Originally posted by Guppy35
Looking at the skin, I have one question.
Do you have another photo that shows the D-Day stripes on the fuselage that way with the unpainted parts so the letter show? The one photo I've seen, and I think you posted it once, doesn't show that. Where it looks like a break near the VF seems to be the outline of the handhold not a change in the direction of the white paint on the stripe.
I think the letters were painted over the white on both the VF and the B
For what it's worth 
Hey Guppy!
Well I looked at several sources. The photo you referenced,
is not of much help. I do believe that if you do look closely under the elevator that the paint stops below the "B". I am open to other's opinions on that, as it is pretty fuzzy. Like wise if you look closely and blow it up and use your imagination some it sorta kinda
appears that there is angeled paint from just under the left part of the stars and bars up and down toward the nose.
I also used Harly Copic's print of this particular Mustang as a guide. Mr. Copic did several Mustang Aces years ago and I have had one of his prints since about 1990. The paint for the stripes on the fusalage on the skin matches his artwork. (I cannot find an image online of this and the original is at home with my digital camera, I will post it later tonight)
I did find some others during my research that agreed with you. Here is a piece by Trudgian
that supports what you said, but it seems off to me under the canopy.
I found this..
which shows a 336th Mustang with just the lower fusalage stripes. It matches the general layout I used on the skin.
The neat one I found was this..
This obviously shows all of the 3 squadrons of the 4th FG, and you will notice that some have the letters painted over the stripes and some don't. The 336th bird seems to not have them over the stripes.
So I thought about it, and did some more research. (I truly loved doing all the digging on getting this skin as close to as it was as possible)
I found that "Goody" cracked up a Mustang on June 7, 1944 (Plane 44-13300) when he crashed landed at Manston. It was coded the same (VF-B). Obviously this plane (44-13303) was then given to him as a replacement sometime after the 7th. I then theorized that they would have been more careful in painting this one, as there was no rush to paint the stripes in one day. With that in mind I went with the Copic paint scheme which seemed to match at least 2 photos of that time period.
What do you think?
I am open to doing it with the letters on top of the stripes if we can find out it was that way, or I made some wrong assumptions, interpertation of photos. Let me know what you think. I just want it correct.
Cheers,
