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

[oboe]

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

IIRC the West By Gawd Virginian didn't have the Malcolm hood, at least I couldn't find images of it in any of my searches.  Great looking bird though, and I would gladly contribute to a kick-starter campaign to get the bird cage P-51B added to AH!

[oboe]

Another profile of Snoot's Sniper - all the images I've find indicate a darker blue on the nose than we typically expect to see on a 352nd blue-noser aircraft.



Still pondering about the orange/black wheel rim versus red/blue.   I lean toward a colorization error, but can't deny it definitely looks orange/black in the photo.

[Vraciu]

I don't think orange/black makes any sense considering the border trim colors.

[Mister Fork]

I'll ask - are both photo's originally B&W with someone doing colorization?

If so, it could be the person who 'colored it' got the wheel color wrong. But TWO colored photos - would make sense to have it orange (in case one of them is an actual color photo).

[Devil 505]

I don't think orange/black makes any sense considering the border trim colors.

To me the "orange" is the same shade as the red, the color balance is off in the picture I posted.. The only color that makes no sense is the black.

[perdue3]

I don't know. The wheel colors are not even close to the nose colors in either color picture. I could be seeing something oddly, though.

[Vraciu]

To me the "orange" is the same shade as the red, the color balance is off in the picture I posted.. The only color that makes no sense is the black.

Then it's clearly red.

I don't think this is an actual color photo.   I think it's colorized.

In any case, it becomes a judgment call. 

[Mister Fork]

Then it's clearly red.

I don't think this is an actual color photo.   I think it's colorized.

In any case, it becomes a judgment call. 

Then it's clearly red.

I don't think this is an actual color photo.   I think it's colorized.

In any case, it becomes a judgment call. 

agreed V then it’s totally guessword as to what the actual colors were on the wheels since the colorized photos were not 100.00% accurate.

[Hajo]

Nice job Oboe!  According to some accounts at the time certain types of Color Film when taking a photo and processing it the yellow that one saw could show up black on the photo.

Looks good to me. 

[oboe]

Thank you sir!