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another one from Fowlmere

I'll take anything either of you produce! Although I still need to install all the gubbins and whatnot to do scenery design... Forgot about that bit.

I grabbed all the repaints you uploaded to fs.com a short while ago, Dave, and have just been sent an excellent drawing of the layout of Fowlmere, so if there are appropriate liveries on the loose, I'd better get cracking and install the A2A P-51D again, as well.
 
here two WiP shots of my first D-model for Fowlmere:

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peter12213 said:
Did anyone ever do Bud Anderson's "OLD CROW" ?
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I'm sure John / Bomber_12th did it..

Meanwhile, the 339th is filling the airfield...

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Now I see that all the B's have stripes on their wings, and the D's don't. Maybe I should still add those. Dave, how are you painting them, with, or without?
 
jankees said:
Now I see that all the B's have stripes on their wings, and the D's don't. Maybe I should still add those. Dave, how are you painting them, with, or without?
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Depends on when they're depicted. Between June and October/November early -D's would gradually lose their invasion stripes (from the top surfaces first) and the Quick ID Markings (QIM's, the black stripes) were removed by early 1945 from most, and not applied to new aircraft from around October/November 1944. Many -D's and -B's however retained them till the end of the war. I've just done Maurice Hammond's 'Marinell' as it would most probably have appeared in July 1944, based on photos on Peter Randall's Little Friends site. But Petitt and MacKenzie's 'Princess Pat' was lost in April 1945 and is shown without any ID markings and a coloured rudder(see also the other Fowlmere thread).

For your airfield shots to be historically accurate with rivet-counting detail (and sad...) you'd need to pick a month between June 1944 and May 1945, research what aircraft were on strength then and paint them marked as they would have been at that time. Personally I think you'd need to get out more.......!

They're great shots BTW and I wish I knew how to do that.

Regards

DaveQ
 
DaveQ said:
Personally I think you'd need to get out more.......!

They're great shots BTW and I wish I knew how to do that.

Regards

DaveQ
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Get out more?
I fell and nearly broke my leg yesterday, and the whole country is covered in snow...I couldn't move, so painted a few a/c..

But I made it to work today...

The shots are made with the recorder module ( link ). You record a flight, replay it as traffic with the next aircraft which you record etc
 
Either AI or FSRecorder, at a guess?

I used an AI file with every blue nose I could find in hi res for my shots at Bodney, but I think Nick uses FS recorder to get a bunch of aircraft next to each other.

Looking very nice anyway Gents, thanks for those! Fowlmere currently has a peri track, two steel mat runways and one steel dispersal point with a hangar and a 343/43 (probably not correct, but as close as I can get right now) tower. I've just been installing scenery libraries, though, so should have something more along this weekend as a draft version 0.1.

Edit: Jan Kees beat me to the post button. ;)
 
jankees said:
Get out more?
I fell and nearly broke my leg yesterday, and the whole country is covered in snow...I couldn't move, so painted a few a/c..
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I went outside once but I've retired now..........!

I can never get FSRecorder to record AI traffic. I set it up to record traffic (or so I assume) but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

DaveQ
 
I am absolutely thrilled to see all of these 339th birds showing up. I have a distant connection to the 339th. My mother was in the Red Cross and was stationed at Fowlmere with the 339th and I have attended a number of the groups reunions.

The attached picture is a group celebration of their 200th mission. My mom is the Red Cross gal on the left. The gentleman in the center is the group commander Col John B Henry.

I would like to request a repaint of Herv Stockman's P-51B 5Q-X "Fuxum".

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gall...rigStyle=list&Item=234&Temp=2699&searchString=
 
jt_dub said:
I am absolutely thrilled to see all of these 339th birds showing up. I have a distant connection to the 339th. My mother was in the Red Cross and was stationed at Fowlmere with the 339th and I have attended a number of the groups reunions.

The attached picture is a group celebration of their 200th mission. My mom is the Red Cross gal on the left. The gentleman in the center is the group commander Col John B Henry.

I would like to request a repaint of Herv Stockman's P-51B 5Q-X "Fuxum".

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gall...rigStyle=list&Item=234&Temp=2699&searchString
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Cool shot!
Fuxum was on my list.....so much to do, so little time...
 
Temptation was too much. My wife surprised me with an early Christmas present. All I can say is wow. I see and hear what you meant by being worth the money Jankees.

Bring on the paints and Fowlmere scenery!

Appreciate all y'all do to bring these birds to life.

Mr.Bob
 
jt_dub said:
I am absolutely thrilled to see all of these 339th birds showing up. I have a distant connection to the 339th. My mother was in the Red Cross and was stationed at Fowlmere with the 339th and I have attended a number of the groups reunions.

The attached picture is a group celebration of their 200th mission. My mom is the Red Cross gal on the left. The gentleman in the center is the group commander Col John B Henry.

I would like to request a repaint of Herv Stockman's P-51B 5Q-X "Fuxum".

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gall...rigStyle=list&Item=234&Temp=2699&searchString=
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It's wonderful to have this kind of post; it breathes real life into the stuff we do in painting these aeroplanes. One of us should do Col Henry's 'San Antone Rose'. BTW Herv Stockman went on to fly F-84's during the Korean war and F-4's from Da Nang in Vietnam.

DaveQ
 
About half way through the 72 flippin' dispersal points. I wouldn't mind if I didn't have to draw each one by hand because they're all at different angles so copy and paste doesn't work.

It's usable now, if anyone wants to fly something from it. It'll be a while before I get to add parking spots and more buildings though and I'll be cross-eyed from trying to keep steel mat taxiways from blending into concrete ones. I think I've used more taxiway reference points on this already than my last two airfields combined...

Taking a break now. Painkillers wearing off and my back is starting to seriously hurt again.
 
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