P-47D-40 skin adoption

[Vraciu]

Bingo.   

[lyric1]

 

[Dadtallica]

https://371stfightergroup.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/



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This may have had an influence on profiles, modelers, skinners...   Different unit but...


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https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/p-47-of-the-406th-fighter-group-named-big-ass-bird-ii.773/full?d=1533598157

Omg Big A** Bird is a must!!! I will pay! 

Perhaps Lyric can help find something on that skin?

I don't want to take away someone's favorite skin - especially since we have so many free D-40 slots available.   But I can't find any reference to this lightning bolt skin, and the skins in the game are supposed to be historically correct.

For now I'll just keep skinning the one I was working on but hold off adopting Kev's skin in hope some evidence can be found for it.   I'm sure there must be something out there - Lyric has access to a lot of info.

Well thank you but I don’t want to stand in the way of continuity lol. It’s fairly close to that B&W picture anyway. Just widen the red stripe.

[lyric1]

Fount it and it has nose art now.

"Just Bess"

[Greebo]

Omg Big A** Bird is a must!!! I will pay! 

I've already skinned it, as a D-25 (no fillet in the photo).

[Dadtallica]

Sweet!

[Vraciu]

Fount it and it has nose art now.

"Just Bess"



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[whiteman]

Ah, so you can do that - a replacement skin doesn't have to match the squadron of the old skin?  I was wondering about that. 

The one i replaced had bad info submitted to get it in the game and was supposed to have been removed but never was. A few of the F4U's had information that was a stretch but i went with what was there, just one was so egregious i completely replaced it.

[oboe]

Thank you, Lyric.  You are the skinning community's MVP for sure!

OK, it's a little weird that 42-28839 is a P-47D-28RA and yet is clear from the picture it has the tail dorsal fin.  I thought the first appearance of the dorsal fin came with the -30RA submodel.   I can only conclude some -28RAs were field modified?

At any rate, thanks to Lyric and Dadtallica, the skin 42-28839 is safe as a D-40.   

Vraciu identified the 367th FG skin I am working on - "Duck Butt".  There is a plastic model of her and the box art grabbed me:


Vraciu's image of her is actually a B&W photo of the model in a diorama setting - extremely well done.   When finished she'll go in as a new submission rather than an update of an adoption.   

BTW, apparently "duck butt" was slang for a short person but I have no idea who the figure in the nose art is, or why the plane was named such.  Pilot was Lt Arthur G. Witters; he stayed in the Air Force after the War and went on to build the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

"Big A55 Bird" is one of my favorite D-25 skins.  That one, "Coffey's Pot", "Snorting' Bull" are all terrific.  Greebo does an outstanding job with all his skins.

[Dadtallica]

Thank you to all of you they are alright by me!  By the way the skin in question, 42-28839, I feel it’s one of the closet to the shiny bare metal look you were discussing in another thread. 

Lol @ Duck-Butt

[lyric1]

Better image than the one I posted before.

[lyric1]

Thank you, Lyric.  You are the skinning community's MVP for sure!

OK, it's a little weird that 42-28839 is a P-47D-28RA and yet is clear from the picture it has the tail dorsal fin.  I thought the first appearance of the dorsal fin came with the -30RA submodel.   I can only conclude some -28RAs were field modified?

At any rate, thanks to Lyric and Dadtallica, the skin 42-28839 is safe as a D-40.   

Vraciu identified the 367th FG skin I am working on - "Duck Butt".  There is a plastic model of her and the box art grabbed me:
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Vraciu's image of her is actually a B&W photo of the model in a diorama setting - extremely well done.   When finished she'll go in as a new submission rather than an update of an adoption.   

BTW, apparently "duck butt" was slang for a short person but I have no idea who the figure in the nose art is, or why the plane was named such.  Pilot was Lt Arthur G. Witters; he stayed in the Air Force after the War and went on to build the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

"Big A55 Bird" is one of my favorite D-25 skins.  That one, "Coffey's Pot", "Snorting' Bull" are all terrific.  Greebo does an outstanding job with all his skins.

[Vraciu]

Oh yeah.  You can trek is a model when you look closer.  Oops.

[Vraciu]

Oh yeah.  You can TELL IT is a model when you look closer.  Oops.

[Vraciu]

Yes, many D-28s received a dorsal fin retrofit.