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Offline oboe

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Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:29:30 AM »
Wondering where this one went.   Been seeing lots of P-3s in the MA lately and don't recall when this skin went away.


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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2010, 10:54:52 AM »
Too many skins? Rotated out for a while?

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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2010, 11:25:55 AM »
I hope not... I'm still waiting for 'Uncle Cy's Angel' to be added.
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2010, 02:06:09 PM »
I'm still not convinced that was a yellow nose 38.  The 370th history has no images of that particular bird.  I have the diecast 38 in that paint, but it's always made me wonder if that was artistic license.
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 03:56:11 PM »
I'm still not convinced that was a yellow nose 38.  The 370th history has no images of that particular bird.  I have the diecast 38 in that paint, but it's always made me wonder if that was artistic license.
I have a photo of that aircraft at home. I would say it is legit. :aok

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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2010, 03:02:30 AM »
lyric,

have you got any info a 370th 38 named "My Little Pig"?   There is a great large scale profile of it at www.markstyling.com but I wonder how accurate it is.

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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2010, 03:44:10 AM »
lyric,

have you got any info a 370th 38 named "My Little Pig"?   There is a great large scale profile of it at www.markstyling.com but I wonder how accurate it is.
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2010, 05:41:16 AM »
Thanks lyric - is that from the 370th FG History book?

I like the way they hurriedly removed the invasion stripes - basically just scrubbed off the white stripes, leaving the black ones.   Pretty interesting skin visually.

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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2010, 12:24:56 AM »
Thanks lyric - is that from the 370th FG History book?

This one.


The yellow nosed P38 photo I got from here.

http://forum.armyairforces.com/370th-FG-f179.aspx

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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2010, 05:51:03 AM »
I'm still not convinced that was a yellow nose 38.  The 370th history has no images of that particular bird.  I have the diecast 38 in that paint, but it's always made me wonder if that was artistic license.
I found a very old Osprey book with a small blip of info & a profile of this plane.




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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2010, 01:18:05 PM »
Damn Lyric, nice photos! 
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2010, 01:02:29 PM »
The one with the checkerboard nose looks pretty cool. Then again, Im a sucker for black/white checkerboard noses.
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2010, 01:11:00 PM »
The one with the checkerboard nose looks pretty cool. Then again, Im a sucker for black/white checkerboard noses.

P38 nose is too stretchy for checks.
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Re: Whatever happened to this popular OD 370th FG P-38 skin?
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2010, 01:45:00 AM »
Yes & my profile has the invasion stripes you like :D.


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