VNAF Cessna O-1E Bird Dog

VNAF - Flying by - Sketches

Hi everybody,

I came up with this idea during the New Year celebration. It was so warm and so bright in south California that it reminded me of Vietnam. I remember going to Vung Tau with my family and stayed there a week or two every summer...Some time, a month...Well...good old days!

Perhaps, I should draw about my childhood someday. Well, it is going to be another project then!

I love to draw military planes, but for me, it is very hard. I have to copy all the little details which I know nothing about. I can't ask my Dad because he was in the Infantry not the Air Force. So, I surely missed a lot of details and I hope you all will forgive me, especially those of you who are VNAF Vets.

Thank you and hope you enjoy my artwork. 

Hung

VNAF Pin Up, Rescue Angels

Hi everybody,

Again, I like to draw from my imagination... I made up things that do not exist. So there were no rescue "angels" like you see in this drawing during the Vietnam War. I simply wanted to draw some VNAF pin up girls in an interesting situation that could have happened in real life.
I have just gone through the year of 2014, a year with a lot of challenges in my job, my health and difficulties in my finance... I feel like I have just been rescued by two beautiful "angels", one on each side lifting me up, out of the dark water. Well that is my inspiration for this drawing :)
You might see the mysterious smile that I put on the pilot's face and the trace of patches on the girls' swim suits in an effort to cover up more skin...to keep everything decent on my blog. Am I too conservative? Mr. Duong Tien might say yes :)
Anyway, I hope you all like the drawing.
Thank you for visiting my blog.

Hung

UH 34D Seahorse, VNAF 213 HS, 51st Wing, Da Nang, 1966

Hi everybody,

I actually drew this UH 34 as the back ground for another project, but then I liked it ... so I fixed it up a little bit and created a new drawing of it. This is my first time drawing this kind of helicopter so I must have missed or overdone many things... Hope you all like it ;)

Hung

Clint Eastwood - Old pencil drawing

Last month when I cleaned up my bookcase I found this old pencil drawing I did a long time ago. Before I put it together with other artworks in a new binder, I scanned it for later post. Well, here it is ... Hope you like it.

Hung

VNAF - A-37B - 520th Fighter Squadron - Binh Thuy 1970

  An VNAF A-37B of the 520th Fighter Squadron, 74th Tactical Wing, 4th Air Division at Binh Thuy during 1970. A-37s were well liked by VNAF aircrews for their agility and load carrying capability.
 
Even though I was born in Saigon and grew up in the district of Thu Duc, I spent most of my time after 1975 in Can Tho, a city in the Mekong Delta. Therefore it is nice to do a painting of a plane that used to be stationed in the nearby town of Binh Thuy, my Mom's home town.
  Well, this is the first time I publish a post right on new year day...still sitting in my bed watching the Rose Parade live on TV, a hot cup of coffee...and the temperature outside is 38°F (around 3°C)...such a wonderful feeling. Maybe this is the right way to welcome the Year of 2015 :)
  And to all of you...Happy New Year!!!

Hung

Áo dài sketch

Hi everybody,
This is just a pencil sketch. I don't know if it will be used later or not. Summer is the busiest time of the year for me, so I really have no plan for any drawing. Well, just did this for fun :)
Hung