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Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo — Kraft · Red — Portrait

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Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo Blueprint Wall Art

$99 CAD

Open production · Made after your order

Free shipping — Canada only

A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.

  • ✓Made-to-order
  • ✓Free shipping — Canada only
  • ✓14-day returns

We'll hand your exact text to the operator before plotting — 40 characters max.

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your piece is plotted after you order.

A technical plan of the Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo, plotted pen to paper, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink, one pass at a time. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.

The plan of the F2A-1 exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy someone can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, and under what serial number.

The Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo was the U.S. Navy's first monoplane fighter, beating the Grumman F4F Wildcat in the competition that decided it. Only 11 were ever delivered to the Navy before the production run was diverted elsewhere. Stripped-down export versions of the same airframe went on to fly for Finland, where pilots compiled one of the most lopsided kill ratios of the Second World War. This blueprint captures the aircraft as it first flew: a stubby carrier fighter with a barrel-shaped fuselage and a single Wright Cyclone radial up front.

At a Glance

  • ◆35-foot wingspan
  • ◆5,043 lb gross weight
  • ◆Only 11 delivered to Navy
  • ◆Beat the Grumman F4F Wildcat
  • ◆950-hp Wright Cyclone engine
  • ◆32:1 kill ratio in Finland

Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.

Specifications

codeink@robot:~$ ./specs --piece brewster-f2a-1-buffalo

> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]

> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll

> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]

> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting

> PLOT TIME: ~1–1.5 h of machine drawing time

> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order

> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada

What the robot does, what a person does

The robot

  • ◆runs the file
  • ◆draws
  • ◆lays down ink
  • ◆repeats without tiring

A person

  • ◆picks the aircraft
  • ◆designs the linework
  • ◆decides which lines disappear
  • ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
  • ◆watches the hours
  • ◆signs, numbers, packs

Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.

Included

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Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost

Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.

Hidden signature

The CodeInk signature glowing under UV light on the back of a plotted piece

Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.

A signature only UV light reveals

On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.

“A carrier fighter that lost its war at home and won someone else's — that contradiction is what made me want to draw it. The robot just runs the file. I picked which story to tell.”

— Carlos, CodeInk.art, Québec

Open production, no duplicates

Every F2A-1 is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down differently each pass, ink density shifts, and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.

PERFECTLY imperfect.

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