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Commonwealth Mustangs

Tako_Kichi

Tako_Kichi

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I have been splashing some paint around with the new high res paintkit for the A2A P-51. I felt the Commonwealth birds had been rather neglected and decided it was time they were appreciated more. So far I have completed four bare metal paints and will be starting on camo ones shortly. Along with the aircraft I also changed the pilot clothing to better reflect the Commonwealth uniforms and made the correct shoulder boards for the correct aircraft so if you select a Squadron Leader's bird the pilot is wearing Squadron Leader's shoulderboards and likewise for the Wing Commander.

First up is an aircraft from 234 Sqn RAF.

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Next are two aircraft from 442 Sqn RCAF, one carrying a Squadron Leader's pennant and the other a Wing Commander's pennant.

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Finally an aircraft from 3 Sqn RAAF based in Laverino, Italy early in 1945.

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I should have them packaged up sometime tomorrow and will let you know when they are available.
 
Would you believe that in all my research and Google image searching I have not come across a single RNZAF mustang!

If you know of some online reference (preferably with colour piccies) can you point me at them and I will see what I can do.

EDIT
Doing a specific search for 'RNZAF + Mustang + P-51' has turned up some possible candidates.....watch this space! ;)
 
Trans_1007 said:
How about this picce?
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Thanks Tim, I have just found a bunch of info on that very aircraft including a page on the Hyper Scale website that gives lots of good photos of a plastic model build of the same plane. It looks like that is a contender as there is some good research material with it too.
 
Cracking stuff!!!!

Really loooking forward to some of these, the NZ one with the bar does look like it would make a cracking scheme. The Italy stang and its tail is very different in a good way of course. :ernae:
 
Naki said:
Nice - any RNZAF ones planned??
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Paul . ill source any photos , strange thing other than Grahame B's the highest fly hour Mustang ended up with a grand total of only 540 hrs , i do have a B/W pic here but i guess a lot of artistic licence maybe required , NZ2406 still has the US bars .
 
for some reason it looks better with roundels :applause: Allthough the colours look a bit bright to me :)
 
stiz said:
for some reason it looks better with roundels :applause: Allthough the colours look a bit bright to me :)
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I was thinking the same Stiz at least for the roundels and fin flashes. I grabbed those off a well known (and often wrong) website as it was easier than making my own. I just found a three page PDF document that lists all the RAF colours with F.S., RGB and CMYK values and also has paint chips for them and they look much closer to the 'real' thing.

I need to revisit all the paints anyway once I have found out where the gun sleeves are hiding on the texture so I will check the roundel colours at the same time.
 
Tako_Kichi said:
I was thinking the same Stiz at least for the roundels and fin flashes. I grabbed those off a well known (and often wrong) website as it was easier than making my own. I just found a three page PDF document that lists all the RAF colours with F.S., RGB and CMYK values and also has paint chips for them and they look much closer to the 'real' thing.

I need to revisit all the paints anyway once I have found out where the gun sleeves are hiding on the texture so I will check the roundel colours at the same time.
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The rest of the paint (well, the metal) looks weathered and quite dirty, so it's probably best to just fade the roundels into it, perhaps with reduced opacity, or slightly desaturated colours.
 
I just uploaded the four repaints above (after making a few fixes so consider those screenshots as WIPs ;) ) so they should be available within the next 24 hours once the Admins clear them.
 
Heres a pic I took at Warbirds over Wanaka in 2006 ..and just seen it do a display today at the local airport for the D Day display.

NZ2415 (ZK-TAF) is really the grandaddy of all NZ warbirds as its been in the country for over 20 years.
Its not a NZ original Mustang but there are two still flying - one in the US with Kermit Weeks and the other in the UK with Maurice Hammond (neither in NZ schemes)

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Oh of course Jankees - I knew about those but I didnt know that they would work in FSX

Cheers
 
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