super nice image,

Beautiful, love it... Nice colors and composition. Good luck!

Lovely entry. The integration and colors are well done.A lovely addition is the lights on the wing tips.

Excellent work, for me your best!! Great colors and drama!!

This is a Great image don't get me wrong, But this contest is not about that. To me it looks like a 60s airline magazine ad. looks painted and not realistic. Also the contrails don't come out the engine they tend to form a ways back from them as the engines exhaust cools. It is still a beautiful image.

IRONCOW I don’t know whether to slap ya or shake your hand. Thank you for the compliment about this being a “Great” image and looking like a painting. I wish I could paint well enough to get some work as an ad designer…lol. As for as it looking like 60’s airliner ad, wow thanks but the Boeing 787 did not take flight until December 2009. In the 1960’s an aircraft this size would have had 4 engines.
You are partially right about the contrails, MOST OF THE TIME; the E.G.T. (exhaust gas temp.) will prevent the ice from forming immediately. Believe me though, I have seen times above 40,000 ft (12200 m) the outside air temperature being near -70F (-56c) and the air pressure below 5 inches Hg with an engine not running at peak efficiency or a low E.G.T.. Ice will start forming before the trailing edge of the flap track fairings especially during high humidity conditions. Please just chalk my painterly contrails and unrealistic picture up to “artistic liberty” if you will. Thanks again.

Great mood & color...GL author.

wow. very nice! good luck!

Love this drawing it is the best and i think u should win

Congrats!

Congrats! Told ya it was a good 'un!

Congrats Loyd looks great

Congrats Loyd!!

Congrats Loyd...!!!!

Nice one!

Pappy Boyington would approve.

Nice. Always liked those gull wings Good job

CMYK46 now you're talking, Pappy was my hero back in the day when Baa Baa Black Sheep was on the TV (when television was television...lol)

Kyricom yep those F4U Corsairs were cool airplanes alright, one of my WWII era fav's; them and the P-47 Thunderbolt ( The Jug)

Ahh... der Gabelschwanz-Teufel (Forked Tailed Devil) those were definitely badass too.Kelly Johnson was definitely ahead of his time when him and Hall Hibbard conceived the idea. The Lightning opened a new line of aeronautical engineering study, thats when High-speed compressibility problems became a factor.

Very realistic job.

Believable image and nicely done!

Very cool image prop look a wee bit funny

Congrats again Loyd!!

One more time....congrats.!

Nice work!

Your choice of the misty background is perfect for this scene.

Congrats Bob!!

Congrats my friend....!

You might want to fix or remove the reversed lettering on the ships.

Image is good but the shadows need some work. They are all wrong !

I would have to type so much to say all that is wrong Im sorry. The rocket and the zeppelin seem to have light from different sources and almost no shadows? the rocks to the back left have light from the top casting almost no shadow, yet the rocket ship has a massive long shadow? the rock to the bottom right is casting in between ? and the moon in the back has light coming from behind the camera so making every shadow in the image wrong ? They are all wrong !

Nice work, conjures up Buck Rogers for me!

I think you did a good job. The shadows look fine for me, the image overall looks real nice. GL....!