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Title: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on May 20, 2014, 02:41:54 PM
Curtiss P-40E-1 Warhawk. 1st Lt. Dallas A. Clinger. 16th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group. Kweilin China, October 1942.

(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/DropkickYankees/Aces%20High/AvgP402_zps56e254b2.png~original) (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/DropkickYankees/media/Aces%20High/AvgP402_zps56e254b2.png.html)
This shark, swallow you whole.
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/DropkickYankees/Aces%20High/AvgP401_zpsa8ed031c.png~original) (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/DropkickYankees/media/Aces%20High/AvgP401_zpsa8ed031c.png.html)
The head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/DropkickYankees/Aces%20High/AvgP403_zps056a426c.png~original) (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/DropkickYankees/media/Aces%20High/AvgP403_zps056a426c.png.html)
This was no boat accident!
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Dragon Tamer on May 20, 2014, 02:55:50 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Saxman on May 20, 2014, 03:22:49 PM
What color did you use for the text underneath? I mentioned this before in the other P-40 thread, but after doing some digging around it sounds like by the wartime period it was actually the same color blue as the roundel (ANA605 Insignia Blue). It looks black in the pic.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: SmokinLoon on May 20, 2014, 04:25:45 PM
I like it!   :aok
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: caldera on May 20, 2014, 04:28:16 PM
LOVE IT!!!!  :x

Thank You Sir!  :salute
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Greebo on May 20, 2014, 05:02:27 PM
That is very nice Devil.  :aok
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Nefarious on May 20, 2014, 07:57:50 PM
Very Impressive!
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on May 20, 2014, 09:16:03 PM
Thanks guys.

What color did you use for the text underneath? I mentioned this before in the other P-40 thread, but after doing some digging around it sounds like by the wartime period it was actually the same color blue as the roundel (ANA605 Insignia Blue). It looks black in the pic.
Can you find where you saw this? It's very difficult to distinguish black from insignia blue on the undersides.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Saxman on May 20, 2014, 09:36:42 PM
Thanks guys.
Can you find where you saw this? It's very difficult to distinguish black from insignia blue on the undersides.

It's part of Spec 98-24105-P, information available here:

http://librarum.org/book/31199/37

"Their markings were to conform to Spec 98-24105-P and amendments, except that the marking 'U.S. Army' on the under surface of the wing was to be applied with blue, Shade 47 of Bulletin No. 41. All other exterior markings were to be applied with either red, black or blue, Shades 45, 44 and 47 of Bulletin No. 41."

Shade 47 is the same as ANA605 Insignia Blue per Bulletin No. 157.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on May 20, 2014, 09:40:58 PM
cool.
thanks.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: GhostCDB on May 20, 2014, 10:32:03 PM
cool.
thanks.

 :lol
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: perdue3 on May 20, 2014, 11:13:08 PM
:lol

What is so funny Ghost?
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on May 20, 2014, 11:28:40 PM
Corrected stencil now in Insignia Blue.
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/DropkickYankees/Aces%20High/AvgP404_zps40ce1011.png~original) (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/DropkickYankees/media/Aces%20High/AvgP404_zps40ce1011.png.html)

:lol
Yeah, I'm confused here too. What's so funny? He provided some good documentation on the regulations, and I thanked him for it.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: lyric1 on May 21, 2014, 12:46:22 AM
 :aok
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: GhostCDB on May 21, 2014, 09:24:26 AM
What is so funny Ghost?

Yeah, I'm confused here too. What's so funny? He provided some good documentation on the regulations, and I thanked him for it.

The thank you, it seemed sarcastic. 

I don't know.

Don't mind me.

 :lol
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Spikes on May 21, 2014, 10:49:58 PM
The thank you, it seemed sarcastic. 

I don't know.

Don't mind me.

 :lol
(http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz99/Chew64/sarcasm20meter.jpg)
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on May 21, 2014, 10:55:42 PM
The thank you, it seemed sarcastic. 

I don't know.

Don't mind me.

 :lol
Gotcha.

(http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz99/Chew64/sarcasm20meter.jpg)
:rofl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSy5mEcmgwU
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: caldera on September 03, 2014, 02:13:15 PM
Curtiss P-40E-1 Warhawk. 1st Lt. Dallas A. Clinger. 16th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group. Kweilin China, October 1942.


Another month without this skin.   :cry
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Devil 505 on September 03, 2014, 05:39:59 PM
You'll have a happy Octoberfest. I promise.  :cheers:
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Citabria on September 05, 2014, 04:32:19 AM
that skin looks familiar i could have sworn i've seen it before on an old ah p40e a decade ago. :)

nice work too. glad people are moving away from tank rivets slowly. less you make the panels and rivets visible and the more you add panel deformation and stress to the texture map to simulate thin aluminum skin of a plane the more realism it will have.
Title: Re: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Post by: Slash27 on September 16, 2014, 10:38:40 AM
Very nice Devil :aok