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Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: dsrtrat on June 12, 2004, 09:38:19 AM

Here they are.

(http://www.hunt101.com/img/175744.jpg)

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: Sp4de on June 12, 2004, 10:55:34 AM

I like it:) wtg:aok

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: SELECTOR on June 12, 2004, 12:10:42 PM

they are nice . but putting on some weathering will make them better..

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: Replicant on June 12, 2004, 12:26:42 PM

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Originally posted by SELECTOR
they are nice . but putting on some weathering will make them better..

I think that's why Ratty said 'just started'! :)  There's a problem with Pony B skinning and I guess he wants to see if they'll be considered by HTC before spending more time on them.

Official Spokesman for Ratman ;)

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: dsrtrat on June 12, 2004, 01:19:01 PM

LOL Nexx, I forgot to mail you your salary this month. Trust me, it is on the way.

Selector, Nexx hit the nail on the head. I simply put down the camo to test it and see how the model skins with RAF camo. The big problem is the models use of mirrored sides. Everything ahead of the windscreen, the wings and the Horizontal stabs are mirrored. With RAf Camo you end up with 2 matching sides and that is not historically correct. I want to know if HT would overlook the wingtop camo so as to allow a couple of RAF 51s into the game. The D-Day one shows very little of the original camo. I will complete panel lines, rivets and weathering after I get a yay or nay from HT.

These shots show the mirror on the wings. This is the only view where it really shows. If most AHer's (especially HT/Pyro) are ok with this, then we could have a couple RAF 51's.



(http://www.hunt101.com/img/175830.jpg)

(http://www.hunt101.com/img/175834.jpg)

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: gofaster on June 14, 2004, 09:10:45 AM

I like the look of GAOR moreso than the second one (NOP? Can't see the letters very well).  Those D-Day stripes are going to make for easy target shooting.  At least with GAOR there's a chance I can make a deck run unnoticed.

Any chance of doing either of these?

(http://www.hobbylinc.com/gr/rvl/rvl04167.jpg)

(http://www.discounttrainsonline.com/graphics/RMG/L4182.jpg)

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: dsrtrat on June 14, 2004, 09:42:09 AM

I want to have at least one with invasion stripes. DO you have a larger picture of the 2nd (US) mustang?

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: Zanth on June 14, 2004, 09:54:40 AM

Glad to see someone working on the B.  Pyro said they were going to change the canopy- maybe then the mirroring thing will be fixed too?

I had run across this D-Day version too, though I like your camoskin very much too.

(http://www.web-birds.com/8th/352/p51bprofile487.jpg)

487th Fighter Squadron P51B "Francis B Too" of Ralph Hamilton, in full D-Day markings

P51B is going to be a heavily used plane - I hope they finish it off well.

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: dsrtrat on June 14, 2004, 10:37:30 AM

Changing just the canopy or will the model see some changes? If they change the model I might be painting for nothing . Hope to hear from Pyro soon.

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: gofaster on June 14, 2004, 01:29:13 PM

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Originally posted by Zanth
Glad to see someone working on the B.  Pyro said they were going to change the canopy... P51B is going to be a heavily used plane - I hope they finish it off well.

Oh!  Sweet!  Sounds like my pleas to go to a Malcolm hood have been heard!

If they do that, then I will definitely jump out of the G6 and into a B-stang more often.  The standard B-stang glass was annoying.

Here are some pics of a model of a P-51B based in China, for dsrtrat:

(http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Gal3/2001-2100/Gal2052_P-51_Chirico/01.jpg)
(http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Gal3/2001-2100/Gal2052_P-51_Chirico/02.jpg)
(http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Gal3/2001-2100/Gal2052_P-51_Chirico/08.jpg)
(http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Gal3/2001-2100/Gal2052_P-51_Chirico/09.jpg)
(http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Gal3/2001-2100/Gal2052_P-51_Chirico/05.jpg)

If I'm not mistaken, this Mustang was based with the group that was built from the AVG pilots, hence the sharkmouth on the nose.

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: ramzey on June 14, 2004, 05:00:11 PM

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Originally posted by gofaster

Any chance of doing either of these?

(http://www.hobbylinc.com/gr/rvl/rvl04167.jpg)

(http://www.discounttrainsonline.com/graphics/RMG/L4182.jpg)

i start raf skin for pony B but got piss of for all this "bug's" in uv mapping.
Soon will come back to this project

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: Guppy35 on June 14, 2004, 05:26:07 PM

Kinda like this one of a Polish Squadron Mustang III

Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/169_1083788426_polishmustangiiirefined.jpg)

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: dsrtrat on June 14, 2004, 06:03:34 PM

It is not that difficult to change th e paintscheme once the rivets and panels are laid out. I can do both of those planes if I know that the 51 model won't be changing soon and rendering my work useless.

Title: 2 RAF 51Bs just started
Post by: ramzey on June 14, 2004, 09:42:30 PM

templates allways stay, at last some parts you can use later for new skin