A2A P-51 IS HERE!

Hey guys...another one for you all :)
Here is a good one for 'P-51ing' around PNW. With the 364th FG nose art template still going, I painted up N51DH, currently based at the Evergreen Aviation & Space museum, McMinville (KMMV), OR. This particular P-51 has had a few 364th FG variations on it over the years. I chose to have this repaint represent the P-51 in an Oregon ANG livery seen here.
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Again it isn't 100% exact, I was lucky someone took a reasonably good picture of the bird logo...had to do some fudging to have the 'oregon' text flip on the opposite side :) For ducks, I lightented the metal this time and polished the alphas a bit. Changed the 'blue' shade on the stripes a little too.

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Submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.
Cheers
TJ

*note also updated spec file for Lucky Lady VII. Submitted the update to Avsim. The SOH download will have the current update prior to posting.
 
While in this painting frenzy, I decided to change pace and try somthing a little different. Someone painted the P-51 in Luftwaffe colors, so I decided to paint the P-51 in Imperial Japanese Army colors...based on this KI-61 scheme. I did some 'what if' IJ schemes for the CH FW-190 a while back.
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I called it 'KI-51'. Here is the result. :)
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Cheers
TJ
Submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.
 
KI-51 updated with optional IJA style blue wheel wells.
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Updated here at SOH with A2A_P-51_ki51.zip, just redownload for the update. I also submitted the update to Avsim.
 
Brilliant repaints gradyhappyg and some superb screenshots thunderbolt. Is that Grants skin he had just posted at our forums? :icon_eek:

Heres an ozzie ThomasDWeiss repaint, the super shiney warbird version

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