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Title: Maj. Roswell Freedman - P-51B (E9-V) - 361st FG, 376th FS - AH3 Update
Post by: Vraciu on October 24, 2017, 06:56:43 PM

This aircraft, P-51B-15-NA "Mustang" 42-106945 coded E9*V, was flown by Maj. Roswell Freedman and assigned to the 376th Fighter Squadron of the 361st Fighter Group ("Yellowjackets").   Not a lot of info on him out there but I did find a partial list of his awards.


Air Medal with 13 oak leaf clusters (2 silver, 3 bronze)
Air Medal with 4 oak leaf clusters
Distinguished Flying Cross
Korean Service Medal
Purple Heart
World War II Victory Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 3 bronze stars


He earned that Purple Heart on a strafing mission in WWII.   He recovered and went back to flying again.

The airplane at some point was called "SMOKEY" but I haven't found an image of the nose art and all the photos of the airplane I've seen do not have it on the nose anywhere.

I used some of what I learned on IV-C and "Janie Girl" to make this one a lot better than it was even though I've already worked on it some for AH3.  Actually, in some ways this skin was a fork in the road for me on how to make better metal effects.   I decided to go the other direction and that proved to be the right move--though it took a long time for me to circle back around to that realization.  I didn't reverse course so the metal effects are still different than those skins on the other fork, but the lessons learned were applicable.


(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=390013.0;attach=28617)

(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=390013.0;attach=28619)

(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=390013.0;attach=28621)

(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=390013.0;attach=28629)

Title: Re: Maj. Roswell Freedman - P-51B (E9-V) - 361st FG, 376th FS - AH3 Update
Post by: Vraciu on October 24, 2017, 07:02:09 PM

A look back...


In AH2 We started like this:

(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=377161.0;attach=23629)



My first attempt in AH3 to update it looked like this:

(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=385955.0;attach=27099)


Quite a change...

Title: Re: Maj. Roswell Freedman - P-51B (E9-V) - 361st FG, 376th FS - AH3 Update
Post by: Devil 505 on October 24, 2017, 10:12:50 PM

Nice improvement.

Title: Re: Maj. Roswell Freedman - P-51B (E9-V) - 361st FG, 376th FS - AH3 Update
Post by: Vraciu on October 25, 2017, 06:50:19 AM

Quote from: Devil 505 on October 24, 2017, 10:12:50 PM

Nice improvement.

Thanks, man.   Baby steps.