Author Topic: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2  (Read 4291 times)

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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2018, 12:39:06 AM »




I'd say this one is a "HL" bird. You can see the very top of a letter code on the fuselage. Looks like the top right of the "H" and the top of the "L"

It surely is not a  "MX or "WZ" code and the stripes tail is clearly evident.
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2018, 12:54:09 AM »
Which hoses me as I need a WZ.
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #34 on: July 18, 2018, 09:35:23 AM »
You guys rock.  Thanks.  :cheers:
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #35 on: July 28, 2018, 08:50:20 PM »
Which hoses me as I need a WZ.

Only three photos of olive drab P-51's in the book that arrived today that I can glean any information off of.
First one I got you a WZ & an A to boot.  :aok  With all the dirty snow on the tail not 100% sure it is bare metal & red stripes I think 99.9% will do?












Since it has a blanky on to keep the engine warm and it has the aircraft code A and we know the first P-51B had a special name on it & if we combine the first P-51B for the group and the letter A & just myself assuming it just might I mean might have this hidden under it.  :rock




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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #36 on: July 28, 2018, 10:00:13 PM »
Excellent!   Now we are getting somewhere. 


Third photo link is broken. 
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #37 on: July 28, 2018, 10:21:15 PM »
Excellent!   Now we are getting somewhere. 


Third photo link is broken.

Strange shows on my end deleted link and reloaded it.
Shows now on your end?

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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #38 on: July 28, 2018, 10:56:42 PM »
That did it.

I can't believe these suckers are screwing us out of the code letters!!!!   Didn't anyone know how to take pictures back then?    :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead

LOL :)
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #39 on: July 28, 2018, 11:54:51 PM »
That did it.

I can't believe these suckers are screwing us out of the code letters!!!!   Didn't anyone know how to take pictures back then?    :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead

LOL :)

None to be seen that's why.
Sorry couple of pages stuck together missed this the first time through the book.


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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2018, 10:48:13 AM »
 :aok

So, I can code it WZ*A and take the name off or leave it...   
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2018, 11:38:50 AM »
:aok

So, I can code it WZ*A and take the name off or leave it...

I think so.
In reality it was always a hypothetical skin before you got to it.
All the changes you have done so far and what ever you will do will only make it a better skin than it was.

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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #42 on: July 29, 2018, 01:51:51 PM »
I think so.
In reality it was always a hypothetical skin before you got to it.
All the changes you have done so far and what ever you will do will only make it a better skin than it was.

Fair enough.  I'll get on it.

And just for the record, I am not trying to monopolize the P-51 skins.  If anyone wants one that I've already updated I'm happy to give it up (with maybe one or two exceptions that I've grown attached to).  I'm not doing this to monopolize the skins.  I'm doing it to make them better.   I think I am improving on what's there and that's the goal, not to "own" every Mustang.   Nobody else seems to be interested in updating them since Oboe left, so I am fixing what I can fix until someone better comes along to take over.

Also, there are a bunch I'm not planning to even touch.   I figure I will do a handful more and be done.  The others are good enough as they are or are more complex than my skills can handle.  I'll at least have made a dent in it in any case which I think was an effort that was worth undertaking.
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2018, 07:20:07 PM »
Also, there are a bunch I'm not planning to even touch.   I figure I will do a handful more and be done.  The others are good enough as they are or are more complex than my skills can handle.  I'll at least have made a dent in it in any case which I think was an effort that was worth undertaking.

Time to tackle something all new, I think.

October scenario will need some P-38.  :D
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Re: P-51B "First Of The Few" - 31st FG, 309th FS - AH3 Adoption Ver 2
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2018, 07:24:32 PM »
Time to tackle something all new, I think.

October scenario will need some P-38.  :D

I heard the 38s had wrapping/stretching issues so I decided to wait until they were revised.
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