So I was thanking  Air Winters for a fav. One thing let to another and I'm designing a character for him.
To be more specific, we were just talking about aeromorph designs and how I wanted to keep drawing this type of stuff. He gave me a challenge of sorts: take bits of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress and make an aeromorph hybrid.

How could I refuse such a challenge?

Aside from some design elements (turret styles, machine gun barrel location, feet/landing gear design, a tail and the turret man-bun), with some very helpful sketches from his part, the rest was carte blanche.

Oh, and it had to be a dude. Which was a first.
Other firsts include the use of pre-jet age designs (I knew those propellers would cause me grief) and design elements more commonly found in the aeromorph community, like the the use of feet/landing gear and a traditional tail.
The face is B-17, but everything else is B-29. His abdomen's design is based on the B-29's double bomb bays. Whatever size scale  Air Winters has in mind for the guy, he'll be big!

While listening to music (Culture Beat - Inside Out) I discovered that piece of this size would take me about 1.25 hours to ink. For now, anyways.

The best part was learning a bit on these planes.