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Offline Vraciu

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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2023, 11:30:50 PM »
Bingo.   :cheers:
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2023, 11:55:41 PM »
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2023, 11:58:28 PM »
Quote from: Vraciu on April 09, 2023, 11:21:19 PM
https://371stfightergroup.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/



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This may have had an influence on profiles, modelers, skinners...   Different unit but...


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https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/p-47-of-the-406th-fighter-group-named-big-ass-bird-ii.773/full?d=1533598157

Omg Big A** Bird is a must!!! I will pay!  :banana:

Quote from: oboe on April 09, 2023, 09:11:08 PM
Perhaps Lyric can help find something on that skin?

I don't want to take away someone's favorite skin - especially since we have so many free D-40 slots available.   But I can't find any reference to this lightning bolt skin, and the skins in the game are supposed to be historically correct.

For now I'll just keep skinning the one I was working on but hold off adopting Kev's skin in hope some evidence can be found for it.   I'm sure there must be something out there - Lyric has access to a lot of info.

Well thank you but I don’t want to stand in the way of continuity lol. It’s fairly close to that B&W picture anyway. Just widen the red stripe.
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2023, 12:25:16 AM »
Quote from: Dadtallica on April 09, 2023, 11:58:28 PM


Fount it and it has nose art now.

"Just Bess"



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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2023, 02:03:59 AM »
Quote from: Dadtallica on April 09, 2023, 11:58:28 PM
Omg Big A** Bird is a must!!! I will pay!  :banana:

I've already skinned it, as a D-25 (no fillet in the photo).

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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2023, 07:49:55 AM »
Sweet!
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2023, 08:24:14 AM »
Quote from: lyric1 on April 10, 2023, 12:25:16 AM
Fount it and it has nose art now.

"Just Bess"



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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2023, 08:32:10 AM »
Quote from: oboe on April 09, 2023, 10:14:02 PM
Ah, so you can do that - a replacement skin doesn't have to match the squadron of the old skin?  I was wondering about that. 

The one i replaced had bad info submitted to get it in the game and was supposed to have been removed but never was. A few of the F4U's had information that was a stretch but i went with what was there, just one was so egregious i completely replaced it.
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2023, 08:35:55 AM »
Thank you, Lyric.  You are the skinning community's MVP for sure!

OK, it's a little weird that 42-28839 is a P-47D-28RA and yet is clear from the picture it has the tail dorsal fin.  I thought the first appearance of the dorsal fin came with the -30RA submodel.   I can only conclude some -28RAs were field modified?

At any rate, thanks to Lyric and Dadtallica, the skin 42-28839 is safe as a D-40.   

Vraciu identified the 367th FG skin I am working on - "Duck Butt".  There is a plastic model of her and the box art grabbed me:


Vraciu's image of her is actually a B&W photo of the model in a diorama setting - extremely well done.   When finished she'll go in as a new submission rather than an update of an adoption.   

BTW, apparently "duck butt" was slang for a short person but I have no idea who the figure in the nose art is, or why the plane was named such.  Pilot was Lt Arthur G. Witters; he stayed in the Air Force after the War and went on to build the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

"Big A55 Bird" is one of my favorite D-25 skins.  That one, "Coffey's Pot", "Snorting' Bull" are all terrific.  Greebo does an outstanding job with all his skins.
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2023, 09:30:13 AM »
Thank you to all of you they are alright by me!  By the way the skin in question, 42-28839, I feel it’s one of the closet to the shiny bare metal look you were discussing in another thread. 

Lol @ Duck-Butt :rofl :lol
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2023, 10:07:35 AM »
Quote from: Vraciu on April 10, 2023, 08:24:14 AM
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Better image than the one I posted before.

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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2023, 10:19:54 AM »
Quote from: oboe on April 10, 2023, 08:35:55 AM
Thank you, Lyric.  You are the skinning community's MVP for sure!

OK, it's a little weird that 42-28839 is a P-47D-28RA and yet is clear from the picture it has the tail dorsal fin.  I thought the first appearance of the dorsal fin came with the -30RA submodel.   I can only conclude some -28RAs were field modified?

At any rate, thanks to Lyric and Dadtallica, the skin 42-28839 is safe as a D-40.   

Vraciu identified the 367th FG skin I am working on - "Duck Butt".  There is a plastic model of her and the box art grabbed me:
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Vraciu's image of her is actually a B&W photo of the model in a diorama setting - extremely well done.   When finished she'll go in as a new submission rather than an update of an adoption.   

BTW, apparently "duck butt" was slang for a short person but I have no idea who the figure in the nose art is, or why the plane was named such.  Pilot was Lt Arthur G. Witters; he stayed in the Air Force after the War and went on to build the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

"Big A55 Bird" is one of my favorite D-25 skins.  That one, "Coffey's Pot", "Snorting' Bull" are all terrific.  Greebo does an outstanding job with all his skins.


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Offline Vraciu

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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2023, 10:52:19 AM »
Oh yeah.  You can trek is a model when you look closer.  Oops.
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2023, 04:59:26 PM »
Quote from: Vraciu on April 10, 2023, 10:52:19 AM
Oh yeah.  You can TELL IT is a model when you look closer.  Oops.
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Re: P-47D-40 skin adoption
« Reply #29 on: April 10, 2023, 05:07:09 PM »
Yes, many D-28s received a dorsal fin retrofit.
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