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jankees said:
Wasn't the 7th AF called the "Pineapple Air Force"?
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My faux pas jankees, I meant "Pineapple Air Force", not "Cactus Air Force".

Yes, you are most correct, the "Pineapple Air force" was named so because they were based in Hawaii before the war, during and after Pearl Harbor. The blue stripe that you saw on the profile you had was how the planes were painted when in Hawaii when in overall NMF before the war, along with blue wing tips. When they left Hawaii, the fuselage was painted overall with OD/NG along with the fuselage stripe, but the tail stripes and wing tips remained blue. The tail surfaces and most of the cowl remained their NMF finish. I have to really thank Lee Kolosna of Raleigh, NC, and a great plastic modeler in his own right, for supplying me with ample evidence of the Pineapple victory markings and historical information.

I also corrected "Dove of Peace and will send an entirely new texture pack for that soon. I found another photo of "Dove Of Peace" when Capt. Duncan belly landed that showed the nose emblem and the painting "Dove of Peace" was also on the starboard side of the fuselage, so I amended that and made new alphas and specs. It is really not all that much of a problem except for the time it takes for the images to load! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg! I can correct an image in two to three minutes, having all saved in layers, but resaving the images after correction, redoing the Alphas, saving them, coping all, pasting them to the respective DXTBitmap norm, spec, and both Alphas for each image, then reloading in DXTBitmap and saving in DDS5 takes :censored: forever! Once all's done, it really doesn't take that long to zip my package and upload the 10 MB package up to SOH. I have fast cable, it goes up in 5 to 7 minutes.

BTW jankees, according to historian Lee, in WW II there was no such thing as a Font. Everything was done in the field and only ample photographic evidence can supply the correct markings.

Caz
 
Just a couple of screens of "Dove of Peace" showing the amendment.

Caz

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IanHenry said:
Hi,
a repaint of the one called Margaret would be really cool (my wife's called Margaret)

Ian
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It would be cool, unfortunately, I have no idea what the rest of the a/c looks like. The caption says Capt Walker Boone of the 82nd Fs 78th FG, but nothing about the aircraft. That only tells me it has a MX code, but not what the individual code is, nor the serial..
If you can find more data on Margaret, I'll paint it, OK?
 
jankees said:
Have any of you guys ever scrounged around on this site: http://www.footnote.com/ ?
I've found a lot of amazing pics there:
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Great photos jankees, doing the Margaret would be easy, take the photo, select the area around the name, copy, paste to a longer width and free transform using distort to make it straight, then using the pen tool, write the name. As ChrisB will tell you and you probably know there is nothing better than vector graphics for sharpness in cases like this. When you are finished making all the letters, merge the layer visible.

Note on The New Yorker that the area behind the glazing is NMF.

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
Great photos jankees, doing the Margaret would be easy, take the photo, select the area around the name, copy, paste to a longer width and free transform using distort to make it straight, then using the pen tool, write the name. As ChrisB will tell you and you probably know there is nothing better than vector graphics for sharpness in cases like this. When you are finished making all the letters, merge the layer visible.

Note on The New Yorker that the area behind the glazing is NMF.

Caz
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I would copy, paste, rotate them and then draw the letters in Illustrator and copy them to photoshop. Would take me 15 minutes I guess. As you say, vector images are much better for this.

Yes, the NMF is probably there in all NMF versions, I never noticed this until you brought it to our attention....but I'm not going to rework and repost everything. It will be incorporated in upcoming paintjobs, but I fear work is going to interfere with painting for a while, maybe just a few more...
This will be on the next one:
 
Thanks for the offer Jankees,
unfortunatly I have not been able to find any more pictures of this aircraft.

Regards,
Ian
 
and I thought that RAF Thunderbolt might be getting lonely too.
Still have to get rid of those stars on the wheels though...
 
:ernae: Jankees!

I sent two all-new texture packages up for "Miss Mary Lou" and "Dove of peace", which should be up tomorrow. There was not much amendment to "Dove of Peace" and if folks that downloaded the first package like it, you can change it or not. I simply made nose emblem and the Dove of Peace" script and drawing for the starboard fuselage also after I found a photograph indicating they were on the starboard side as well as the port side.

I advise everyone that downloaded my first "Miss Mary Lou" to download the new texture package and overwrite the old. It is a completely new set of newly made textures that are as correct as I could get them.

And thirdly, I have a Gabby Gabreski Razorback for you. Look tomorrow at your driendly neighborhood outhouse.

Caz

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