Author Topic: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS  (Read 2215 times)

Offline Vraciu

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2021, 02:58:52 PM »
No help on the dates of the color photo - good idea, but it just shows the date I downloaded it, or put it in my current research file folder apparently.

I had already submitted the skin late last night with the overspray details, however based on you guy's suggestions I've reworked it quite a bit - its still there if you look but not as obvious.   I re-updated it just now.  First time I've tried updating a submitted skin, so we'll see how that feature works!

Thanks everybody for advice, assistance and comments.  Appreciated as always!

I've updated after submission and it works like a charm.   Great functionality with that feature.  It's a big help.   I almost always find a mistake ten minutes after I upload the files.   Now those can be fixed right away.
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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2021, 06:35:21 PM »
I've updated after submission and it works like a charm.   Great functionality with that feature.  It's a big help.   I almost always find a mistake ten minutes after I upload the files.   Now those can be fixed right away.

I was able to update Dinah-Mite, but not E-Rat-Icator.  I think its because E-Rat-Icator was a brand new submit; its not in game yet so not available on the Update selection page.   

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2021, 08:08:33 PM »
I was able to update Dinah-Mite, but not E-Rat-Icator.  I think its because E-Rat-Icator was a brand new submit; its not in game yet so not available on the Update selection page.

Hmmmmmm.  Interesting.  Maybe Hitech can fix that.   Can't remember if I've tried it with a new submission.
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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2021, 08:18:45 AM »
Great work Oboe! Would really like some of these forts installed into our SEA maps as the default skins. <S>
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2021, 10:52:31 PM »
The "Dinah-Mite" #48694 of the 487th Bomb Group is quite dear to me. My father Willard Skoglund was assigned to her as a mechanic on the ground crew. He painted the Vargas girl on the planes nose and used the January 1945 calendar page as the model. I have that page in his scrap book. In a story of the radio operator Sabatine Branco by his son on page 2 photo 2 my father is on the left of the 4 men under the nose of the plane. http://www.487thbg.org/Stories/SJB.shtml

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2021, 11:27:08 PM »
Incredible connection, gskoggie!  Thanks for sharing that.   

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2021, 02:17:38 AM »
The "Dinah-Mite" #48694 of the 487th Bomb Group is quite dear to me. My father Willard Skoglund was assigned to her as a mechanic on the ground crew. He painted the Vargas girl on the planes nose and used the January 1945 calendar page as the model. I have that page in his scrap book. In a story of the radio operator Sabatine Branco by his son on page 2 photo 2 my father is on the left of the 4 men under the nose of the plane. http://www.487thbg.org/Stories/SJB.shtml

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Re: "Dinah Mite" B-17G 487th BG 839th BS
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2021, 01:50:27 AM »
Looks good.   :aok
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