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Title: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on September 28, 2008, 08:37:46 PM: The P-39Q of Pokryshkin!

(http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/foto/pokri2.jpg)

'Call Code- 100' P-39Q

55IAP (I think) :rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on September 29, 2008, 02:13:15 AM: I think I have a photo of that plane. Will look when I get home.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on September 29, 2008, 12:59:43 PM: Would i be right in thinking that there wouldn't be red stars on the top of the wings but only underneath?
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 04:46:40 PM: If you look at our current P-39Q, it'll show you. :aok

I think its on the Top on one side and the bottom on the other :rock
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on September 29, 2008, 05:09:31 PM: Quote from: lyric1 on September 29, 2008, 02:13:15 AM
I think I have a photo of that plane. Will look when I get home.
Not a lot of detail unfortunately. (http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2293/personpokryshkin4nu0.th.jpg) (http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=personpokryshkin4nu0.jpg)(http://img443.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 05:12:22 PM: Yea, it's hard to find a lot of information on these russian pilots. :(

But in my opinion, a P-39 is no P-39 without the skin of the #1 allied pilot which flew it :rock
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on September 29, 2008, 05:22:27 PM: Quote from: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 05:12:22 PM
Yea, it's hard to find a lot of information on these russian pilots. :(

But in my opinion, a P-39 is no P-39 without the skin of the #1 allied pilot which flew it :rock
Ask & you shall receive. Click on the link on his name. :D http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=6222
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 05:32:10 PM: Refer to the top, I remembered his name :D
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: The Fugitive on September 29, 2008, 06:01:36 PM: Quote from: lyric1 on September 29, 2008, 05:22:27 PM
Ask & you shall receive. Click on the link on his name. :D http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=6222

If you if you click on the link, THEN click on his name there is a big long write-up about the pilot.

You said....

Quote from: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 05:12:22 PM
Yea, it's hard to find a lot of information on these russian pilots. :(

But in my opinion, a P-39 is no P-39 without the skin of the #1 allied pilot which flew it :rock

....so he found that info for you.

guess they don't teach reading comprehension any more :(
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on September 30, 2008, 08:46:48 AM: Quote from: rogerdee on September 29, 2008, 12:59:43 PM
Would i be right in thinking that there wouldn't be red stars on the top of the wings but only underneath?
For what it is worth a painting of another plane from this squadron. (http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2517/p39rechkalovue2.th.jpg) (http://img54.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p39rechkalovue2.jpg)(http://img54.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: jocko- on September 30, 2008, 10:12:06 AM: I've read that a lot of the P-39s had the red stars hastily painted on at the Bell factory (over top of the existing blue and white US markings) before delivery. The Russians would either obliterate the upper markings or ignore them.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on September 30, 2008, 05:45:53 PM: Quote from: jocko- on September 30, 2008, 10:12:06 AM
I've read that a lot of the P-39s had the red stars hastily painted on at the Bell factory (over top of the existing blue and white US markings) before delivery. The Russians would either obliterate the upper markings or ignore them.
This must have been when they painted them to Russian specs. (http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4635/58746923b50728e1ed2841cbs6.th.jpg) (http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=58746923b50728e1ed2841cbs6.jpg)(http://img294.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: jocko- on September 30, 2008, 06:31:24 PM: Yeah, I would imagine they eventually got the markings right, that's a P-63 which didn't even start production 'til October 1943.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 12:27:47 AM: Ahh, the good ol' Sexy P-63. (and I saw the write up, thanks! I didn't see that :o )
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on October 01, 2008, 07:06:10 AM: Quote from: jocko- on September 30, 2008, 06:31:24 PM
that's a P-63 which didn't even start production 'til October 1943.
p-63's you say? Comrade Stalin might take issue with you :D From a link back in this thread---> Pokryshkin took a great liking to the P-39 Airacobra fighter he was assigned, particularly in regards to the ample fire power. He modified his aircraft so that a single button could simultaneously fire all forward weapons mounted on it, thus tremendously adding the destructive power of each salvo. Several times during the war, directives from Moscow requested his units to consider switching to flying Russian-built aircraft such as the La-5 or Yak fighters, but he turned down the request each time. There existed a rumor that in 1944, his unit secretly switched to flying the P-63 Kingcobra fighters, another design from the United States exported to Russia via Lend-Lease that was not supposed to be used in Europe (instead, they were to be readied in the far east for use after the eventual declaration of war of Russia on Japan), though none of the Russian state records support such a claim.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 07:35:21 AM: Yea, but there was a lot of reports from the field of them flying P-63s. A whole lot. :rock

