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Title: Coral Sea Wildcat
Post by: Greebo on March 31, 2019, 07:16:00 AM: This is the second skin that Perdue requested for a Coral Sea event.

From February 1942 this Wildcat numbered F-5 was the personal aircraft of Lt Noel Gayler of VF-3 who scored four kills in it. At this time VF-3 were based on the USS Lexington while the carrier's normal squadron VF-2 were in Hawaii converting from the Buffalo to the Wildcat. In April VF-2 were reinstated as the Lexington's fighter squadron who received a large number of VF-3's aircraft and pilots to make up their numbers, including Noel Gayler and F-5. Gayler received a new aircraft numbered F-13 while his old one was assigned to another ex-VF-3 pilot, Lt Albert Vorse.

Sailing to the South Pacific USS Lexington together with USS Yorktown engaged the Japanese carriers Zuikaku and Shokaku on May 8th in the climax to the Battle of the Coral Sea. That morning Lt Vorse shot down two Zeroes while escorting a strike on the Japanese carriers, then destroyed two flying boats on his way back. Later he downed a couple of Val dive bombers who had just attacked the Lexington. That evening Vorse and Gayler were both evacuated from the critically-damaged USS Lexington before it sank, but F-5 went down with the ship. Nearly 76 years later both the wreck of the Lexington and F-5 were discovered on the sea bed by an expedition led by Paul Allen. F-5 still carried its VF-3 badges and Gayler's name and four kill markings.

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Title: Re: Coral Sea Wildcat
Post by: Devil 505 on March 31, 2019, 08:22:53 AM: fantastic work.
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Post by: Vraciu on March 31, 2019, 10:33:28 AM: A ten-victory Wildcat! Nice.
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Post by: lyric1 on March 31, 2019, 11:58:36 AM: :aok
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Post by: Arlo on March 31, 2019, 01:23:01 PM: Very nice.
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Post by: puller on March 31, 2019, 02:56:35 PM: :aok
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Post by: DaddyAce on March 31, 2019, 10:22:23 PM: Very nice Greebo! :aok
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Post by: Puma44 on April 06, 2019, 08:47:04 AM: Nice! :salute
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Post by: Nefarious on April 07, 2019, 03:09:43 PM: A beauty!
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Post by: donna43 on April 07, 2019, 04:22:11 PM: Uploaded photo
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Post by: perdue3 on April 15, 2019, 09:12:03 AM: Wonderful job, Greebo. Thank you for doing it. :cheers:
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Post by: Shifty on July 08, 2019, 08:22:07 AM: Beautiful work Greebs.
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Post by: bustr on July 08, 2019, 12:13:24 PM: How do you get your panel lines and rivets\fastener heads so small now.....Incredible. :aok
Title: Re: Coral Sea Wildcat
Post by: Greebo on July 09, 2019, 03:19:52 AM: The detail is basically down to the texture resolution. AH3 shapes have a texture res of either 2048 pixels square for small aircraft or 2048 by 4096 for big bombers. Earlier AH2 shapes are either 1024 square or 2048 square for big bombers. So a 2048 res skin like this F4F can have panel lines half the width and rivets one quarter the size of a similar-sized AH2 1024 res aircraft like a Spitfire.