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[Mus51]

Nice work there Fester! Gotta love them details!

[Saxman]

As pretty as Il-2's graphics are, it's a crying shame the skinners don't do a better job with their schemes.

Minor detail on that P-39 with the size and positioning of the S/N on the tail, but those little details are the ones that REALLY make a skin, especially when there's plenty of photographic images to work with (having done the Black Sheep's 17883 and 17740 for AH, I HATE the Il-2 skinning community's work for those two birds. Too clean, not faded enough, missing overspray areas, no old-style roundel on 17740's port wing...).

[lyric1]

Hate to pull this thread back to life how ever since I started it it seems to make sense to put it in here than start another thread.

I was going through a Russian site to look at their latest updates & this P-39Q caught my eye. It is not that fancy & it is a rather simple design I do like it though. 


Any ways I thought I would throw it out there since it is a fairly recent discovery by the Russian site & most likely not seen by to many in the rest of the world.

It was flown by Lt. Fyodor Archipenko of the 129Th Guards IAP in 1944. He had 42 kills to his name based off the English translation.

You will have to search for his name to view the site as it will not give me a direct link & you may have to use a translator for English.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fairaces.narod.ru%2Findex.html