Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: oboe on February 10, 2018, 11:32:50 PM
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This 16th GIAP P-39Q was flown by Konstantin Sukhov. Sukhov joined the Red Army in 1940 and flew his first combat flights during March 1943 in I-16 and I-153 aircraft while assigned to 84th IAP. In May '43, he and twelve other pilots, together with six P-39s, were transferred to the 16th GIAP, where he flew Airacobras until the end of the war. He shot down 22 enemy planes in total and was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union after the war.
Lend-Lease Airacobras P-39 came to Soviet Union wearing either Bell's transport marking (red star in white circle), in which case there was no need to paint red stars, or with the standard USAF marking - then red stars were painted over white stars while blue discs were either kept or overpainted with green. Sukhov's aircraft retained its Bell markings.
16 GIAP is the featured P-39 outfit in this month's Battle of the Western Kuban Aces High scenario.
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Beautiful work.
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Looks great! <S>
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Great looking skin Oboe, nicely weathered. :aok
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:aok
First non sugar glazed doughnut P-39 skin.
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Thanks, guys. I submitted it this evening. I understand Skuzzy is planning to do another skin release this week, so it'd be great if it gets reviewed and approved and makes it in for the scenario this Saturday. Not sure how many other skins could be in the queue with a skin pack release just having occurred last week, but I think Devil505 had a 110G that just missed the cut-off?
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Yeah. I'll be submitting that Monday night along with a 110C nightfighter.