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Offline Citabria

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Building two p-51 skins
« on: August 11, 2005, 06:58:34 PM »
I am trying my hand at the P-51D with "Big Beautiful Doll" and a striped tailed bird fromt he 31FG/308FS.

does anyone have good references for the first one? showing the origional historic scheme not the airshow version?
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Offline Widewing

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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2005, 08:43:30 PM »

The first Big Beautiful Doll belonged to Landers when he flew with the 357th FG. Later he transferred to the 78th where the black and white checkerboard was standard fare.


Duxford's Big Beautiful Doll is spot-on accurate to the original. Duxford researches the blazes out of a scheme before they apply it.

Try this website for an accurate scale model, with lots of photos, like this one...



For the 31st FG, go here.



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Widewing
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Offline TrueKill

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Re: Building two p-51 skins
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2005, 05:26:15 AM »
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Originally posted by Citabria
I am trying my hand at the P-51D with "Big Beautiful Doll" and a striped tailed bird fromt he 31FG/308FS.

does anyone have good references for the first one? showing the origional historic scheme not the airshow version?


fester you might wanna search the boards someone called dibbs on it awhile back.
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Offline SkyChimp

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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2005, 05:31:34 AM »
I'm sure they will let Fester do it:D And i started this skin before you all :p
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Offline Mustaine

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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2005, 09:15:31 AM »
wish you would have said something a few weeks ago.

it was at the EAA fly-in, and i could have taken a ton of pictures for you :(
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Offline Morpheus

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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2005, 08:06:25 PM »
I hate you for seeing all those 51s flying around with out me. Damn you anyways!:(
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« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2005, 11:54:02 AM »
Here is the color pciture of a 31st P-51d
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