B24?

[lyric1]

Can any one shed some light on this plane I don't have any other information except for this picture.

[colmbo]

I'm pretty sure it was an 8th AF Liberator.  I'm trying to move so all my books are packed -- give me about 6 weeks and I'll let you know. 

[Guppy35]

448th Bomb Group out of Seething, England had some 24s painted up that way.

[USRanger]

Oh man that's sweet.  Anyone willing to give it a go?

[lyric1]

Well after digging around & following a lead posted to my thread it turns out it is a b24 that was part of the 448th bomb group & was the lead ship for the 712th b/s It was called Rugged But Right. As you can see from the colour photo & compared to the black & white's as well as the profile that is in colour the nose art is not quite the same. Now this plane did survive the war & was returned to the United States so either it had some repainting done after the war or the picture has been touched up. The plane's number is 42-94953 & as you can see it is a H model so I don't know if that would exclude it from the game. Any thoughts? please post them.                  

[rogerdee]

i thnk the only difference between this model and the one we have is the gun turrets,i may be wrong but i think it would be accepted
as it is basicaly the same aircraft.
Now if it had been a d model then that wouldnt

[Greebo]

I'll do that one if you like Lyric. Any turret-nosed Liberator should be OK as a skin.

[StugIII]

it looks interesting, probably be pretty hard to do tho

[rogerdee]

are you going to do it greebo?i know you will make a better job of it then what i have got so far.

[Greebo]

I'd like to do it Roger, it looks an interesting skin. Getting the noseart to wrap round and avoiding the skin stretching will be a challenge.

[lyric1]

I was reading the book with these pictures in it & found a brief fact on this plane it was a 715th b/s plane & was later consolidated into the 712th b/s it flew 23 missions & the IO letters of the squadron may have been added later.

[rogerdee]

go for it mate and good luck

[Xasthur]

Lyric, get into skinning mate. You post some quality info.... give it a bash for yourself mate. It's time consuming but it isn't that difficult.

[lyric1]

Lyric, get into skinning mate. You post some quality info.... give it a bash for yourself mate. It's time consuming but it isn't that difficult.

Never have been able to do stuff from reading instructions I am the type that has to look over some ones shoulder to see how it is done.  When I see how to do it it makes sense to me, my type of learning has a name how ever I can't remember it. Plus this plane is to cool for a hack like myself to do I would have had some one else do it to make it the best it could be for the game. So I am glad Greebo or one of the other fine skinners took the plunge on it.

[Hwkeye]

Since it looks from the photos that the squadron flew with both the Emerson and Sperry front turrets it should be a 'go' in AH2.