but I don't think you can find them in English. Seems to be Tin-Tin mixed with Biggles!

In fact Jacobs worked with Hergé, and historians even think that Hergé inspiration when drawing Cpt Haddock  lied in Jacobs arrival in the 40's...

I have to build an Espadon one day... really an easy thing to build from paper  and cardboard (this will please Rafa, yum!)

Sharkit is cool in the sense that its catalogue is a mix of sci-fi, projects, rocketry...
He even made a kit of the Lockheed L-133 (first jet-powered Lockheed fighter of 1942!)