Anyone working on an 82nd FG P-38J?

[oboe]

Now that cooler, wet weather is impending I'm thinking about skinning again.   While looking through my old files I found I had started a P-38J from the 82nd FG.   I think I intended it to be C.O. Ben Mason's "Billy Boy", but I hadn't gotten as far as the nose art.

Was someone else working on a nat metal '38 from the 82nd?   I've looked through AH-skins as well as the "Under Construction" topic here but don't see anything...

Citabria - hopefully you are planning a few more 38s?

[Citabria]

I am still plugging away on adding eveyr posible detail I can find on my p51D. but I am interested in doing a p38J for the 475th FG and a head hunters p38J with the green spinners with white trim and yellow lettering called Porky II but I think thats 80th FG not 82nd so knock yourself out! there is a lot of spam filler skins in the 38J lineup so bumping some of those porkers out wont take much.

I am pretty sure HTC's policy on accepting skins once the planes got 15 is to delete poorly constructed skins if the submitted skins are very high quality.

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by Citabria
I am still plugging away on adding eveyr posible detail I can find on my p51D. but I am interested in doing a p38J for the 475th FG and a head hunters p38J with the green spinners with white trim and yellow lettering called Porky II but I think thats 80th FG not 82nd so knock yourself out! there is a lot of spam filler skins in the 38J lineup so bumping some of those porkers out wont take much.

I am pretty sure HTC's policy on accepting skins once the planes got 15 is to delete poorly constructed skins if the submitted skins are very high quality.

Porky II was a P38H Fester.  The restored Planes of Fame J model is painted as Porky  II.

Ed Cragg was killed in his H model "Porky II"  He was CO of the 80th FS Headhunters at the time.

How bout doing  Danny Robert's 433rd FS 475th FG P38H instead?

[Delirium]

If you do the Porky skin, I promise to do my best to mail both the nice picture I took of Cragg's hometown newspaper and the skin in AH (both framed) to the grand-nephew of Cragg.

I have a good idea where he lives now, I just don't want to come empty handed and bother him.

Btw, as Corky/Dan and I discovered, Edward Cragg's brother flew P38s in Europe and was a West Point Grad.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Citabria


I am pretty sure HTC's policy on accepting skins once the planes got 15 is to delete poorly constructed skins if the submitted skins are very high quality.

Well, just don't knock out the 479th skin or there will be a lot of crying Raiders.


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[Blixen]

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