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Offline oboe

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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2017, 07:51:54 AM »
Quote from: Fencer51 on March 31, 2017, 01:24:33 AM
Really nice work Oboe.  Do you require any more photos of the aircraft?  I can check my library and see if I have anything is so.

Yes, thanks - anything you can find would be much appreciated!

I'll check the blue.  Might be time for a fresh insignia anyway - this one has been used forever and it looks a little ragged around the edges to me.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2017, 03:13:06 PM »
I started looking through my books and haven't found anything yet.  I did find an Osprey side view but it looked like your skin.
Will keep digging.


Here is one I had not seen before of Felix Rogers in his cockpit.

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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2017, 11:54:37 PM »
Interesting part is Jack Cook is an AH flyer.  He should unleash his photo collection on this crowd
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2017, 05:47:37 AM »
He used to post to WIX but unfortunately a bad atmosphere stopped his posting there.  I believe I did a relative of his F4U-1D.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2017, 12:20:15 PM »
Quote from: Fencer51 on April 04, 2017, 05:47:37 AM
He used to post to WIX but unfortunately a bad atmosphere stopped his posting there.  I believe I did a relative of his F4U-1D.

He has two groups on Facebook, one for the 9th AF and one for the 8th AF where he posts images.  Also posts in the AH group on occasion.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2017, 04:41:43 PM »
What's the status on this one, Oboe?
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2017, 07:30:21 PM »
Still a work-in-progress.  I redid the under the nose panel lines based on a recent picture you posted I think - I didn't realized but the '51D panels lines were different under the '51D nose than they are on the '51B.   The B has fewer panel sections underneath.

Still have lots of weathering details I want to add, and then of course the other maps - spec, normal, power, environment.

Played around a bit with the nose art of the other schemes I wanted to try - Snoot's Sniper of the 352nd and either Brother Bill or Bonnie Bea of the 339th too.  I don't think there's room for all 3 though, so I'm just kind of stuck on that point.

Did you find another '51B you'd like to do?


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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2017, 08:30:14 PM »
Do I have another B in mind?   Not really.  Besides, I think we have all silently/subliminally decided to leave the last B slot for you.  You've earned it.

My advice is submit Banshee as-is.  It's fantastic.  Any improvements you have can be implemented by revision.  As Devil said, it should be an advertising poster for AH3. 

This skin needs to be in the game.  No debate.  Submit it.  Improve it later (if that's even possible).

Good catch on the B panels, btw.  I will look into that as I didn't notice.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2017, 08:57:27 AM »


Here's the picture I was talking about - you can see how the lower cowl panels are one piece sections that go completely underneath the nose from one side to the other.  This is consistent with the panel drawings I have, which I had erroroneously interpreted as a lack of detail in the lower cowl sections:





So thanks for finding and posting that.  In fact, I have to check again because I still may not have it quite right.  Surprising how different the '51B is from the "D" version

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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2017, 10:45:32 AM »
Nice line drawings.   Wow.  Definitely gonna' save those.  :aok
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2017, 02:51:19 PM »
This drawing leads me to a question I have been trying to figure out for a bit.

If you look at the port (left) wing there is an oval access panel near where the national insignia is.   On the D I don't see one on the starboard (right) wing.    So...is this schematic wrong to show that panel on both wings or is this something that changed with the D?
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2017, 03:08:11 PM »
I checked the other panel line drawings I have for the B and if they show both wingtops, they show an oval panel on each wing.  I agree its present only on one wing in the D (photographic evidence of that Italian AF museum aircraft).   But I have no photos of the B's wingtops...
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2017, 03:09:54 PM »
Quote from: oboe on May 10, 2017, 03:08:11 PM
I checked the other panel line drawings I have for the B and if they show both wingtops, they show an oval panel on each wing.  I agree its present only on one wing in the D (photographic evidence of that Italian AF museum aircraft).   But I have no photos of the B's wingtops...

Crikey.  So I went and deleted them from all my Bs and probably didn't need to.    :bhead
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2017, 06:16:19 PM »
Thanks to Fencer for the photo of the Felix Rogers, pilot of Beantown Banshee.  Here's how the dummy P-51B pilot's makeover turned out:




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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2017, 06:56:08 PM »
Spitting image. Well Done.
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