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Title: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on October 01, 2008, 11:35:37 AM

This is the F6F-3 of Lt Richard Stambook of VF-27. Prior to joining VF-27 he flew SBDs with VS-3 and F4Fs with VF-3 and VF-6. He claimed the last of his 10 kills six days before his carrier the USS Princeton was sunk by a lone Judy dive bomber.

There's a little bit of stretching across the extreme front of the cowling, which prevents me getting the mouth exactly right, but its pretty close.

The skin is up at http://www.ah-skins.com/ (http://www.ah-skins.com/) if you want to take a closer look.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/VF-27_F6F_SC2.jpg)

(http://www.ah-skins.com/skins/screenshot495.jpg)

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: RATTFINK on October 01, 2008, 01:04:49 PM

Wicked man!

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Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: whiteman on October 01, 2008, 01:42:44 PM

wow that was fast! :salute. any plan's for any more tri colors like your old VF-5 from the yorktown?

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: MjTalon on October 01, 2008, 03:55:52 PM

outstanding skin greebo! That's the same skin i have in my book "American Warplanes of WW2"   :salute

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: oboe on October 01, 2008, 04:52:25 PM

Looks Purrrr-fect!

Just an excellent skin all the way around.   Thanks, Greebo!

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: Fencer51 on October 01, 2008, 05:00:15 PM

Another excellent job.  :aok

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on October 02, 2008, 05:12:34 AM

Thanks guys. I'm not planning on doing any more tri-colour F6Fs at the moment. In most cases it would be pretty much the same skin with a different squadron number, as there was not a lot of personal or squadron variation allowed by the USN. Maybe if an AH squad wants a squad skin. Also I think I'm getting close to the number of F6F slots I can reasonably take up and there's other schemes I want to do more.

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: RATTFINK on October 02, 2008, 08:29:11 AM

Your callsign should be F6FGAWD ;)

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Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: Shifty on October 02, 2008, 09:19:17 AM

Very nice job!  :aok

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: jocko- on October 02, 2008, 10:27:08 AM

Very nice job!

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: SlapShot on October 08, 2008, 03:04:21 PM

Your efforts and artistic expertise is MUCH APPRECIATED !!!

Title: Re: VF-27 Hellcat
Post by: splitatom on October 08, 2008, 07:28:36 PM

yay my favorite old f6 skin is back :D :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)