No. 617 Squadron, Lanc III

[ezglider]

Hello Skinners!

Is there anyone interested who can research and create the RAF No. 617 Squadron skin for the Lancaster III? This is the squadron that flew the famous Dambuster mission on May 16, 1943 and sunk the Battleship Tirpitz in a Norway fjord on Nov 12, 1944.  Surely these events should qualify for recognition in Aces High. The Dickweed Heavy Bomber Group likes to recreate these events and uses available RAF skins. Not having the 617 Squadron skin is almost a sin! TIA for the consideration.

Ezglider, CO, DHBG

[Greebo]

I vaguely remember asking Pyro if a Dambuster or Grand Slam scheme would be acceptable on the Lancaster when it was first introduced into the game. He had some reservations about the shape difference and the possibility of HTC introducing those variants later on (not going to happen now of course) but he did agree to let me do it. However when I put it to the other skinners at the time they were not happy so I dropped the idea. They have all left the game now though so unless anyone else objects I'll skin a Dambuster Lancaster after the Yak I am currently doing for Devil.

BTW my existing 9 Squadron Lancaster skin is of an aircraft that took part in the Tirpitz missions.

[ezglider]

We use No. 9 on these missions but 617 is legendary and was the primary squadron in both those operations.

Thanks Greebo, I think 617 will be a great addition to the flight line. 

<S> Ez

[Greebo]

Rather than a Dambusters Lanc, which would be the same as all the other skins bar the code letters, I think if no one objects I'd rather skin a 617 Squadron Grand Slam bomb variant as shown below. This had the Lancaster daytime scheme with Medium Sea Grey rather than black undersides, camo'd fuselage sides and vertical tails and red and yellow squadron codes which were repeated on the horizontal tail. I have found good photos of several of these aircraft and it should make for a much more interesting skin.

[ezglider]

Awesome! 

  ez