FWIW, I looked in the skins listing and this one is not in there. Perhaps Lyric1 can find it. :)
CV-10 Yorktown.
VF-1 then became VF-5.
Plane has a white stripe on tail and possibly a number above it not quite sure. My pick is this aircraft and at some point the red was painted over.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/uwm7n.jpg)
(http://i66.tinypic.com/xdv5uf.jpg)
Title: Re: F6F Skin Question
Post by: Greebo on January 28, 2018, 01:47:35 AM
It would be no problem for me to skin that, just change the numbers, add the stripe and fiddle with the weathering a bit. But that's the problem really, it is no challenge to skin and would look no different at a glance to half a dozen other F6F skins.
Title: Re: F6F Skin Question
Post by: Vraciu on January 28, 2018, 02:09:36 AM
It would be no problem for me to skin that, just change the numbers, add the stripe and fiddle with the weathering a bit. But that's the problem really, it is no challenge to skin and would look no different at a glance to half a dozen other F6F skins.
Well, that's part of the problem with the Hellcat. They're kinda' ubiquitous in their appearance.
Those frame grabs Lyric took might make it worth doing for you. Here are a couple I found.
I was able to do some light digging after he got me the facts on this airplane.
"The famous "Fighting Lady" footage of a landing Hellcat crashing into one of Yorktown's 5-inch twin mounts then breaking up into four large pieces is of a Fighting Five F6F-3 flown by Ensign Bob Black. ENS Black's hydraulics had been shot away by flak and he had no ability to lower his flaps but was told to crash aboard anyway. The crash took place on March 30, 1944 after a raid on Palau. ENS Black walked away from the wreck with nothing more than a slight laceration on his forehead (Reynolds, pg. 117)."