Awesome. It’s a shame the US Air Force chose a few years ago to ban nose art. This would be wonderful!

Awww... I want you so badly! lol
Even things do get along. ^^

Rosey is just so perfect.

Ah yes a glorious thunderbolt

Muddypaws said:
Awesome. It’s a shame the US Air Force chose a few years ago to ban nose art. This would be wonderful!

"Nose art" :) not "tail/middle-of-the-plane art" ;) There is still hope

muddypaws said:
Awesome. It’s a shame the US Air Force chose a few years ago to ban nose art. This would be wonderful!

And now I've read an article all about aircraft nose art. Maybe adding a patriotic theme to it would help get approval.

Greetings, (Army) Sargent!!!!

wolfoxuwu said:
Ah yes a glorious thunderbolt

The P-40? I’m leaning more towards the P-51 Mustang myself....

wolfoxuwu said:
Ah yes a glorious thunderbolt

I don't think it's supposed to be any specific plane. The radial engine and 4-bladed prop barely visible on the left do eliminate some options, but the rest of what's visible doesn't match up to anything I can recall. The wing is the wrong shape for a T-bolt, and it looks like the fuselage just forward of the cockpit has a slight top bulge to it, which the T-bolt doesn't have.

stampede212 said:
The P-40? I’m leaning more towards the P-51 Mustang myself....

imagoober said:
I don't think it's supposed to be any specific plane. The radial engine and 4-bladed prop barely visible on the left do eliminate some options, but the rest of what's visible doesn't match up to anything I can recall. The wing is the wrong shape for a T-bolt, and it looks like the fuselage just forward of the cockpit has a slight top bulge to it, which the T-bolt doesn't have.

Looks like a P-47 to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Between the shape of the fuselage she's sitting on, the shape of the cockpit, the shape of the wings, the location and layout of the .50's, and the radial/4-propped engine.

Being a WW-II fanatic and Hentai lover since BEFORE anime was mainstream.. Here's what I see:
It's 'Tokyo-Rose' !! :D She defected to the allies at the end of the war! This photo was the 1st Publicity shot taken at the airfield where she landed a commandeered Mitsubishi A6M 'Zero'.

The artist doesn't seem to be trying to model the plane after anything specific; more of any Idea. Tt's just a prop for the Art. As such, one must see it through that Lens.

Thus: the Colour Scheme, the Rose and the general shape of the craft (especially cockpit) all 'feel' like the A6M Zero.
The weapons package looks like the iconic 4x4 .50-Cal belt-fed MGs. Which makes sense, it's often what you see in the many snippets of footage where fighters are diving down onto their adversaries.

(Edit: Also, She's a Canine, a Fox IMO. So the Japanese Kitsune-thing helps tie this together! Yeah, i see that she's an established character. ;) I still like my idea better. I created all this 'in a vacuum' meaning i know nothing outside the image itself)

Omg, I know a pilot who's called rose if I remember correctly.
She flys a stunt bi-plane in Washington

We need more World War 2 2kinds pin up girls
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It is absolutely a P-47 Thunderbolt - however, it appears to be fairly stylized. The quad machine guns in that exact place on the wing, the radial engine, and the shapes of the fuselage, wing, and cockpit all match.
It does appear to be fairly stylized, and there are some inaccuracies - the wing might be attached a little high. I can attribute this to it being not the focus of the picture. But that combination of eight machine guns with that slope, with a radial engine, and those other shapes makes it clear at least to me that it's a P-47.

I'm not sure about the uniform.

War thunder planes be like

I didn't think I'd find Mark's brother's art without having to search for it, this just kinda showed up in another post's comments and I was surprised to see who it was by lol.