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Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation — Kraft · Red — Portrait

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Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation 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 Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.

The Constellation's silhouette exists in file form everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a single copy you can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, under what number.

The Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation was a stretched, more powerful evolution of the original Constellation, built to compete directly with the Douglas DC-6B on long-haul routes. Instantly recognizable by its dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive triple tail, it entered service with Eastern Air Lines in December 1951 before flying for TWA, Air France, KLM, and Qantas. For much of the 1950s, it was among the fastest and most comfortable ways to cross the Atlantic — before jet airliners made propeller-driven giants like it obsolete.

At a Glance

  • ◆First flew, 1950-1951
  • ◆Entered service, December 1951
  • ◆Fuselage stretched 18 feet
  • ◆Distinctive triple-tail design
  • ◆Flew TWA, Eastern, Air France
  • ◆Pre-jet transatlantic airliner

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 lockheed-l-1049c-super-constellation

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

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

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

> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting

> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order

> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada

What the robot does, what a person does

The robot

  • ◆runs the file
  • ◆traces the line
  • ◆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 plot start to end
  • ◆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 triple tail on a passenger plane looks almost decorative today — as if elegance used to be part of the engineering brief, not an afterthought. Tracing it by hand felt like a way of taking that seriously again.”

— Carlos, CodeInk.art, Québec

Open production, no duplicates

Each plot is made after you order, one at a time. The pen wears slightly with every hour of use, ink density shifts, and no two lines close at exactly the same point — nothing is corrected or hidden.

PERFECTLY imperfect.

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