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Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2005, 12:32:53 AM »
You know, we could solve this problem REALLY REALLY EASILY.


Allow Recon planes to be skinned and Ingame.  However, the moment you get up to 15 skins, the recon plane gets bumped in favor of a real plane.
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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2005, 08:12:16 AM »
Limits suck, silly rules suck more.

Sexy blue PJ's are good.
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« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2005, 11:35:45 AM »
Gotta kinda go with Morph here...

I don't care if it was FR or PR.  It IS historically accurate (we can see the pic right here), and it's way cool.  Would look great...even if you could see it a mile away.  Hell...why not?

We have tons of really great skins, thanks to alot of hard work...but they (necessarily) all follow a certain theme.  These 'out there' schemes are therefore a fun, breath-of-fresh-air to me.

Know another one I'd like to see?  I recollect a photograph I saw of a B-24 'Pathfinder' variant, in which the AC had been painted a blinding white, and covered with multi-colored polka-dots !  IIRC, these were used like pace cars to assist in the assembly of formations, and (I think?) to lead formations when the bombing tactic was for the formation to drop when the lead dropped.

They just seem fun, basically.  Guess I'm kind of a 'Flying Circus' type...

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« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2005, 01:42:47 PM »
Love that pic. I touched it up a little to remove the ugly dark strip on the far right and used it as my wallpaper for the longest time.

On the subject of questionable P38 skins...how about one that makes it look like a droop snoot? I recall reading that someone actually used a scheme like that to make the LW pilots think his fighter was one of the unarmed pathfinder models.  Of course it wouldn't have the desired effect in AH but still...
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« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2005, 02:01:12 PM »
YES we definately need the blue 1,  that looks freakin awesome.
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« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2005, 03:07:51 PM »
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Know another one I'd like to see?  I recollect a photograph I saw of a B-24 'Pathfinder' variant, in which the AC had been painted a blinding white, and covered with multi-colored polka-dots !  IIRC, these were used like pace cars to assist in the assembly of formations, and (I think?) to lead formations when the bombing tactic was for the formation to drop when the lead dropped.

They just seem fun, basically.  Guess I'm kind of a 'Flying Circus' type...



Hell yes, that would be an awsome skin. This one with yellow and red dots would be fun too. Little Gramper
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« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2005, 04:52:41 PM »
Wow, that's some dead-sexy paintwork.
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« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2005, 05:23:30 PM »
Look at that alt-monkey!
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« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2005, 06:50:49 PM »
Hmmm...........

Thought I saw something somewhere about that skin.

Keep thinkin it was an experiment to do with camo/visibility.

Something about the blue color things tend to take on at distance due to the haze/air density?
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« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2005, 07:56:21 PM »
I have several pictures in a book Warbirds of World War II - by Jeffrey Ethell that are similar to this paint scheme.  

The P-38 (as mentioned previously) is an F-5 photo bird.  The pictures in the book that are "similar" (has big numbers on the nose vice what is in your picture) belonged to the 7th Photo Group in 1944.

The 7th is described at the following websites...

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200307/ai_n9283641

The 34th was a subordinate unit of the 7th.

http://www.34thprs.org/html/home.html
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« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2005, 09:16:15 PM »
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On the subject of questionable P38 skins...how about one that makes it look like a droop snoot? I recall reading that someone actually used a scheme like that to make the LW pilots think his fighter was one of the unarmed pathfinder models.  Of course it wouldn't have the desired effect in AH but still...


Thats what the silver nose-tip with the white band on the 20th FG Lightnings was for. From a distance, you couldn't tell whether it was a regular "J" or "Eze-Does-It", their group Droopsnoot.

California Cutie-


California Cutie in a wartime photo-


An olive-drab droopsnoot, but not Eze Does It-


The only pic I could find of Eze-Does-It led to a broken link.
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« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2005, 10:25:24 PM »
was the drop snout, or drop nose, what ever it was called now i cant recall off hand... that was also a photo recon version right?
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« Reply #27 on: November 17, 2005, 10:44:42 PM »
I imagine a Droopsnoop could be used to take pictures by having the bombadier snap them from his position.

One of the main roles for the Doopsnoop was to lead a formation of P-38Ls loaded with 4 1,000 pound bombs (Yes, the P-38L was able to carry 4000 pounds of bombs, which is incorrectly not allowed to do in AH) for level bombing missions.  The P-38Ls would drop their bombs when the Droopsnoot P-38 would drop.

IMO, I would not want to be the bombadier on the Droopsnoot, no way of exiting out quickly if necessary.


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« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2005, 11:01:33 PM »
I like jagers skin though, it looks pretty mean.  Even if it's not accurate.:aok
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« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2005, 11:42:02 PM »
yeah, can you imagine a head on pass from a 190 or 109, or niks, dam. Not the place to be.



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