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50's-60's sci-fi chicks
A friend of mine is re-designing an old project in the style of 'Barbarella' and pulp sci-fi covers from the 1950's (all scantily clad girls in skin-tight spacesuits with fishbowl-helmets). Anyone seen any good sites for ref pics?? -
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Couldn´t resist, have to post these links, they are so hot: http://www.jamesart.com/venus.html http://www.thepinupfiles.com/images/KBS-Bawidamann-OneRudeRide-LG.jpg http://www.thepinupfiles.com/images/KBS-Bawidamann-SpaceGirl-LG.jpg -
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also space channel 5 part 2 -
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Suggest to your friend that he do Image searches using the names of popular science fiction magazines from the era ... like Astounding Science Fiction, or Amazing Science Fiction, etc. Also look up the work of leading artists from the period ... Kelly Freas is a good starting point. -
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http://www.geocities.com/buckrogers_nz/wallpapers.html?20074 Buck Rogers (!) was the first thing that sprang to mind, there's a few pics of that woman who was the pilot in the spandex suit and big helmet, might be a start. -
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Haha, nice one Honolulu_Ninja. Good doggie!! We found some more ref too, including these: http://www.darkrising.co.uk/Nancy.htm http://www.jamesart.com/Photos/p143Averella.html http://www.jamesart.com/Photos/pSpaceCadet.html Those last two are from 'www.jamesart.com' who also did the 'Agent Venus' figure Husch linked to.… -
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Gmanx: Haha, that description fits like a glove to one of the character i'm working on right now. I don't have the character on this computer. Although, here's her sidekick Sputnik, the spacedoggie! -
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Many thanks to everyone. Hopefully someday the friend in question will sign up here at polycount, and post what he does with these refs. In the meantime - thanks again!! -
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I had these two in my ref bookmarks, glad to see they are still up. - Lots of pulp covers. http://www.oldsfbooks.com/pulpgal.html - Pulp Pin-Ups http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/ As suggested try tracking down a few Pulp artists like; - Virgil Finlay Worked on Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, pretty well know for drawing…
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