Wallpapers Wednesday : Paolo Parente’s Dust

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, 9:30 amRoys

Wallpaper from the board game Dust with artwork from Paolo Parente. This game for two to six players is currently published by Fantasy Flight Games, who seem to be publishing a host of cool board games and RPGs - remember Operation Tannhauser?

The above wallpaper features the very delectable Sino Soviet Special Forces captain Koshka. The pose and art style really reminds me of the colourful noseart (usually of the female form) adorning American bombers during WWII, epsecially in the European Theater of Operations. Here’s a photo of one excellent example - American Beauty - a B-17G of the 834th Bomb Squadron/486th Bomb Group (3rd Air Division / 8th Air Force).

There’s also an illustration of this exact bomber by the aviation artist Mark Styling if you’re interested.

Dust is not merely the name of just a board game : it’s going to be a complete alernate history universe with a graphic novel tie-in with 12 Gauge Comics as well as merchandise planned around the Dust name. The 12 Gauge Comics site also offers a similiar wallpaper of the pink haired Captain with a plain white background along with previews of the cover art for Dust #1 and Dust #2.