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Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: oboe on December 26, 2007, 04:08:14 PM

Was thinking about skinning Erv Ethell's "Tangerine", which I recall was a ordinary looking OD with printed noseart and no graphic.   But a little web research revealed this late-J and L model painted as Erv's bird, with a nose graphic.

(http://www.kazoku.org/xp-38n/walkaround/tillamook/dsc05419_med.jpg)

Is this an example of artistic license on the restoration?   Or are is the noseart accurate, just should be on an earlier model 38?

Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 26, 2007, 04:46:32 PM

Tangerine was a P38F

She went down with another pilot

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/tangerine3.jpg)

Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 26, 2007, 04:47:51 PM

I have a decal sheet for Tangerine for a 38 model not built.

Here's the direction sheet followed by the decals.  Note the squadron codes for the 48th FS, 14th FG
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Ethell381.jpg)

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Tangerine2.jpg)

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Tangerine.jpg)

Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 26, 2007, 04:50:31 PM

Note that the restored bird has the yellow trim that apparently wasn't on the real Tangerine.  it also lacks the squadron codes that were carried on Tangerine.

Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: oboe on December 26, 2007, 05:28:16 PM

Ask and ye shall receive - thanks, Dan.   Decals and everything!  

I should ask - are we allowed to skin F's on the G model now?   My skin forum search revealed a thread discussing this but the answer back then was no - skins must be only for the correct model of plane only.

I'd like to do the original Itsy Bitsy and Tangerine too, but neither of them are Gs.    I have asked HTC about doing J-25s as Ls, but never got a response...

Title: Erv Ethell's Tangerine?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 26, 2007, 06:01:12 PM

I believe so.  Both Itsy Bitsy and Tangerine were being flown alongside G models.