Of germans shooting them down, of germans fighting them. It wouldn't suprise me if they did use the P-63.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on October 01, 2008, 09:41:26 AM: Quote from: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 07:35:21 AM
Yea, but there was a lot of reports from the field of them flying P-63s. A whole lot. :rock

Of germans shooting them down, of germans fighting them. It wouldn't suprise me if they did use the P-63.
For some reason I don't think these King Cobras are going to the UK? (http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/9008/58746923b50728e1ed2841cxe3.th.jpg) (http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=58746923b50728e1ed2841cxe3.jpg)(http://img356.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on October 01, 2008, 01:30:14 PM: the problem is 29004 is a p39n not a Q.
I am not sure id HTC would let it be skinned on a p39Q
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 06:49:19 PM: Eh, send Skuzzy an Email maybe? From what I've been told, P-39N skins can also go on the P-39Q, but I havent clarified that.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: SuBWaYCH on October 01, 2008, 09:14:25 PM: Quote from: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 06:49:19 PM
Eh, send Skuzzy an Email maybe? From what I've been told, P-39N skins can also go on the P-39Q, but I havent clarified that.

Truekill did a P-39N skin I requested onto a P-39Q. It does work.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,233439.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,233439.0.html)
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 01, 2008, 10:58:54 PM: Oh, okay. Cool. :rock
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on October 03, 2008, 01:31:06 PM: ill have a look and see what i can come up with if i get time to enjoy my rest
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 04, 2008, 12:14:13 PM: Quote from: lyric1 on October 01, 2008, 09:41:26 AM
For some reason I don't think these King Cobras are going to the UK? (http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/9008/58746923b50728e1ed2841cxe3.th.jpg) (http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=58746923b50728e1ed2841cxe3.jpg)(http://img356.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

It means the Russians used them on the front. There were reports of Alexandr Pokryshkin's squad getting P-63s in 1944.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on October 06, 2008, 12:39:03 PM: Well this is something i thrown togeather but not yet finished

(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h203/rogerdee_2006/poly1.jpg)
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h203/rogerdee_2006/poly2.jpg)
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h203/rogerdee_2006/poly3.jpg)

so what you think
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: lyric1 on October 06, 2008, 04:09:20 PM: Heading in the right direction I think the white out line around the red stars needs to be thicker & more vibrant on the nose section.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 06, 2008, 11:55:22 PM: Rogerdee, it looks AWESOME!

Edit: Nevermind, it's perfect.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 07, 2008, 07:37:27 AM: Sorry for the double post, but I think you have to switch the insignia around on it, making the blue outline on the OTHER side.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 22, 2008, 05:56:27 PM: I know I'm bumping this, but how's it looking Rogerdee?
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on October 29, 2008, 06:07:27 AM: Still the same not done any skinning for a few weeks as been trying to get my new joystick
working properly,and ben looking at other things.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: Fencer51 on October 29, 2008, 11:03:52 AM: Roger is that an original skin or did you paint over the default skin, adding some stuff? It looks like someone put stickers on a model where the markings are.
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: rogerdee on October 30, 2008, 10:06:13 AM: no its all redrawn and re painted
Title: Re: This HAS to be skinned!
Post by: Squire on October 30, 2008, 12:04:20 PM: Remember the "blue disks" will be standard sized USAAF (like on the P-39D default), overpainted with the Red Star.