Something Different 15

What’s this?  I’ll get around to identification in a bit. Sistine chapel ceiling?  Sister of Sistine?   For now, everyone knows the genre of “nose art” on aircraft.

Trucks  . . . most likely the owner operator variety . . . sometimes display.

Then there’s official marking with numbers and painted emblems to clearly mark purpose as well as to

bedazzle, make nimtopsical, render too fuddled to head tail or trail . . .

display trophies.

Then there’s this . . . by sea and

by

land.

I prefer the Vallejo inspired above to the Disney knock offs below.

Here she is . . . probably

Steiner built.

Since we can’t really call this nose art, let’s call it bow, stern, or house art.  Send me you favorite examples  . . . from commercial vessels only?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

By the way, Mohawk WPG-78 above was reefed about a year after I took that photo.  Here and here are links to that vessel that now dazzles divers.  I’d love to hear from anyone who’s dived on it.