B-17Gs

[oboe]

Thinking about it, wanted to see what I could do with it.

I have a color photo and profile of this a/c without the red-trimmed cowls and chin turret.   Fencer was kind enough to dig out his references for the skin that shows the red cowls.

<S>!

[Fencer51]

Btw Oboe that plane's nose art is the January 1945 Vargas calander girl.  Might be able to do more with it since the 17 skin upped in size.

[oboe]

Yes the extra pixels help quite bit...

She's a real dish...

[Devil 505]

Redhead... I approve. 

[Greebo]

For some reason I'm not seeing the images in the OP.

[oboe]

Neither am I -  I think the original post is years old, so the link invalid?

[Greebo]

Didn't even think to check the OP date, my bad.

[Fencer51]

The original pics were hosted on my website which I used for AH skjns and scenario files.  Deleted it when I quit the game.

[gskoggie]

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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

Thank you, sir!

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Thank you, sir!

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Thank you, sir!

[gskoggie]

Another good photo of the nose of the "Dinah-Mite" is on the 487th Bomb Group web page.
http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/DinahMiteGroundCrew.shtml
http://www.487thbg.org/