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Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Blixen on November 18, 2005, 03:12:18 PM

(http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6577/night9cd.jpg)

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Citabria on November 18, 2005, 04:21:12 PM

my 14th FG 37thFS looks pretty much just like that except it has numbers on the nose and radiators.

has same red bordered stars and all.

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Blixen on November 18, 2005, 06:01:32 PM

its pure black fester night 38 fighter

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Citabria on November 18, 2005, 07:30:20 PM

nope.

its olive drab man. there were no black P-38s except the nightfighter version with the radar and extra bubble cockpit for the radar operator.

 its just a color shifted photo but you can still tell its Olive Drab.

I am sure all Knigh Rider fans love having a black P38 but it just wasn't there in the daylight air war.

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Blixen on November 18, 2005, 07:44:39 PM

maybe u right but it says night fighter on the pic i got here

p38 national meseum (http://p38assn.org/gallery.htm)

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Krusty on November 18, 2005, 08:20:04 PM

No -Gs were night fighters, from memory. That's clearly an OD paint scheme (look at the wingtip). Like I've said before, color film back then was primitive. Much more so than what we have today. The processing and the development of film and photos, coupled with the film that couldn't differentiate between all colors, often meant that colors showed up wrong.

Looks like the image was either:

1) over exposed when taken, they didn't have sophisticated light meters like we do now

2) not stopped 100% when printed, so that it got darker over time, or burned when printing

3) Just couldn't get the color on the film properly, and/or scanned improperly to get it into digital format.


My $0.02

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Treize69 on November 18, 2005, 09:24:26 PM

Might not look so dark if the ground behind it wasn't tinted blue from the haze too.

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Guppy35 on November 18, 2005, 11:30:46 PM

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Originally posted by Blixen
its pure black fester night 38 fighter

Nope, just an OD/Gray P38H.  A better picture of the same bird. Check the serial on the tail.  It matchs :)

Lots of photos of that brand new H taken on a factory test flight

(http://www.furballunderground.com/freehost/files/27/P38H.jpg)

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Blixen on November 19, 2005, 03:51:31 PM

oh well still would like to see black g:lol

Title: wishin to see this skin
Post by: Stang on November 19, 2005, 04:17:40 PM

As far as I know there never was a black P-38?  At least not a fighter version?