After being away for a while from the forum, I come back to see my name being slandered as a thief. In no way did I copy any decals from anyone nor offer them for sale from my Fotki site. Anyone who asked for my files was denied access to them and I never profited from any of the artwork I produced, not the Enterprise art nor any of the other files on the site. As for the similarities in the set up. Hogwash. I made a scale drawing of the Hangar walls and using references I found on the net and in various books, placed them in the appropriate positions for my reference when I printed them. I have access to the USS Lexington and made several trips down to Corpus Christi to see her. I made most of my hangar artwork (placard, warnings etc.) from photos I took of her hanger walls and used them to suit my purposes. Since I was also building the CVN65 as a 1980's era carrier, my airwing decals did not correspond to anyone else's art. I am a professional graphic artist so I created vector based art of all my files using photos and other reference material gathered from the US NAVY and other books such as AIRWING ENTERPRISE, etc...
The only reason I removed the files from my Fotki site was due to unreasonable threats and intimidation from someone on this board. Looking back, I shouldn't have taken them down at all. Especially since the offending person has freely admitted using other's templates in the creation of his airwing and carrier decals. See page one of this original thread... As for my artwork of the AIMD and paintings of the Enterprise throughout the years, I had several people send me color images of the paintings which I scanned and imported into my files. Any lines or walkways were taken and created directly from scans of the kit to ensure proper fit of the decals. ALL airwing artwork was originally created to fit the TAMIYA aircraft which I scanned the box art and resized to actual size to use as a layered template. ALL Walkways and markings on the aircraft were created using this method.
This will probably be the last time for me on this board. So those of you who jumped on his bandwagon without knowing or questioning me concerning my methods of doing my artwork can take a long walk off Elevator 4... For those of you who emailed me in the past and asked about my art work, thanks for asking but the files will not ever be released.
If anyone is interested in viewing my process, look me up on FOTKI.
http://public.fotki.com/Obironkenobi/13 ... -cvn-65-u/