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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2010, 07:56:12 PM »
Like the olive drab one best.
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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2010, 07:59:52 PM »
wasnt there wome brit skins for i :headscratch:t?

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2010, 08:49:42 PM »
wasnt there Some brit skins for iT :headscratch:t?

All British B-29's are all post WORLD WAR II to the best of my knowledge.


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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2010, 09:06:34 PM »
I like the nose art of this 462ND bomb group.





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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #34 on: November 17, 2010, 02:44:37 PM »
The olive drab is awesome.  Also FU-KEMAL must be done lol.
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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #35 on: November 17, 2010, 04:59:08 PM »
The olive drab is awesome.  Also FU-KEMAL must be done lol.
Agreed on both points. FU-KEMAL was not just one aircraft I think the entire squadron wore that name not 100% sure on that. Some more O/D B-29's.

















Next two are the same aircraft.







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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #36 on: November 17, 2010, 08:46:20 PM »

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #37 on: November 18, 2010, 12:19:18 AM »
Planes I'm good in the Bf-109 G14, the B-25C, and the B-17G not many but its nice for me to know :P

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #38 on: November 18, 2010, 11:18:06 AM »
Here is one of them.

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #39 on: November 18, 2010, 12:06:09 PM »
ops just looked i ment to type this in my last post here > I like this one and the rusin one.oh and just so you know, i call makeing the first video with the B-29 in it! :devil
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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #40 on: November 19, 2010, 12:40:13 AM »
A couple more OD B-29's.








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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #41 on: November 19, 2010, 12:47:09 AM »
No guns on those. They weren't combat, just transport.

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #42 on: November 19, 2010, 01:22:02 AM »
No guns on those. They weren't combat, just transport.
Only the last two lack guns.
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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #43 on: November 19, 2010, 05:15:34 AM »
No guns on those. They weren't combat, just transport.
All OD B-29's started with guns & those that ended up as transports were de-fanged. Now did those paint schemes come while they had guns or after? Don't know? It would be near impossible to find that out. I am lead to believe that there may have been only 50 to 100 OD B29's to begin with from what I have read.

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Re: First B-29 Skins post.
« Reply #44 on: November 19, 2010, 07:21:12 PM »
Considering the nose art is of the two characters climbing over mountains carrying gas cans, I'd say it was after they were in the transport mission hauling avgas over the mountains. (wild guess)

Karnak: Exactly. But if you look up higher, esso express and hobo queen also lack guns and are OD.

I'd like a little more info on this baby:



What are we looking at here? Are those engines and cowlings BMF, but the wings OD? The fuselage is clearly OD but with perhaps different shades (or metal?) rings around the base of the turrets and around the gunner windows.

What are we looking at here? Final paint? In-progress paint job? Assembly line quirk where engines from BMF met one of the last OD airframes?

Or possibly some very strange lighting/shadows affecting a paint job not fully "cured" thus making the engines and fuselage look different when the final product ends up being the same? (possible but I would doubt it).