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Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on July 02, 2006, 12:04:37 AM

Looking for folks that have far more resources than I do. I've got a scan from a book and it shows a TA152 with red rudder and cowling. I'm wondering if there's anything preventing us from making a skin for it (so few 152 skins!)

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 04:02:04 PM

I enver ever found any info about this. A recent post made me search for this to see if the image was still attached.

I think we need more variety in the 152 skins, and would skin this if I could get any more info on it. I'm reluctant to take it at face value because it doesn't look a think like the other 152s at the time.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Larry on May 08, 2007, 04:28:00 PM

Never seen one like that. Problem with the Ta152 is that so many of them have the same paint job. If you choose to skin it I have a temp you could use. Rivets arent "historical" but the pannel lines are.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 04:30:41 PM

That'd save me some time, thanks.

I just dunno if I got a leg to stand on, accuracy-wise. Would like to see it in-game, definitely.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Larry on May 08, 2007, 04:37:04 PM

I found this one awhile ago but dont have any proof it was real eather.


Edit: Also have some pages that Crumpp sent me that has black and white pics of 190s in a "blueprint" kinda thing.



(http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/axis/cleaver/cleaver152j.jpg)

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Dux on May 08, 2007, 04:40:21 PM

That doesn't quite look like a Ta152... is it?

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Larry on May 08, 2007, 04:41:25 PM

Looks like eather a dora or Ta152. It had no title on it.





Now that I take a good look at it, its a dora :p


Dux how do you become a member of AH skin team? Do you have to send HT some beer? :D

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 04:43:04 PM

No scoop, it's a Dora.

EDIT: We also have a very similar skin in-game, only with more green than brown.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Larry on May 08, 2007, 04:47:41 PM

Not to hijack the thread but did the 152 have the same engine that the Dora and Ju88 have?

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 04:58:35 PM

No, the scoop's on the other side, which leads me to think it's a different engine. It was a Jumo 213E.

Dora had the Jumo 213A.

I think they were pretty different beasts, as the Dora's Jumo topped out around 22k or so.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Fencer51 on May 08, 2007, 04:59:06 PM

Krusty,

Check this page out, it shows pictures of a TA 152 of JG301 under restoration.  

TA 152 H0 restouration link (http://www.thomasgenth.de/survivors/Ta152/ta152.html)

I would be very suspect of that paint scheme.  All my material shows a yellow/red RV band on the fusalage for JG301 and the pictures I have shows a black swastika on the tail not white.  The red would be more indicative of JG1.

Cheers.

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 05:13:13 PM

Thanks Fester. I've seen that link, but it's always nice to look at it again.

Well it came out of a book. It was fairly decent if somewhat survey-level for a book on German aircaft in WW2.

It was different enough from the normal JG301 aircraft that it gave me pause, but they author/artist must have had SOME source they based it on, otherwise they'd have just copied the JG301 schemes, which are well documented.

I wonder why the author/artist did it this way, but it really makes me think there might be some obscure test-version (prototype) that used this skin, even if only briefly.

Then, maybe I'm just hoping for a more interesting 152 to skin, eh? :cry

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Dux on May 08, 2007, 07:16:42 PM

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Originally posted by Larry
Dux how do you become a member of AH skin team? Do you have to send HT some beer? :D

I dunno, TK... I'm not on the Skinner Team, but on the CM Terrain Team.

I think to be a Skinner, you need to be asked. Waffle would know for sure. :)

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Fencer51 on May 08, 2007, 08:21:35 PM

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Originally posted by Krusty
Thanks Fester.  

:noid

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Larry on May 08, 2007, 08:28:21 PM

I think he had a brain fart.:p

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 08:55:48 PM

Yes, I do that a lot lately, I did mean Fencer,

From now on I'm not even going to read names, I'm just gonna say "Thanks red-nosed-p51-avatar guy!!"

:rofl

Title: Is this TA152 skin idea legit?
Post by: Serenity on May 08, 2007, 10:02:40 PM

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Originally posted by Larry
I think he had a brain fart.:p

"Krusty on math:..." You folks know the rest ;)