A tribute to Jan Kees, and John Terrell

[fsxar177]

The "Little Friends II" package continues to shine!
The ability for texture artists to accurately depict these war-time machines is unprecedented!

+1 For these latest paints!

 

[res non verba]

what an awesome footage and as always excellent paintings and model! :salute:

:ernae:

 

[Daube]

Beautiful shots of some beautiful repaints on some beautiful models. How else could I say this ?

 

[JAllen]

+1 Jan Kees and John you have brought some fantastic artwork to us all. Thank you.

BTW sure that you know, what base was home to these yellow noses?

Jim

 

[gradyhappyg]

Gee guys don't forget the Cs!

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[roger-wilco-66]

Awesome!

 

[Roger]

Great thread, great artists!

 

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you Joseph (great screenshots!!), and thank you Jan Kees!

Regarding the nose art, as Jan Kees brought up in a different thread, it is obvious that the same person painted the nose art/designed the typography on both of the aircraft seen in these screenshots (and likely several more from the same squadron), with the unique attributes and characteristics of the two sets of artwork traced to the vision of one individual. I know several of these guys were already experienced in art before entering the service, and would go on to be sign painters and graphic artists following the war. I think the black-dot "book-ends" look very "Playbill", adding additional accent/flare to the name-artwork.

 

[jankees]

Thank you Joseph and John, for the shots and the model. Both are very nice!

Here is yet another paint for the 374th FS, and once more with the black dots: "Sweet Thing IV", the aircraft assigned to Lt.Col. Roy A. Webb jr., shown as it looked after the 29 june 1944 raid on Ochserleben airfield, where he destroyed 5 aircraft.

 

[skyhawka4m]

I agree......Thanks john for an awesome plane series......too bad it had to end......was really hoping for the TF-15



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[Bomber_12th]

Awesome work, Jan Kees! As with "Ferocious Frankie", I love the look of the "kill-board" applied to the canopy frame.

Thank you John (I love that screenshot!)! While I am done producing full-fledge, multi-variant P-51D products (as I mentioned in the past), there will be some individual/unique products yet to come (the first of which, will be available very, very soon), focusing on one or two examples in particular, at a time (that otherwise wouldn't be able to be reproduced near as well, or if at all, on the models already done/available). I might still put together a post-war F-51, released with one or two paint schemes (not worring about all of the differences between one production model to the next (though I do think they became rather standardized after WWII). If I do ever become ambitious enough, I still would like to build a TF-51D (just one version), with the full two-cockpit configuration. This would be modeled after the TFC-owned "Miss Velma", as the Warbirdsim offices have litterally hundreds of in-depth photos from throughout the cockpit (front and back) on "Miss V", just waiting to be used for such a project. If such a project is undertaken, it would be released with just one or two paint schemes, using one model, and then make a paintkit available for others to add additional paint schemes.

Also, if anyone has an idea for a P-51D/F-51 related project for FSX, that you think might be of some good interest within the FS community, similar to as outlined above, please give me a shout, and if we should go with the idea, you'll be sure to get a free copy of the product!

 

[skyhawka4m]

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