Updated P 38 Skins

[Vraciu]

Thanks, G.   Most of mine were adoptions so I don't have any objection to you working on those. 

The few I can think of that I would like to do again are GENTLE ANNIE, LITTLE RED HEAD II, and CURLY SIX.    I can't think of any others that I'm invested in beyond those.   I'll look at the list just to be sure, but I think you can go for it on some of the iconic ones like MARGE if you want them.

[Vraciu]

I also want to do VIRGINIA MARIE and LOUISE again, along with Zemke's 823-Z.    The rest are fair game.   Have at it and thanks for the consideration.

[Greebo]

Its not really a problem for me as I've got plenty of other P-38 subjects I can skin without having to revisit your work. But it is useful to know what you are both doing in case I get a skin request from a player or for a scenario.

[oboe]

I'll most likely make Jack Ilfrey's natural metal P-38J from the 20th FG "Happy Jack's Go Buggy" my first subject, as it was my first P-38 skin ever in the game way back when.   Just seems fitting to me to continue that tradition. I'm fond of the bare aluminum finish with yellow spinners and nacelle bands; I think it suits the P-38 and looks sharp. 

I'm also interested in doing "Trigor Mortis II", a red-trimmed P-38J from the 475th FG, and also looking at "Gung Ho", a 367th FG P-38L.

Of my former P-38s, I'll probably work on skins from this group:

P-38Gs:
49FG/9FS by Oboe   "Beautiful Lass"
35FG/39FS by Oboe   Tommy Lynch's "White 10" Sharkmouth theme

P-38Js:
8FG/80FS by Oboe   "Jandina II"
479FG/434FS by Oboe   "Little Edris"
55FG/38FS by Oboe   "Journey's End"
370FG/485FS by Oboe   "My Little Pig"

P-38Ls:
49FG/8FS by Oboe   Itsy Bitsy II
80FG/459FS by Oboe   Geronimo

The rest of my P-38s I'm planning to just leave go.   

[Greebo]

I'm most of the way through skinning the 485th FS P-38L "Les Vin, Les Femmes et Les Chansons". After that I'll skin a PTO P-38J, possibly one that I did before, the 12th FS "St Louis Blues".

Lyric1's found me some new subjects including a 39th FS P-38G with late 1943 red-rimmed markings as well as "Kwitcherpis'n" a 402nd FS P-38J.

Of my other old skins I'll likely redo the following:-

P-38G:-
459th FS, Frances Rebel
37th FS, (desert camo)
55th FG, Texas Ranger

P-38J:-
431st FS, Wanda/Madu

P-38L:-
96th FS, Gotterdamerung
459th FS, Melba Lou IV
49th FS, Elsie
36th FS, Pay Off

[Vraciu]

Looks good to me, guys.

We can always bump this thread as needed down the road.

[Shuffler]

I'm feeling a bit giddy

 

[Vraciu]

I'm feeling a bit giddy

 

Well you can do it without me as I've not gotten the official endorsement from the Butthurt Brigade:

Can't wait to see new P-38 skins roll off your [Greebo's] and Oboe's assembly line! <S>

He just can't help himself.  What a schmuck.

[oboe]

I would also like to see Whiteman take a shot at some '38s.   His paint fading, staining and chipping is so good on the Corsairs; I'd like to see his treatment on an olive drab '38.

Are there any dedicated P-38 squads any more (beside the 80thFS) who would like a skin?  Seems like at one time we had the 475th Satan's Angels, 479th Riddle's Raiders, 80th Headhunters, the 49th FG, and I think the 82nd FG.  Interest in historical-based squads seems to have waned, or at least I'm not running into them any more.

[whiteman]

I would also like to see Whiteman take a shot at some '38s.   His paint fading, staining and chipping is so good on the Corsairs; I'd like to see his treatment on an olive drab '38.

Are there any dedicated P-38 squads any more (beside the 80thFS) who would like a skin?  Seems like at one time we had the 475th Satan's Angels, 479th Riddle's Raiders, 80th Headhunters, the 49th FG, and I think the 82nd FG.  Interest in historical-based squads seems to have waned, or at least I'm not running into them any more.

I honestly thought about doing a J, it's my favorite of the 3. I'm working on a Hellcat template right now then the two Wildcats, then most certainly a possibility.