P51 request, real or not?

[cactuskooler]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,286305.0.html

[Shane]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,286305.0.html

yeah, that.  it's not in-game tho'...  i'll take a pix at work tmw. also a razorback jug i did, "Touch of Texas."  had just started to do weathering on both when i kind of faded on the hobby again, lol. i'll get back to it some day -  when my reflexes go, perhaps. 

[Tyrannis]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,286305.0.html

eh,
I think the green looks better on the airframe than that Brown.

[gyrene81]

it's not brown, it's a glossy olive drab.

almost like the real deal

[B4Buster]

It's a cursive 'G', but I don't believe cursive is taught in schools anymore.

[Tyrannis]

it's not brown, it's a glossy olive drab.

almost like the real deal

(Image removed from quote.)

So, is the original a light green like in the pic i posted, or that olive drab in your pic?

I think the light green looks much better on the airframe IMO.

[The Fugitive]

So, is the original a light green like in the pic i posted, or that olive drab in your pic?

I think the light green looks much better on the airframe IMO.

....and the artist that painted the picture thought it looked nicer too, but that doesn't make it right. The Olive Drab color is the right one.

[Tyrannis]

....and the artist that painted the picture thought it looked nicer too, but that doesn't make it right. The Olive Drab color is the right one.

was merely asking.

[The Fugitive]

was merely asking.

....was merely answering 

[gyrene81]

So, is the original a light green like in the pic i posted, or that olive drab in your pic?

I think the light green looks much better on the airframe IMO.

did you look at the colors around the prop? i'm betting the "areteest" who painted that image you found thought the same as you. it just wouldn't be correct though. olive drab was an easy color to find in the supply depots. almost all military vehicles and some aircraft were painted with it.

whether or not the light green is historically correct around the nose is another story.

[Shane]

....and the artist that painted the picture thought it looked nicer too, but that doesn't make it right. The Olive Drab color is the right one.

guilty.  

 



 

[Slash27]

A very well known Mustang.  The stripe in the picture posted by the OP is actually red not yellow.  There were 4 Millie G's  One of them actually still survives, although not in the WW2 markings as it served with a number of countries before ending up in the Dominican Republic

http://www.mustangsmustangs.us/p-51/survivors/pages/44-72123.shtml

There is another Mustang restored in those colors although not the real wartime bird.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.us/p-51/survivors/pages/44-14985.shtml

Mounted on a pole??? That ain't right.