550th bomb squadron patch with hedgehog :)

[Flightengineer]

nice patch. here's a vintage
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Thank you! Very intеresting!
I haven't seen it before and I will add it to my database. Does it belong to you? If so, what is its exact size of 5 or 5.5 inches?
I had photos of two other patches with hedgehogs of the 550th squadron and I based my repro on them. They are similar in the main, but there are small differences, perhaps they were drawn even by different people. The patch you posted confirms this again . Some of them were rather primitively painted in fast way like this :




Now I understand that later embroidered version was based exactly on your patch - it repeats almost all the nuances of your hedgehog.



Maybe later, if I don’t lose my desire, I’ll make an exact copy of your version of the patch.

Thanks again.

Hey Dmitry you are an artist ...

Thanks my friend.

 

[Flightengineer]

Here the modern emblem with the hedgehog about which I wrote earlier.

 

[Flightengineer]

@shedonwanna,
It also seems that your patch version is made with stencil. Those that I saw earlier were drawn without using stencils - just painted as usuall.

 

[shedonwanna]

here is another of the same style with a ruler. they appear to be 4 to 4.5 inches. yes, looks like a stencil was used. units and personnel get transferred and variations in patches occur. I paint for active squadrons and over time I get requests to make changes or i'm given an older patch as an example to reproduce.

 

[Flightengineer]

here is another of the same style with a ruler. they appear to be 4 to 4.5 inches. yes, looks like a stencil was used. units and personnel get transferred and variations in patches occur. I paint for active squadrons and over time I get requests to make changes or i'm given an older patch as an example to reproduce.
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Thank you, I have this photo.
I asked about the size of the patch that you published earlier (stenciled).

 

[shedonwanna]

Thank you, I have this photo.
I asked about the size of the patch that you published earlier (stenciled).

i don't own either patch but the image with the ruler indicates a size that was used for this similar design and construction. possibly same artist. the design could have also been a block print that was then finished by hand. the spines may have been painted instead of stenciled or stamped. just adding my opinion on technique based on decades of experience.

 

[Flightengineer]

Thanks, I have similar thoughts.

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

Here's a 550th I did some years ago...…..

 

[Flightengineer]

Your hedgehog looks like the devil

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

Your hedgehog looks like the devil

I made that one for a person who sent me an image just like it to work from, and as you know there were "variations" on this one as well as most any AAF squadron or Group patch ,wasn't my drawing to start with …….

 

[Flightengineer]

I accidentally saw this photo as continuation of the theme of hedgehogs on planes.
433TFS RCAF.

 

[Dany McDonald]

Hey Dimitry,

433 tactical fighter squadron is base in my hometown where I grew. Lots of CF-5 in my memory, now CF-18's. It depicts a porcupine.
Nice patch, have you done more?

Qui s'y frotte s'y pique!

Thank you for sharing.

D

 

[Flightengineer]

Hey Dimitry,

433 tactical fighter squadron is base in my hometown where I grew. Lots of CF-5 in my memory, now CF-18's. It depicts a porcupine.
Nice patch, have you done more?

Qui s'y frotte s'y pique!

Thank you for sharing.

D

Hi Dany,
Wow, I didn't know it was a porcupine! I just saw a photo of this СF-18 tail and decided to share this photo here, in the old thread about my patch with a hedgehog.

Yes, I make patches from time to time. I didn't made with a hedgehog anymore, but there are others.
Almost all of them are here https://www.instagram.com/flightpatches/

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

Yes , I've done all sorts of WW-2 aviation unit patches, and all branches of service of same types, USAAF/USN/USMC, see my facebook page , https://www.facebook.com/groups/310104192517699/

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

Yes , I've done all sorts of WW-2 aviation unit patches, and all branches of service of same types, USAAF/USN/USMC, see my facebook page , https://www.facebook.com/groups/310104192517699/

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[Flightengineer]

hm

 

[ausreenactor]

A little background ... I always like hedgehogs. Cute smart animal



I am also not big fan of bomber aviation (transport or fighter more), although I respect these fearless guys, of course. But in this case it all came together. Hedgehogs ... bombers

Sometimes I draw patches, this is one of my hobbies. It usually takes an hour on one day off, then an hour on another, and so on until I finally finish the work (sometimes I manage to be at home for a week, but not often).
Not long ago, I found some interesting pics a rather rare WW2 patch belonged to AAF 550th Bomb Squadron.
The patch was not so famous and mass and 550th usually used the other patch (beast with a bomb in fangs). But there was this one, with a hedgehog walking on the clouds and carrying a bomb. The red color of the bomb is not accidental, it is the color code of this squadron.
Only a few originals survived , they were a little different from each other as were all the hand-drawn patches of those years.
I studyied them and did this repro on leather.

Today finished. Here is such a hedgehog (5 inches).

Briefly about this unit during WW2.
550th Bomb Squadron (heavy), 385th Bomb Group, flew B-17s, were in Europe in UK as part 8 AF in 1942-45.

I don't know, maybe one day this hedgehog will find home on one of my flight jackets

Another patch 'Master'. Great work.

 

[ausreenactor]

hm

HM...Hijack much?

Yeah nah..

 

[Flightengineer]

HM...Hijack much?

Yeah nah..

I'm for world peace, but don't like it when someone answers a question asked to me personally

 

[Flightengineer]

Yesterday's made version on canvas for one my flight jacket, based on the photo of the original courtesy of @shedonwanna, will be aged.