Recent content by thirtybg

Many of the color profiles from the aforementioned book are available HERE, including three P-47s. You'll also find a poor photo of a 332nd Jug HERE. This doesn't help with markings, but should be of interest... Benjamin Davis and a P-47...

Here's the latest... a fella on another forum posted a shot of a newly restored P-51 that just begged to be chopped... Here's the original... Photo by Vlado And the chop... I call this 'The Duel'...

The marking was indeed a bar containing numbers... From: US Navy Markings WWII Pacific Theater by Thomas E. Doll (Caler Illustrated Series) A very close examination of this next image may prove somewhat fruitful as well. USNHC Here's an enlargement of this image. The quality...

Almost forgot... this didn't turn out the way I'd intended (they almost never do) but it's still pretty cool lookin'. As most of you could probably tell, this is a model... the image was done as another April Fools kinda thing, although I don't think I fooled many folks... LOL

Here's some older things I've done... This first one was a super quickie (and ugly) job done to rib an acquaintance who drove Eagles with the 48th FW. Here's another ugly one done very quickly during a PM session to rib a friend who's a fan of the Bic Jet... he didn't appreciate it very...

This one may appear to have been a simple job, but it wasn't. I started with this shot, taken at the NMUSAF earlier this year by a fellow forumite from another forum... I added a B-17 (The CAF's Sentimental Journey) and spent the better half of an afternoon trying to get things to...

Here's another... my Dad took this photo at Hamilton, Ontario in the mid-80s. The P-40 is Kittyhawk AK940, then owned by Bill 'Doc' Anderson. Norb 'Bruno' Donacik photo I found this image on the web, also showing AK940... albeit in Wanaka, New Zealand during 2002 before being delivered...

Every now and again I mess around with PS in one way or another, mostly for fun or to create graphics for various web projects. Recently a fella posted this image on another forum I frequent, and the creative juices started flowing... Original image: Jeff Hunt photo And the...

Strictly speaking, the 4th FG was not a former Eagle Squadron. It was made up of three former Eagle Squadrons... 71, 121, and 133. When these three RAF squadrons were inducted into the USAAF, they became the 334th, 335th, and 336th Fighter Squadrons, respectively. Although the codes 'QP', 'WD'...

Excellent stuff... The B-17 is neither an 'E' nor an 'F'... 'tis a B-17G, serial number 42-31329 from the 334th BS, 95th BG. This ship was lost on March 16th, 1944 during a mission to Augsburg. I have yet to come across any particulars as to why she was lost, but five of the crew bailed...

Uncle Sam sent it over in 1944 or 1945 and, although there are conflicting stories as to the how and why, it never came home... Anyhoo, she is a P-61B, serial number 42-39715, and she undoubtedly served with either the 426th or 427th NFS... with the latter being a good bet, if at least one of...

The P-61 is among my favorites as well. One of my Dad's uncles maintained Black Widows for a brief time, late-war and post-war. Here's a few views of the NASM bird. The first four, taken during re-hanging of the port engine, were sent to me by an acquaintance... the last one is from the NASM...

Nice build... Those aren't SNJs... they're Tachikawa Ki-55 Idas. Here's another Chinese Ki-55... Source: unknown web The NA-16 family is a fairly complex subject which I have yet to master, so I dunno what variants these are... This looks like a BT-9, but with a later...

And here's a larger version of the factory shot... from my collection. This ship went on to serve with the CACW.

And some Chinese Ponies... some, or all of these may have been from the CACW, but I'm not sure. All photos: M. Kyburz collection