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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Guppy35 on July 03, 2006, 06:52:04 PM
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Only two I've found in my stuff so far.
First is Silver Dollar.
The profile shows it after it had turrets removed and was being used as a "hack" but the markings would be correct for it's operational time as it clearly has the mission symbols etc. The black rudder was late war 100th too.
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Next is "Super Rabbit" You can never have too much Bugs Bunny :)
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Blown up scan of the nose art for Super Rabbit.
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Basic late war 100th BG markings
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From above. I'll keep looking to see if I can find enough on an OD/Gray bird too
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Um, why the hell did the remove the turrets from that top B-17?!? that looks RETARDED
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Originally posted by Reynolds
Um, why the hell did the remove the turrets from that top B-17?!? that looks RETARDED
Read the caption :)
IT was involved in an accident and declared salvage. But the 100th guys repaired it and used it for running errands, joyriding etc. Take the turrets off and it's a lot lighter and obviously if it's not flying combat it sure didn't need turrets.
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I guess it does make sense. And i will say, without those turrets, it does look rather beutiful. I only wish we could get a view out of that rear-ventral-window-thing. That would be awesome!
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Here's 4 pages of them:
B-17s of the 100th BG (http://www.markstyling.com/100th_b17s1.htm)
22 side profiles...
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Thanks. I think the F looks pretty. If only we could have another gun in the dorsal window...
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Originally posted by Bruno
Here's 4 pages of them:
B-17s of the 100th BG (http://www.markstyling.com/100th_b17s1.htm)
22 side profiles...
Great stuff Bruno. Thanks :)
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Is the 100BG the group that "Thunderbird" belonged to?
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Yeah it is, why is someone doing her already? If so I will do another group, the 306th and 303rd are also well known groups.
btw Thanks Bruno, I found that after your previous link in the other topic.
Cheers.
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quah!
That is a must have skin !
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Originally posted by Kazaa
quah!
That is a must have skin !
Which one?
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Both lol :aok
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Originally posted by Fencer51
Yeah it is, why is someone doing her already?
Not that I know of. I'm kinda surprised at that, though. Thunderbird is kind of an icon.
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Originally posted by Krusty
Is the 100BG the group that "Thunderbird" belonged to?
Thunderbird is a 303rd BG B17G
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Well I can do Thunderbird I guess, just looking for a B-17 to do after I get these 3 or so 109G6s done.
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Not exactly a request, Fencer, more of a musing. Pick one you can really get passionate about -- that's the best way to ensure you do a good job
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I think we need a 100th BG bird. So either "Picadilly Lilly (I or II), or Mason and Dixon, or Heaven Sent are moving toward the top.
Thanks for the profiles everyone, I found the offical website for the 100th BG and it is a wonderful resource.
Let me finish this 109G6 I am working on then I am going to start a B-17.
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Quah!...they both do look really fantastic !
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Originally posted by Fencer51
I think we need a 100th BG bird. So either "Picadilly Lilly (I or II), or Mason and Dixon, or Heaven Sent are moving toward the top.
Thanks for the profiles everyone, I found the offical website for the 100th BG and it is a wonderful resource.
Let me finish this 109G6 I am working on then I am going to start a B-17.
Then I'd suggest Picadilly Lilly II. The original Lilly was an F that Bernie Lay rode co-pilot on during the Regensburg/Schweinfurt raid, that was the inspiration for some of the combat sequences in Twelve O'Clock High.
Lilly II is a G model so she'd fit both for a 100th bird and that 12 O'Clock High connection. Just my opinion of course :)
three images of Lilly II
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Now some color
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And someone's side profile of the nose of Lilly II
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Lilly II is a G model so she'd fit both for a 100th bird and that 12 O'Clock High connection. Just my opinion of course :)
three images of Lilly II
Yeah I saw that, that's why I was thinking about doing her. :aok
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Well I decided to leave Piccadilly Lily for the future F model I am sure we will eventually get.
So I am going to do "Our Gal Sal" B-17G of the 351st Squadron of the 100th BG. This plane completed over 130 missions and was just as famous as the original Piccadilly Lily.
She was the only survivor of the 351st BS to make it back to Thorpe Abbotts on March 6, 1944 out of 16 aircraft launched on the first Berlin raid. 10 AC were shot down with 4 others diverting to emergency fields in England and 1 to Sweden.
Guppy, in Keith Ferris's painting shown below he has white leading edges. I cannot find at what date that was implemented. Do you have any idea?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/Shoens1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/Ourgalcolref.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/noseartslides23.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/Clash_Over_Haseleunne.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/013FortressesEngaged.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/7_43_1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/1_25_1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/bassetleader/3_03_2.jpg)
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I bet Dan can fill us in on the details but late in the war they were removing the deicing boots. The artist probably saw a photo of the plane before they had repainted the leading edges. If you see a photo with black leading edges, the deicing boots are still installed.
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Easycor, it depends on the plane. Ruby's Raiders was factory fresh in late '44, and it had deicing boots on. I think that's something you just have to look for on every B17 you skin, and do it case-by-case.
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Right, the contracts called for deicing boots so that's what the factory delivered to the field where they were promptly removed by the crews.
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What's interesting is you can find photos of individual aircraft with the de-icer boots on and then gone so it was clearly on the fly so to speak. Here's the well known 303rd BG B17F "Knockout Dropper" from above showing all the de-icer boots gone.
The more I look at the F models the more I wish we had em in AH too. It's really the 'classic' B17 look to me, and they flew much combat in the Pacific which the G models didn't so it essentially wipes out that source of skins, as well as the early ETO and MTO F models like Knockout Dropper.
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And a nice production unpainted B17G with the boots still in place.
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I would fly the F over the G any day, for purely asthetic reasons. But, if you petition for it, you have MY vote! :D