Recent content by tjlaven

I fly Aces High as Oboe. Lots of fun and variety. Looking forward to impending release of ME410 and remodelled Stuka next.

Quick question about the Ki-61's mottled camoflage schemes - what is the underying color? Is it natural metal, or an ivory-colored primer?

Thanks Wurger - I have seen those, but its the right hand side nose art I need in clearer view, esp color if possible.

Looking for examples of nose art on the right hand side. All I have is this pic: Trying to get a much closer/clearer image of that noseart graphic for doing a plane skin. Thanks help!

Here is a skin I made of George's early P-38, when he was serving with the 54th FS in the Aleutians. The time frame is 1943; the shark-mouthed plane was flown by Lt Colin MacDougal. I added the lens flare effect, grain, and desaturated the image to try to make it look like a color photo...

Oh thanks, I think that would be sufficient. Just wanted to be sure his P-38E, "Itsy Bitsy" would've been flown by him during the period when USAAF insignia was surrounded with the red border. Incidentally, I believe he served with the 54th FS, 343rd FG, while in the Aleutians, and...

Could you post a link to that? I don't think I have a way to see it otherwise, and I'd like to learn when Laven left the 54th FS to go to the 49th FG. I'd like to skin his P-38E for the game too, and the paint scheme of the squad's planes changed during their deployment (bars were added to...

Hi, I'm an admirer of George Laven, too. Unable to establish any familial connections but we share a fairly uncommon surname so I suspect there's a link somewhere. I made a skin for his P-38L which can be flown in the online air combat simulator "Aces High". Here is a picture of the skin in...