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lesofprimus
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Good enough.... So how many does that make now that we(you) have done now Dave???
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Johnson inherited Bill Martin's "Martin's Gloria". He had seven Iron Crosses (black core/white outline on a red rectangular block). The pictures below are of WR-J in late August/very early sept. This ship was damaged and replaced by the WR-J 44-14089. I don't have the damage report so I can't tell exact date in September.
The fact that the victory crosses are still on it means a relatively short time passed between overpainting Martin's Gloria, the erasing the victory symbols - as Johnson had no credits.
I can't tell for sure but I believe the following. Red trim tab, red 'arrow' w/Martin's Gloria - can't tell color of Martin's Gloria or Sweet Dorsey but inclined to believe yellow when comparing against white cowl band.
It looks great - I always liked the wavy top camo scheme even though it wasn't widely adopted. There is a good chance Perry's ship would have block letters and no art, less chance but possible that his P-51D would have the wavy camo top.
His crew chief passed away 10 years ago and Perry longer than that so no way I know to verify or challenge Dave's work.
Short answer - I like it
Good enough.... So how many does that make now that we(you) have done now Dave???
gents doesn't Thunderwagon and the squadron all have the squad white vertical band behind the white prop as ID and not grey as in the skin ?
Frickin awesome.... 2 more -51's, then on to the 109's.......We have a full Yellow flight plus half of Red...
I'm on Johnson's now, and saving the best for last, "Jane III"
Total of 6 completed!
Ill tell ya Dave, I hate fighting it out with .50 cals, they just dont do enough damage....
Very true Bill, as someone who has seen what a .50 cal round does to the human body, I totally agree....
But for shooting down the Evil Hun in IL2 Stumovik, they suck... Not as badly as the .303 round, but they still suck...
Nope, not in the game, but yea, the designers are Russian and the US aircraft models are feeble while the Russian kites are like sportscars....Can you fly a P-51A?
Lookin reeeeaaaaalllll good Dave, superb.... I think u got Dorsey figured out pretty good, wait and see what Bill says, but I think u got it....
The flight pics look great.... I have gotten the formation flights down on the game now, it works pretty decently until the 109's dive on the -24's....
Then all hell breaks loose...
Been looking at music and trying to find one that fits is turnin out to be tough... I want something longer to get it all in there.... I have 2 Metallica songs, No Remorse and For Whom The Bell Tolls, as well as Van Halens' Mean Street....
Still goin through my library of tunes....
And for the heck of it, here's a couple fun shots of Red (minus leader) and Yellow flights...
And no, these shots are not photoshopped, they were grabbed from a test mission I tossed together trying to solve Dan's problem of getting mixed aircraft into a single flight...
They play well together for a few minutes, then all hell breaks loose...
I dunno Bill, I need something with more kick and sequence.... Take a listen to For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metalllica.... I need a 4 1/2 - 5 minute song...
were the B models flown on the September 44 mission or just D's ?