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Offline Fencer51

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346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« on: July 01, 2008, 08:55:18 PM »
P-39L-15 "Evelyn" of the 346th FS / 350th FG of Lt Hugh Dow, Maison Blanche, Algeria, Spring 1943.







Had this one about done, so I finished it Sunday Night.


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Re: 348th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2008, 09:01:35 PM »
VERY NICE!
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2008, 09:28:32 PM »
Cant wait to see them in game.

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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2008, 09:37:52 PM »
 :aok  as always great work sir   :aok
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2008, 09:38:56 PM »
Sweet as always, Fence. :aok
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2008, 03:38:49 PM »
Evelyn's nose cone would have been red.

THinking that's an OD replacment nose panel too.  Had a chance to trade e-mails with Hugh Dow about this one a few years back.  It wasn't his bird.  He apparently flew it once or twice but he doesn't quite know how it got attached to him :)

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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2008, 05:09:37 PM »
"Although Hugh Dow was photographed sitting on this particular machine, his regular mount was marked with the identification letter 'D' on the cockpit door, and carried the name Rowdy (the pilot's nickname).  It may have been that Dow had simply flown 'V' on that day and someone thought it significant to photograph 42-4520 due to its identification letter symbolising the Allied victory symbol in World War 2."

Good picture, the profile I used has a brown nose, and camo over the name panel and different "font" for the name.  Would that OD panel been from later in the war?  Post Africa?

Would the red nose been used in the Spring of 43 in Algeria?  Or was that an Sicily/Italy ID?
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2008, 11:10:11 PM »
Very Nice!  :aok
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2008, 01:27:22 AM »
Quote from: Fencer51 on July 02, 2008, 05:09:37 PM
"Although Hugh Dow was photographed sitting on this particular machine, his regular mount was marked with the identification letter 'D' on the cockpit door, and carried the name Rowdy (the pilot's nickname).  It may have been that Dow had simply flown 'V' on that day and someone thought it significant to photograph 42-4520 due to its identification letter symbolising the Allied victory symbol in World War 2."

Good picture, the profile I used has a brown nose, and camo over the name panel and different "font" for the name.  Would that OD panel been from later in the war?  Post Africa?

Would the red nose been used in the Spring of 43 in Algeria?  Or was that an Sicily/Italy ID?

I would assume so since it has the yellow MTO bands too along with the red spinner.  Don't know about the replacement cover.   It could be the pilot took the name panel off his previous 39 and put it on his replacement bird.  The 350th seemed to get everyone's hand me down 39s right into the summer of 44.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a hand me down from another group.  The red surround to the star and bar puts it summer of 43 so you are talking Sicily, Italy I would think.  The markings over all are not the same as most 350th FG 39s
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2008, 02:49:12 PM »
Love this beauty.  :aok
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2008, 10:27:39 AM »
Nice work as usual Fencer, now quit goofing off and get to work on a 80th FS D for us to wreck with joyous abandon.

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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2008, 02:45:04 PM »
Quote from: Soulyss on July 11, 2008, 10:27:39 AM
Nice work as usual Fencer, now quit goofing off and get to work on a 80th FS D for us to wreck with joyous abandon.

:D

Sure, no one had asked for one previously.  Got one in particular?
« Last Edit: July 11, 2008, 02:46:43 PM by Fencer51 »
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2008, 05:47:39 PM »
No, just giving you a hard time. :D

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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2008, 12:30:13 AM »
I love the P39 so this is just icing on the cake!  Great work!  Love the low intensity of it.  Looks like a real damned accurate representation too!

I look forward to flying this skin :)
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Re: 346th FS / 350th FG P-39D
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2008, 12:36:44 AM »
Very nice Fence but isn't the font and size of "Evelyn" wrong? 
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