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Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 09:58:01 AM: 365th Fighter Group
387thFighter Squadrons The "Hell Hawks".

2nd Lt. Lopez, Edward J from Los Angeles, CA
Served on P47-D30 from 10/1944 to 9/1945
Medals : (DFC) (PH) (9 BOLC)

My boss dad flew this P47-D30 during the battle of the bulge.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 10:02:58 AM: He never saw a German aircraft, did mostly gound attacks. He used WEP only one time. He was leading an element and observed tanks in a town. He ask the rest of it's element to stay up while he was doing a gun pass.
He went down all guns blazings but before he could understood what was going on, all hell loose around him. He didn't noticed all the AAA. His wingman thought he was toast with all the tracers/expolsions around his plane.

He kicked the wep in, the only time he used it. He recall being very impressed by the extra power, felt like the whole front cowling was "twisting". He climbed back right away above 10k and headed home ... a bit shot up.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 10:04:28 AM: He doesn't recall the D30 having dive flaps.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 10:06:19 AM: When he was attacking grond vehicles and histallations with bombs, he was also using all guns during the dive and the pull up. Not that he was aiming at anything, but it was "psychological" war.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 10:07:56 AM: Mr Lopez is still alive in L.A. and in a very good health. After the war, he remained in the AF for a while, flew B36s and F86s.

What u guys think of the alluminium try?
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: Fancy on November 27, 2002, 11:23:11 AM: Pretty damn good on the metal feel Frenchy. The spraypaint stuff looks a little pixelized but I suppose there's really no good way around that. But otherwise you did an excellent job.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: gatso on November 27, 2002, 11:32:34 AM: Not bad at all ;)

An excellent job :)

Gatso
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 27, 2002, 11:37:28 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Fancy
Pretty damn good on the metal feel Frenchy. The spraypaint stuff looks a little pixelized but I suppose there's really no good way around that. But otherwise you did an excellent job.

Yeah I cannot go around that :( If I could use more colors, it would look really good on the makings :D If I use more color for the markings, then the rest of the plane have the "diftering" look.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: nuchpatrick on November 27, 2002, 11:54:40 AM: Nice Job Frenchy!
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: Sancho on November 27, 2002, 03:43:31 PM: did you use the template?? :) The metal looks nice. Way better than the default white. I like it.

The squadron code and tail letter are a bit on the large size. Most of the 8th and 9th AF planes I've seen had the same size characters on the sides. Also, shouldn't it have the black ETO recognition bands on the tail surfaces and a tail number?
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: GRUNHERZ on November 27, 2002, 04:18:40 PM: How come he never saw a German plane? Weren't the allies outnumbered 50-1 by the LW on every mission... :rolleyes:
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: whgates3 on November 28, 2002, 02:04:08 AM: Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
How come he never saw a German plane? Weren't the allies outnumbered 50-1 by the LW on every mission...

of course they weren't.
the luftwaffe was never able to attain air superiority over the western front.

¦¬þ
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: AtmkRstr on November 28, 2002, 07:28:59 AM: Quick, teach HTC how you did that metal! :) Looks great.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: cajun on November 30, 2002, 11:50:53 PM: By the time planes like p47D-30 came out air war was pretty much won by the allies, they did more ground attack than aircombat.

Very nice metalic look, but why does it have 16x50 cals (8 underneath the wing!??)
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: moose on December 01, 2002, 12:19:39 AM: Those are the shell ejection ports for each .50cal

In WWIIF you see em drop out a ton of shells :)
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: cajun on December 01, 2002, 09:45:23 PM: oh duh! they look allot like guns! lol
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on December 02, 2002, 01:35:21 AM: You can make them out here.
Title: silver attempt, my boss dad's P47-D30
Post by: frank3 on December 02, 2002, 07:17:21 AM: yeah! you did an excellent job on the mettalic, never seen it so good.