| Welcome To Fly Girl Painter! I love to paint anything with wings or rotors! |
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| About Fly Girl Painter.. I have always been into art, as far back as when my artist grandmother gave me some paints and a canvas and asked me to "paint". I used to watch her create the most beautiful landscapes, flowers, watermills, just about anything. She also made hooked rugs and even dyed her own wool. |
| I joined the Air Force after high school because I loved airplanes! I loved every day of my career, the travel the flying, the excitement of it all! And while serving my country. I had started painting nose arts on aircraft earlier in my career, hangar doors, ammo boxes, tool boxes etc,, but it wasn't until I was stationed at Castle AFB in central Ca. in 1990, that I realized my true calling. Everyday on my way to work I would pass the air museum and I would look out to those old planes and think "gee, someone should paint them". and wouldn't that be cool." In 1994 before retiring I was asked to assist the museum before base closure (1995) and supervise the restoration efforts there. I was thrilled. I jumped right in and the first plane I really learned to paint was a B-17 bomber! By the time I left Castle in 1997, I had helped restore several aircraft, including the mighty B-52 and my favorite F-4E Thunderbird. I later I moved to Riverside and worked at the March Air Museum, where I supervised and restored over 35 aircraft. In 2005 I joined the Wings and Rotors Air Museum in Murrieta where I work today and love every minute of it. It was in 1999 when I painted my first U.S. Navy H-60 Seahawk, donating my time, unaware of what it would lead to. I still paint them today and this site is primarily about them. |
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| Fly Girl Painter Assistants Of course I can't do all the work myself. It is alot of work to prep and paint a Seahawk. My husband Scott helps me on every helicopter, he is the master at prepping the top tail rotor assembly and helping to me to clean the black soot that collects from the exhaust. He also is another set of eyes making sure everything "looks good" before I paint it. Also I have Roxane Bond. She is also an artist and has helped me on many tails. Roxane and I went to Guam in Aug 08 together to paint the H-60 for HSC-25. Roxane ia also a licensed A&P mechanic! You go girl! We work together at Wings and Rotors Air Museum. |
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| To See the Seahawks CLICK HERE!! |
| How does Fly Girl Painter work?? For the U.S. Navy or other military org- The labor to do the painting is FREE. Normally the unit supplies the paint, materials, billeting on base and transportation (where applicable) For more details please call me or email me! Shayne@flygirlpainter.com or 951-662-5653 |
| It is in this work that we pay tribute to the U.S. Navy and our way of saying "thanks for your service." If we can help the morale in a unit with a tail they are proud of, without the high cost, then we are proud as well. It is a true honor for us to be able to do this. Thank you!! |
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| 2010 Wings and Rotors calendars!! Features our UH-1B Huey!! |
![]() US Navy Aircraft by "Flygirlpainter" by flygirlpainter Make your own full color calendars online at zazzle |
| COOL 2010 CALENDARS!! FEATURING ALL THE NAVY AIRCRAFT ON THIS SITE AND THE WINGS AND ROTORS AIR MUSEUM |
| From each calendar sold, 15% will come back to a fund used to offset expenses to paint future Navy aircraft! |