P-51B "Snoot's Sniper" Lt Francis Home, 352nd FG / 328th FS

[oboe]

Lt. Francis Home was given credit for 5.5 kills while flying "Snoot's Sniper" with the 352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney, England. 

The Mustang was supposed to have been named "Snoot's Snipper" in recognition of crew chief Art "Snoots" Snyder's ability as a barber.  He painted the airplane as close to a barber pole as he could manage with red, white, and blue stripes on the trim tabs and around as many places as he could.  The right side of the aircraft featured an image of a barber pole. The airplane became a flying advertisment for the "Snyder Treatment".

[Greebo]

Nice job Oboe, another really good skin.

[Vraciu]

 

Nice job.

[Devil 505]

Very nice.

[lyric1]

 

[Nefarious]

Great work! Love the Blue Nosers! How about a Blue Nose "West By Gawd Virginian" <S>   

[perdue3]

I think your blue may be a wee bit too dark on this one. The red and white seem great, but may be a shade too dark on the blue. Good work.

[Devil 505]

I think your blue may be a wee bit too dark on this one. The red and white seem great, but may be a shade too dark on the blue. Good work.

According to this photo, Oboe's blue is dark enough.



But it does look like the wheels are red and black, not red and blue.

[Vraciu]

That photo is probably a tad dark itself I'm guessing...

[perdue3]

Maybe it is right, I don't know. It seems that if one goes by the black and white, that is too dark. If that is a true color photo from Devil and not a doctored photo, it looks about right.

[oboe]

Hard to say for sure.

I also had this one to go by, and I was sure I saw blue in the wheel rim:


The blue in this photo seems quite dark, and if I lighten the nose blue to a more familiar 352nd blue, the wheel definitely looks more blue too.  Snyder was so devoted to his art on the plane, don't know why he would use red/black on the wheel rim when the scheme all over the plane was red/blue/white?   

[FTJR]

Nice job Oboe.

[perdue3]

That is quite dark, like I say, if it is doctored it may explain it.

[Spikes]

The front quarter shot seems colorized to me. The wheels and gun ports look orange while the red stripe on the cowling looks more of a proper red.

[perdue3]

That wheel in the "colorized" photo is black, not blue. The wheel also does not look red, but a more orange as compared with the trim colors on the nose.