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Offline cav58d

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« on: December 30, 2005, 06:39:47 PM »
I noticed we dont have any skins besides the "default" for our lancaster...Surely there were other paint schemes for this big beautiful bird?  maybe not?  Is there no template?  whats up with the lancs?
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Offline cav58d

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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2005, 06:48:43 PM »




well, after looking at about 300 pictures of lancs (and I hate them now) these were the only three pics I found...Maybe I answered my own question
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2005, 07:29:31 PM »
The problem with Lancs is that, as far as I can tell, all in Bomber Command were  painted exactly alike:  green and brown on top and black everywhere else.  No variations in camo colors over time, like with Brit fighters.  I think the Lancs all even used the same pattern for the camo, unlike the mirroring sometimes seen on Brit fighters.  The only differences were unit codes and nose art, although sometimes they put different colors on the fins as your pics show.  So nobody's ever thought it worth the time to make a whole huge buff skin, with the only difference from the stock skin being the lettering and serial number.

That said, Coastal Command used A FEW Lancs, and that was a totally different scheme.  You know, green and gray on top and white elsewhere.  That would be worth doing.  However, I've scoured the web for hours looking for a CC paintjob for a Lanc, and have come up empty.  Even on the CC official page, they mention they used Lancs but have pics from BC.  The only thing I've found is a pic of a die-cast model with the CC paintjob, which I didn't consider worthy of using as a source.  The problem seems to be that CC had so few Lancs (1 squadron tops, IIRC, for a limited time).  It wasn't a big enough deal to get documented thoroughly.

I suppose someday I'll try to do a B24 and/or B17 in CC colors (plenty of documentation for that), if somebody doesn't beat me to it, but it's a low priority.

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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2006, 05:05:06 PM »
617 Squadron had daylight schemes for their "Specials" but they also had quite a few things different about them...

Think we should have one. Oops, that's the wish list.

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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2006, 05:40:08 PM »
I finally found some pics of Coastal Command Lancs.  They're in a book I've had lying around for years and only just remembered.  Problem is, these Lancs were modified lifeboat-droppers, but WTF?  They've got the old-school CC scheme with the purple/green top and sides and gray bottom, instead of the white sides/belly.

Also found a lot of pics of CC 24s and 17s in the same book.  So one of these days, after I finish doing some other things, maybe I'll do a CC version of one of these buffs, unless somebody's bored and beats me to it.

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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2006, 11:44:45 PM »
I'd love a CC B17 with white undersides, but I think they only had B17Es/Fs (no Gs), and very few of those to boot.