I'm looking forward to SOF too, sounds like another great project!

Well, 2nd day, 2nd poster...

What I am liking about these posters is the fact that you all have use your real names. Its about time you got some true recognition for the fine work in machinima you all do.

Ypu're right Gas. Now any day soon, Peter Jackson will be on the phone, lol ;D

3 days, 3 posters, still on track!

I thought I would inform a few as to the subject of this greatly anticapted movie.


Faith, Hope, and Charity

Painting by Alan Mann

One of the most amazing stories from the Second World War is from the defence of Malta. This was a rather desperate situation, and there are plenty of accounts of the heroism of the people, of the sailors who managed to get supplies through to the island, and of the garrison who defended it. Due to the complete incompetence of the civil service and the lack of foresight on the part of the politicians, Malta's air defences were woefully under-strength at the outbreak of the war, and, by the end of 1940, the fighter defences were down to just three Gloster Gladiator fighters.

These three out of date and hopelessly slow fighter planes managed to give a very good account of themselves in battle, being flown by RAF officers whose skill must have been stretched to the limit by the Gladiator's upper high-mounted wing, paltry armament, and slow airspeed when pitched into battle against the faster Aeromacchi and other modern aircraft operated by the Italian Regio Aeronautica.


With Italy's entry into WW II on June 10, 1940, the epic two-and-one-half-year siege of Malta began. Symbolizing the defiant resistance of the people and defenders of that tiny island, the legend of "Faith, Hope, and Charity" grew from a handful of Gloster Sea Gladiators which initially comprised Malta's sole aerial defense. Until the arrival of the modern Hawker Hurricanes, these obsolescent biplanes fought the Regia Aeronautica alone in the skies above Malta. Only six or seven Gladiators were assembled from the shipment of eighteen crated aircraft which had been delivered by the HMS Glorious. Others were utilized for spare parts, and three had been dispatched, still crated, to Egypt. Though hugely outnumbered, the defenders fought on, raising the morale of the citizens of Malta, and denying the Italians mastery of the sky. Suffering from a constant shortage of spare parts, tools and equipment, the devoted ground support crews were never able to keep more than three Gladiators operational at any point in time. Only one of these Gladiators was totally lost in aerial combat, and the sole surviving aircraft was presented to the people of Malta, and today stands in their National War Museum as a proud symbol of courage and endurance. In Stan Stoke's painting, a Sea Gladiator, piloted by Flight Lt. James Pickering.


Painting by Stan Stoke


Faith in the Malta War Museum.
Photo courtesy of Michael Sanderson.

Good info, Gas.

You'll have to wait and see how that all has been made into a screenplay

So, 4 days, 4 posters

Poster 5!