Looking for help - images/information regar479th FG 434thFS P-38J "Little Edris"

[oboe]

I'd like to reskin one of my earlier AHII P-38J skins - I noticed Ack-Ack made YouTube videos of him flying, and he often used this skin from the 479th FG, "Little Edris", and I'd like to redo it as a dedication to him.

I guess I did it so long ago I don't have a back up of it, but here are the reference images I do have (looking for more):

   

[lyric1]

All I can add.

[oboe]

Thank you, Lyric -

[oboe]

Resurrection of a 479th FG skin AKAK used to fly some years ago.  I saw him also in Vraciu's fine Zemke's bare metal '38J.  He was a killer in whatever skin he flew.  <S>







 

[lyric1]

 

[Devil 505]

Most excellent.

[whiteman]

That's beechin!

[Vraciu]

I'm inclined to think the overspray under the nose is fresh OD....

[Greebo]

Very nice skin Oboe, well done.

[oboe]

Thanks.  You know when I originally did this skin, I went by primarily the cover art of the 479th Group history, top left image.  But if I compare the top right B&W photo, it sure looks to me like the nose color is lighter than the OD green.

As I understand it, leaders planes were often splashed with color somehow to make them more identifiable for form-up purposes, but I don't get where the artist came up with the dark forest green trim as the splash color.  Having second thoughts about this one...   

[Vraciu]

The darker green goes almost to the wing root...   I can't imagine it isn't OD.

Perhaps they were painting over old nose art.

[oboe]

In this photo the nose looks lighter than the OD green.  Not sure how the artist got a shade of dark forest green from that...