Author Topic: Oboe. Early 38 color images from above re: panal lines (Read 667 times)

Guppy35 · « **on:** February 11, 2005, 03:11:06 PM »

Two images from Jeff Ethell's "P38 Lightning in World War II Color".

First is a P38E that is fairly new. The camo is still dark etc.

Second is a stateside training unit F or G that looks the worse for wear. Lots of touch up paint etc.

I would imagine the Pac OD/Gray birds somewhere in between with the care given to combat ready birds vs the tropical weather.

I initially went with darker panal lines on Dottie, but ended up lightening them up as it looked better to me both from outside and inside the cockpit looking out.

Dan/Slack

Stang · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2005, 03:19:51 PM »

Yikes someone help those poor birds!

Fruda · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2005, 03:35:05 PM »

Those are nasty.

Rafe35 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2005, 03:51:47 PM »

The first image was over south California in mid-1942 and the second is from Florida in 1943/44 (i think).

oboe · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2005, 04:08:44 PM »

Interesting! Thanks for posting those. Would the correct rule of thumb be then, "Dark camo/color = light panel lines, light camo/nat metal = dk panel lines".

Works for me!

SlapShot · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2005, 05:31:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Stang
Yikes someone help those poor birds!

Them bad boys are work horses ... no time to look pretty and get all spiffied up ... theres a job to do.

Kev367th · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2005, 05:50:12 PM »

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Originally posted by oboe
Interesting! Thanks for posting those. Would the correct rule of thumb be then, "Dark camo/color = light panel lines, light camo/nat metal = dk panel lines".

Works for me!

I've actaully been toning the panel lines down a bit compared to my skins on the old models. Seems to look better, maybe because there is around only half to 2/3rds area compared to the old 2x1024 files. So in theory lines on the new models will look wider, toning them down seems to hide it a little.