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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on March 22, 2014, 05:38:10 AM
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ML 52 requested a 332nd FG Jug skin and I've made this one based on a photo that Seadog36 posted.
The 332nd FG was unique in the USAAF in that its pilots were all black. The US military was racially segregated at this time and the 332nd were subject to racial discrimination from both inside and outside the service. They were deployed to Africa and later Italy and flew P-39 and P-40s on mostly ground support missions. In June 1944 they received hand-me-down P-47Ds and began a new role escorting USAAF bombers. In July the old P-47s were traded in for new P-51s.
This aircraft was originally part of the 64th FS, 57th FG and still carried that squadron's logo on the nose. The only change made by the 332nd FG was to paint the tail red, the group's new ID marking.
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots5/332nd_FG_P-47D-11_SC1.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots5/332nd_FG_P-47D-11_SC2.jpg)
(http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/P47-57FG-GR45_zps5ee2fa59.jpg.html)
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:aok
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purty Greebs :aok
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More D11 skins!! :O :x :aok :salute
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Sweet Greebo!
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:aok
Any P-47 skin is a good skin!
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Man, what detailing. Do you do this for a living? I think you post a skin every other day!
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Great job! <S>
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Nice one Greebo
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Outstanding.
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:aok looks great
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Superb! You should submit the same skin without the red tail as a 57th FG skin. I would fly them both. :cheers:
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Nailed it.
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With very little modification you could make a 56th FG Silver Lady:
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/3_7_b1_zpse80eb43d.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/3_7_b1_zpse80eb43d.jpg.html)
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/SL_zpsfc508aed.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/SL_zpsfc508aed.jpg.html)
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/SilverLadyCrew_zps2d500e7d.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/SilverLadyCrew_zps2d500e7d.jpg.html)
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Actually, I was kind of hoping to do a P-47 skin myself. Maybe Greebo wouldn't mind passing up on one? :bolt:
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Better get on it Player1, Greebo's skin factory is producing amazing results on overdrive!
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I think I will pass on this one. We already have six 56th FG P-47D-11 skins and when this 332nd one is added there will be only six slots left open for D-11s in the game.
For the 56th FG what I'd rather do is a P-47M skin, as apart from the default 63rd FS one I have yet to skin one of those. So if anyone can find me at least one good RL photo (not just a profile) of a 61st or 62nd FS P-47M that's not already been skinned I'll do that.
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I think I will pass on this one. We already have six 56th FG P-47D-11 skins and when this 332nd one is added there will be only six slots left open for D-11s in the game.
For the 56th FG what I'd rather do is a P-47M skin, as apart from the default 63rd FS one I have yet to skin one of those. So if anyone can find me at least one good RL photo (not just a profile) of a 61st or 62nd FS P-47M that's not already been skinned I'll do that.
Here is an alternative for your bare metal base, though I understand nose checks/diamonds are very difficult to do with the cowl shape warping. You didn't seem to have a problem doing the default 78th FG cowl though:
353rd FG Slybirds LH-B Auchincloss Lt. Bayard The New Yorker. Pretty sure there are no 353rd 47s in the game. I had a full fuselage photo at one point but all I can dig up at the moment is this A2A skin. Either way, I'l try to find it again.
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/5810506169_118b976799_o_zpsfe993099.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/5810506169_118b976799_o_zpsfe993099.jpg.html)
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/repaint_zpsb5a8cdda.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/repaint_zpsb5a8cdda.jpg.html)
Here is a nice color, unmarked late D which looks like it is over near Republic field on Long Island.
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/1456598_606521452719129_1588083361_n_zps114e20f9.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/1456598_606521452719129_1588083361_n_zps114e20f9.jpg.html)
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Sorry but on all the AH P-47s the bottom part of the cowling is stretched vertically. As the stretched area is slightly less than one square tall, the 78th FG's vertically divided square checkers can be made to work. However the 353rd FG's diamond checkers can't as most of the bottom row of diamonds on each side just smears vertically.
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Your Redtail Squadron skin looks great in the game~ colors are not too overbearing and the insignias are very crisp, especially your Black Scorpions emblem. :aok :aok :aok :salute A joy to fly!
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How about this beauty Greebo? You have the bare metal skin, and the checkered nose from your 78thFG 54thfs~
P-47D-23-RA flown by Lt. Richard D. Stark of the 82nd FS and was lost on 3 September 1944.
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/10300444_635634316507313_8359009054132508509_n_zpsf978eb11.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/10300444_635634316507313_8359009054132508509_n_zpsf978eb11.jpg.html)
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I can skin that Seadog, but not for a few weeks.
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This is going to be very cool Greebo :cheers:
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(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/57_zps8fef6491.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/57_zps8fef6491.jpg.html)
You might be interested to know, when the 332nd converted to P-51s this plane went back to the 57th FG~