1. Notes: 16 / 1 month ago  from swegener
    swegener: Felt compelled to do a cut-away showing a bit of the internal workings of the She Devil’s jet packs. Normally all the fans would be in line with one another, but this design uses a differential joint, rather than just ducting, to redirect the thrust. In reality this would probably put unimaginable stresses on the fan system, but hey, this is comics and I wanted that little swoop. The basic design however is modeled after a real turbofan engine. I always like a little reality in my fantasy. The name comes curtest of my wife, @doeflow11 I also felt like doodling a few submachine guns. Ernie Pyle, writing about the U.S. army in Africa in 1943, referred to a soldier’s job as “the craft of killing”. The idea of war being treated as a trade, rather than as some romantic and heroic thing, really struck me. The cheap stamped steel and relative simplicity of what would be mass produced during and shortly after WWII is very blunt and work(wo)manlike, and stands in sharp contrast to pre-war guns like the complex and expensive to manufacture Thompson submachine gun.  This idea of a weapon as a tool (like a hammer) calls back to images of Rosie The Riveter, and I think it’s something that works well with the She Devils.

    swegener:

    Felt compelled to do a cut-away showing a bit of the internal workings of the She Devil’s jet packs. Normally all the fans would be in line with one another, but this design uses a differential joint, rather than just ducting, to redirect the thrust.

    In reality this would probably put unimaginable stresses on the fan system, but hey, this is comics and I wanted that little swoop. The basic design however is modeled after a real turbofan engine. I always like a little reality in my fantasy.

    The name comes curtest of my wife, @doeflow11

    I also felt like doodling a few submachine guns. Ernie Pyle, writing about the U.S. army in Africa in 1943, referred to a soldier’s job as “the craft of killing”. The idea of war being treated as a trade, rather than as some romantic and heroic thing, really struck me. The cheap stamped steel and relative simplicity of what would be mass produced during and shortly after WWII is very blunt and work(wo)manlike, and stands in sharp contrast to pre-war guns like the complex and expensive to manufacture Thompson submachine gun. 

    This idea of a weapon as a tool (like a hammer) calls back to images of Rosie The Riveter, and I think it’s something that works well with the She Devils.

     

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    1. antoniotyler reblogged this from swegener and added:
      that WW2 soldier...killing, because really, with all the mechanization, that
    2. michaelk42 reblogged this from swegener
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