My object(s) all sublime, which I may achieve in time....
Are twofold.
First, to have a relatively accurate aircraft card for every plane in my collection.
Secondly, to have at least one example of each of the types in the Unofficial Aircraft List, with correct stats.
There are many examples of really professional artwork for unofficial aircraft in various albums. Those by MaxHeadroom, Jager's rescue of some of Max's artwork, Oldguy59's work, Guntruck of course... But the stats on these cards aren't always accurate. Sometimes it was because they used an earlier version of the stats list, before the T,U,V etc decks came out, or where the stats list had a mistake in (it still has at least one...). Some of the oldest ones predate the unofficial aircraft lists, with almost random stats assigned until something better came along.
I have neither the tools nor the skill to equal this artwork. But I can copy a card from one of the albums, check it vs the unofficial stats list, make any necessary corrections, and then save it an an album that has guaranteed correct cards.
One problem I have is giving credit where it's due. I can't really keep track of who did what in the original cards I'm using as a base. Often no correction is needed, it's straight theft. Sometimes the card artwork has minor errors - the tail of a Nieuport 24bis depicted as a Nieuport 24. More often, I have to completely change markings and often cammo to match a plane in my own collection. Rarely, I have to manufacture a card completely from scratch.
So a card may have a base Fokker D.VII originally by MaxHeadroom but redone by Jager, markings cut from one of Oldguy59's Nieuports, resized and changed a bit, cammo lozenge cut and pasted in sections from a bomber by Guntruck, and new stats entirely. Keeping track and annotating each card to give credit on an individual card/component basis would make the project infeasible, so I'm just going to credit each contributor for the album as a whole, if they have no objection.
The album is at http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/album.php?albumid=3984
I'm giving aircraft in my own collection priority, but will be working through alphabetically after that. I'm just not a very good artist.
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