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Offline Greebo

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VF-27 Hellcat
« on: October 01, 2008, 11:35:37 AM »
This is the F6F-3 of Lt Richard Stambook of VF-27. Prior to joining VF-27 he flew SBDs with VS-3 and F4Fs with VF-3 and VF-6. He claimed the last of his 10 kills six days before his carrier the USS Princeton was sunk by a lone Judy dive bomber.

There's a little bit of stretching across the extreme front of the cowling, which prevents me getting the mouth exactly right, but its pretty close.

The skin is up at http://www.ah-skins.com/ if you want to take a closer look.



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Offline RATTFINK

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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2008, 01:04:49 PM »
Wicked man!

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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2008, 01:42:44 PM »
wow that was fast! :salute. any plan's for any more tri colors like your old VF-5 from the yorktown?
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Offline MjTalon

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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2008, 03:55:52 PM »
outstanding skin greebo! That's the same skin i have in my book "American Warplanes of WW2"   :salute
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2008, 04:52:25 PM »
Looks Purrrr-fect!

Just an excellent skin all the way around.   Thanks, Greebo!
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2008, 05:00:15 PM »
Another excellent job.  :aok
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2008, 05:12:34 AM »
Thanks guys. I'm not planning on doing any more tri-colour F6Fs at the moment. In most cases it would be pretty much the same skin with a different squadron number, as there was not a lot of personal or squadron variation allowed by the USN. Maybe if an AH squad wants a squad skin. Also I think I'm getting close to the number of F6F slots I can reasonably take up and there's other schemes I want to do more.
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Offline RATTFINK

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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2008, 08:29:11 AM »
Your callsign should be F6FGAWD ;)

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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2008, 09:19:17 AM »
Very nice job!  :aok
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2008, 10:27:08 AM »
Very nice job!
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2008, 03:04:21 PM »
Your efforts and artistic expertise is MUCH APPRECIATED !!!
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Re: VF-27 Hellcat
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2008, 07:28:36 PM »
yay my favorite old f6 skin is back :D :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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