Faction Portrait GOLD MINE!

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/time/21

...Or any page from when they started running covers in color in the late '30s to when they stopped framing the painting in a box in the middle of the cover sometime in the '50s. The level of realism varies from cover to cover, but some of them are perfect.

-Especially if you're doing a WWII mod. The 40's were the golden age for the portrait covers, and they featured every general you ever heard of, and lots you ain't- also kings, presidents -leaders by the bushel looking important- and celebrities.

I just discovered this site yesterday, and I've already used one in a faction .pcx and am using another tomrrow.

[Darsnan]

I looked thru several pages, and there really are some good pics there!

Some of the ones that jump out at me are Nehru, Cornell (Gaian), Morgenthau (a natural Morganite pic if I ever saw one!), Fleming (Uni), and Marian Anderson (another possible Gaian).

If you want I can look thru further this evening and give some feedback as to pics I think would look good, or you can pick and choose as you wish, and we can go from there.

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Guidance is good. I reserve the right to reject pictures if I think they'll need too much work, but have at me.

If you wanted to provide a list with which page which pick is on, that would be great.

My google fu gets tired. I was really glad to spot Chiang Kia-shak and Tse-veng Soong. I'd been wondering how to search "Chinese guy". I haven't thought beyond that at all, So your input would certainly ad hours to my life.

[Darsnan]

Guidance is good. I reserve the right to reject pictures if I think they'll need too much work, but have at me.

If you wanted to provide a list with which page which pick is on, that would be great.

I've looked over about ten pages at the website, and the following are the pics that jump out at me:

Page 18
Kaufman
Sandborg

Page 21
Nehru
Cornell
Morgenthau (Morganite)
Pius 12th
Runstedt

Page 22
Gargani

Page 23
Runstedt
Fleming (Uni)

Page 24
Dempsey (PK)

Page 25
Patel (PK)

Page 26
Cripps
Kerr (Gaian)
Ball (Drone)
Togliatti (Uni)

Page 27
Hubble (Uni)
Hussein (PK)
Simmons (Gaian)
Ben-Gurien (Uni)

I'd say just paste the faces you like over an existing factional leaderhead photo, and then I can fill in any factional text changes from there (Hubble immediately comes to mind for the Uni's, especially if I can link the "what goes up better doggon well stay up" quote to him). Or if you've got some other leadhead photos feel free to add them as well.
I have to go OOT this coming weekend, but I should have something in place by the following weekend as far as EotB is concerned. FYI.

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[Illuminatus]

Morgenthau (a natural Morganite pic if I ever saw one!)

Gee, it's a subtle one.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Eh, you're right, of course, but be sure to check out what I did with it.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

A painter's site that, unusually, doesn't have make you jump through hoops to copy the pictures, and I saw no watermarks. Mr. Greene paints with the right degree of realism.

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/portraits-public.htm

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/portraits-private.htm

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/auction.htm

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/subway.htm

The first is another great source for old white guys in suits, though I saved the portrait of Elenor Roosevelt. I think the second is the most useful- regular folk, many of whom aren't wearing anything that screams "Now! Today! 2009!" The auction page has tons of good heads in every shot. The last has several nice shots of women and if I ever do another alternate Drones, I'm going to consider the gentleman painted in profile down in the corner.

No hippies, though...

[Darsnan]

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/portraits-private.htm ...

The political analyst down at the bottom of this page is quite good IMO.

The last has several nice shots of women and if I ever do another alternate Drones, I'm going to consider the gentleman painted in profile down in the corner..

I'm not seeing that. The last link has a bunch of subway paintings down at the bottom.

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

The political analyst down at the bottom of this page is quite good IMO.

Oh, for sure. Some sort of uniform that doesn't look like any sort I've ever seen, the shaved head, the vaguely ethnic look- we have to use him somewhere. I didn't mention every shot I'd saved, but this is one of them.

...If we ever need a little girl, Emily at the bottom is very promising. I saved the brother in black, too.

I'm not seeing that. The last link has a bunch of subway paintings down at the bottom.

Yep, and several have people in them. I kinda love the mosaic-type-tile background, too. Crop some of these so it doesn't say "Times Square", or whatever, behind them, and ...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

And look at this. A detail from something on the auction page at 100%, cropped and ready to scan line and drop in to the appropriate pcx as- is.

Nothing about it that says not-the-future.

[MysticWind]

Nice, that site is still up.