Nose Art Pen – B17 Flying Fortress

[Fireengines]

This is a pen I turned using WWII nose art from the Nine-O-Nine, "The Ragged Irregulars". They flew 140 missions without loss of life, despite 600 holes from flak and enemy fighters accumulated by this B-17 Flying Fortress. Nine-O-Nine, S/N 42-31909 - from which her name was derived - was based at Bassingborne, England, 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Squadron (8th Air Force). I tried to place some of the bullet holes in the pen but it did not come out well.

The acrylic blank is from Exotic Blanks and is called Metallic Silver.

 

[BSea]

Very cool idea. Do you think you could get a close up of the cap showing the artwork?

 

[walshjp17]

Very nice and a great tribute to some really stalwart airmen. And the blank is fantastic -- it really has a metallic ring to it.

 

[turncrazy43]

Great job, great look.

 

[bob svoboda]

Super. Love it!

 

[alphageek]

Nice job - the only thing that I would change (and this is purely my personal preference) is that I would rotate the decal 90 degrees so it would look nice laying on a desk (treat the finial as the "nose").

 

[Fireengines]

I agree about the rotation. I am looking for better quality graphics too.

 

[tim self]

You beat me to it! I've been working on getting the art the right size and it is so cool.

 

[PaulDoug]

Very nice pen. Beautiful blank. Now to expand on the idea, I would turn the nose art and do a pen in the old army olive drab, or brown whatever the color was called in that era. Not at all sure how or where you would get such a colored blank. Course it would not be a pretty of a pen.

 

[MikeL]

A great pen and an awesome idea!