Tom Tullis is currently self employed as a freelance aviation artist, researcher and author, producing illustrations for book publishers around the world and precision scale decal sheets for model kits. He has authored four books and several articles on aircraft camouflage and markings, and has a reputation as one of the world’s leading authorities on camouflage and tactical markings of World War II aircraft. Tom is the official profile artist for the National Aviation Hall of Fame and produces a series of limited edition profile lithographs for that organization. In the last ten years, Tom’s artwork has appeared in over 75 books and several magazines. His aviation profiles clearly exhibit a technical accuracy and realism rarely seen today. Each aircraft is painstakingly researched for technical accuracy and historical authenticity, with much of his knowledge of 1940's aircraft construction techniques garnered from first hand accounts from the men who built these machines and those restoring those same machines today. His extensive list of clients includes Classic Publications, Cutting Edge Decals, Eagle Editions, EagleCals, Experten Publications, Exxon/Mobil Corp., Fine Scale Modeler Magazine, Hikoki Publications, Kommodeur Decals, Meteor Productions, Monogram Publications, the National Aviation Hall of Fame and Osprey Publications. Tom currently lives in Ohio with his wife Kathleen and son James.


Endorsements:

"The amount of detail that Tom Tullis puts into his profile drawings are not unlike the accuracy expected in the finest museum aircraft restoration. I can relate to the care he places in duplicating rivet patterns, sizes and shapes of markings, to the careful matching to original colors. Tullis is certainly to be regarded among the best in his field of technical illustrations because of this unwavering attention to the slightest detail.”

Robert C. Mikesh
Former Senior Curator
National Air and Space Museum


“Tom gets it all done in his aircraft paintings: nuts, bolts, colors and numbers. There is no guesswork about it. As I always say, right is right, and wrong is wrong. There is no between!”

General Joseph J. Foss
USMC pilot and Governor of South Dakota


"...one of the best P-40 (illustrations) I’ve seen.”

Major General Charles Bond
1st Pursuit Group, AVG Flying Tigers


"When I saw Tom Tullis’ painting of "Yellow 11" for the first time, I was stunned. How he captured the subtleties of this beautiful Bf 109 I do not know. I do know it takes me back to 8 April 1944 when the aircraft caught fire right after take off and I was almost killed. Unfortunately this beautiful machine was lost. But, now it makes me happy to gaze on this beautiful profile."

Gerhard Kroll, former Luftwaffe pilot


"Tom Tullis has beautifully depicted all the fine details of my "Yellow 5", Bf 109 G-10 that I flew for the last time on 4 May 1945. The skill and research shown by the artist is phenomenal. He is to be congratulated."

Horst Petzschler, former Luftwaffe pilot