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Title: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: moot on July 11, 2009, 04:13:56 PM

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3445/3710323575_c72910ff0e_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: Larry on July 11, 2009, 04:20:09 PM

Can you get a smaller picture? :)

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: Kazaa on July 11, 2009, 04:21:27 PM

Quote from: Larry on July 11, 2009, 04:20:09 PM

Can you get a smaller picture? :)

I was so tempted to fire up photoshop and resize it by 10%, just for the lols.

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: moot on July 11, 2009, 04:22:37 PM

I guess Steve might have a larger version.  It's from his avatar.  It'd make a b****in skin to fly with.

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: Guppy35 on July 11, 2009, 04:28:28 PM

Tough to see any markings.  If I was guessing it's a photo of an early P51D-5 without the fin fillet taken on a photo flight in California from the factory.

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: Motherland on July 11, 2009, 04:30:36 PM

Quote from: moot on July 11, 2009, 04:22:37 PM

I guess Steve might have a larger version.  It's from his avatar.  It'd make a b****in skin to fly with.

Why? It's just a bare-bones P51...
Am I missing something?  :huh

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: moot on July 11, 2009, 04:36:54 PM

Just the anti glare black patch on a bare simple skin, with a matching prop hub.  That just looks plain good.  Don't remember any skins like that.

Dan - I think it's a die cast model.

Title: Re: Is this an actual WWII P-51 skin?
Post by: MakeT on July 12, 2009, 01:31:54 PM

It's a prototype testflight coloring. Each squadron added their own colorings and/or markings on the basic testflight scheme. No bare testflight scheme was used during wwII with P-51D-X model. Smallest addition to the testflight scheme was to paint single elevator stripes and single front wing stripes to wingroot with same color as the engine cowl color used. And of course plane identification markings. I dont recall which squadron used this paintscheme, but I will check if I can  find the reference on this one.