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Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Citabria on April 21, 2000, 11:58:00 PM

Natedog, superfly,
any chance of getting a good metal finish for these aircraft?

they look a little grey right now   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

if not no problem   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) just a suggestion. thanks for all the hard work
  (http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/reviews/tuskegeefighters/Fig11.jpg)  

[This message has been edited by Citabria (edited 04-22-2000).]

Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Bloody on April 22, 2000, 03:54:00 AM

Nice plane.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)


Bloody

Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Vermillion on April 24, 2000, 08:22:00 AM

Citabria I think you have been going to too many airshows  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Just kidding.

I have talked to guys that maintain these planes and they tell me that it takes hundreds and hundreds of hours to maintain that nice shiny "good metal finish" that we are use to seeing. Not something I expect the ground crews took much time to worry about in wartime.

If you want to see what a real bare aluminum skinned aircraft looks like, go to one of these places that restore aircraft or an air museum that has a plane thats been sitting outside a while.

Its a pale whitish grey color, that actually looks even more like paint than our current model of P-51's and such.

I guess it just goes back to the old arguement of "Do we want to see showroom quality  aircraft, or war weary aircraft in our models".

Neither is right or wrong, its just a personal preference  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
Carpe Jugulum
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"

Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Robert on April 27, 2000, 10:09:00 AM

ummm where did this picture come from? i guess i want to know what game i mean .

Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Pongo on April 27, 2000, 10:33:00 AM

Verm..
Are you sure that looking at 60 year old planes is a good way to decide what a 2 month old fighter looked like operationaly?
Lots of thos mustangs were pretty shiny...
Oxidization is greatly effected by time of course.
Some would have been quite banged up. But we have squadron commanders and wing comanders planes here...theys were pretty imaculate.


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Pongo
The Wrecking Crew

Title: metal finish on (B-17 P-51 P38)
Post by: Citabria on April 27, 2000, 11:13:00 AM

amazingly this picture is from an add on pack for old Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator call "Tuskegee Fighters.


so I know if they can do that in CFS they can do it in AH  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)