Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Fencer51 on October 02, 2008, 10:59:05 AM
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I will post the unit info when I get home, I could not get it to post last night.
(http://www.51hangar.net/skins/B25C_D1.jpg)
(http://www.51hangar.net/skins/B25C_D2.jpg)
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BADASS!
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Truly beautiful, Fencer! :aok
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My new favorite skin :)
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NICE! WTG <S> :salute
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487th BS / 340th BG, Egypt December 1942.
And the upper turret green frame has been fixed since I took these shots.
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Beauty of a skin Fencer, your VVS skin is my absolute favorite though.
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:aok Very nice, always liked that colour, too bad it won't be in the game fast enough for the next FSO.
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Very nice, Fencer. Always loved the yellow surround insignia.
One point, IIRC, the yellow surround was on the fuselage only; not the wing insignia. Don't have resources with me to confirm that but it seems to me its come up in this forum before, I think when I was doing my early P-38 Sad Sack...
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That's a nice skin Fencer. :aok Maybe you could add a shadow to the rear of the cowl cooling flaps though.
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Oboe it makes no sense to outline an insignia on the fusalage and not the wings. I have seen alot of other aircraft with the yellow on the wings. P-47Ds in England for example. Until I see some proof I am going to have to call that a 42 on the newly established KBS meter. :lol
Lemme know when you find your documentation.
On it Greebo.
Thanks All.
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Oboe it makes no sense to outline an insignia on the fusalage and not the wings. I have seen alot of other aircraft with the yellow on the wings. P-47Ds in England for example. Until I see some proof I am going to have to call that a 42 on the newly established KBS meter. :lol
Lemme know when you find your documentation.
On it Greebo.
Thanks All.
I do believe Oboe is correct in what he's seen. It may be an in between, or caught in the middle of painting bit, but I believe I've seen that on the 25s too. At work at the moment, but will check when I get home.
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I do believe Oboe is correct in what he's seen. It may be an in between, or caught in the middle of painting bit, but I believe I've seen that on the 25s too. At work at the moment, but will check when I get home.
Like you are some expert, what you got some sort of extensive library or something? Look, the profile shows it with a yellow ringed star on the upper wing. Profiles are the bestest of the sources.
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Like you are some expert, what you got some sort of extensive library or something? Look, the profile shows it with a yellow ringed star on the upper wing. Profiles are the bestest of the sources.
Damn you! When you are right, you are right! :)
It's gonna bug me now til I get home !
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Let me know what you find, I will modify to suit. After all, you and Oboe are twin engined bomber experts! :aok
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Oboe it makes no sense to outline an insignia on the fusalage and not the wings. I have seen alot of other aircraft with the yellow on the wings. P-47Ds in England for example. Until I see some proof I am going to have to call that a 42 on the newly established KBS meter. :lol
Lemme know when you find your documentation.
On it Greebo.
Thanks All.
I absolutely agree it makes no sense; here are the profiles I have seen the lead me to believe the yellow was left off the wing insignias:
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/SadSack1.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/P-39M-North-Africa-1943.jpg)
However, I found comment in a thread when I did a search on "yellow surround" in the Skinning forum.
According to Air Force Colors Volume 2 ETO & MTO the yellow surrounds were on all 4 stars. The photos they show, do seem to indicate that as standard.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,226113.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,226113.0.html)
I do like the look of the yellow surround on all of the insignias better.
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:lol
(nice work as usual btw. :))
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I think we've established via photo evidence that you probably can't go wrong no matter what you do on a desert B25 :)
No yellow surround, star and circle on both wings.
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/bothwings.jpg)
No yellow surround, star and circle on one wing
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Nosurround.jpg)
Yellow around the wing star and circle not on the fuselage
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Justwing.jpg)
Yellow around the fuselage and wing star and circle
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/wingandfus.jpg)
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Just to add to the confusion and because I didn't notice that the bird with the yellow surround on the wing but not fuselage is the same bird as in the lead of the first photo with star and circle on both wings.
Makes you wonder if it got the yellow and lost one star and circle?
A bit clearer view showing the outline on the wing but not fuselage. Must have been an ongoing bit to get the yellow on while ops were flown
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/WingYellow.jpg)
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Bit off topic, but there are bombs slung under wing in the last photos. Is that a standard/factory fitting or a field modificiation?
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Nice skin.