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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Citabria on September 05, 2005, 05:20:41 PM
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I am looking for the origional color ww2 pics of a b17g natural metal with olive drab anti glare panels yellow tail and wingtips and stabilizers green stripes on tail.
it was a famous b17 just cant place the name it had yellow everywhere and replacement wing panel on outboard wing.
anyone point me in the right direction?
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Bet the house you mean "A Bit O Lace"
447th BG B17G
photo shows up here.
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~josephkennedy/combat_photo_gallery1.htm
I have both histories of the 447th as I'd researched a 447th B17 crew that went down. I know I have good profiles of it, as well as photos.
I'll try and dig them out
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This guy has a great site on the 447th. Lots of info and some color of 447th birds including Bit O Lace
http://www.447bg.com/
And of course this site about A Bit O Lace
with color
http://www.bates-r-us.org/abitolace/index.html
And because I'm proud of it. My research project on a 447th BG B17 crew. An AW buddy put it on his site.
http://www.worldwar2pilots.com/guynn-01.htm
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Profile of Lace
Only thing that's off to me is that they make the anti glare look yellow when it's really very faded OD
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/169_1125960303_bitolace.jpg)
Other side from a real color image showing the weathering and very faded anti glare as well as the replacement wing panal, rudder etc.
(http://www.bates-r-us.org/abitolace/largepics/backside.jpg)
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thanks guppy!
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B17s? are your 51s done? i may of missed them :( that is a bright bird...i better not miss that one. ;)
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Fester you wont be able to do that skin.
The b17 have skining errors, the Triangle from the default skin is transfered to the right wing. And the USAF emblem is transfered to other wing. Thats why not many b17 skins our done. I would love to make skins for it but I gave up untill the new model comes.
-Spade
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If you want to do a skin, I know of a olive drab one called "Mount n ride" Guppy gave me information on it.
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Think he wants it because after the 109s and spits they are redoing the B17. In other words hes calling dibbs :)