P-38L homework help

[Guppy35]

Your guess is as good as mine  If Stanaway's to be believed, the painting of the front part of the spinner, in the dark blue for the 431st only was done for a short time while they were on Dobodura.

I suppose another possibilty is that the ones showing a blue spinner for the 431st were some of the hand me downs from the 39th FS and they didn't remove the blue spinners that the 39th FS had and just added the red band?

There is one profile in Possum, Clover and Hades that shows the red band on the blue nose of an early 431st bird.

Guess we'll never know for sure unless we can find one still parked in the jungle somewhere with the paint still on

Dan/CorkyJr

[Knite]

First off, I just want to once again say thank you for all the help. As always the knowledge and advice you are willing to give is very very helpful.

Here's two pictures of my final render =) Hope you all like it! I know they don't have propellers. I haven't figured out the animation part  yet ;-) lol. The good news is that much of this was done with Aces High in mind, and I should be able to convert the panel lines, rivets, and insignias over with little trouble. Without further ado....

[oboe]

   Very nice, Knite!   Beautiful scheme.    I like the way your tails have some thickness to them - in AH they seem to be razor thin.