Flight Replicas B-24 preview

Cannot get over the Beauty and Majesty of this B-24! Can't wait to spend my time stuck at home Flying this thing. My Thanks to you painters that resurrect these marvelous machines for us to appreciate and memorialize those who served with them. This certainly keeps their memories alive!!
 
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All I can say is WOW!!! Such great art work for a great looking plane. This will be a definite for me as I love to fly in the Pacific where the B-24 was particularly well suited to fly those long missions. I have a humble request: would it be possible have some 13th AAF representation (307th Long Rangers and 868th Snoopers) and 5th AAF Bomber Barons?

Can't wait for this release. Keep up the great work.
 
Chippiedall 461st BG 764th BS #13

Wow, all these repaints are just tremendous! Here is another I have added to the 764th Bomb Squadron.



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Thank you goes to JanKees who helped me figure out how to upload to Flickr and post from there to here. Chippiedall flew the first 37 missions with the 461st and was downed on her 44th mission. This is the last entry in the MICR of 11 June 1944 when #13 when down. "Eleven parachutes were seen to open... the last line in the report is a happy note: All crewmembers returned to the U.S.
 
Another Day In The Paint Shed

Little by little I am recreating the 764th bomb Squadron repaints that I had on the Virtavia B24J onto the Flight Replicas B24J I was privileged to beta test for Mike. Now I am having some repainting fun with it. Here is #3 Stinky 41-29333 from the Consolidated Factory. I am including the photo of the real aircraft. I chose to take out the wear and some scratches in the paintkit and to change out the national insignia to a brighter white like the photo shows. When I first did the reprint I thought that the tail was white not red but JanKees pointed out to me on a P-51 Mustang photo of a reprint I was doing of the Checkertail group, that film in the sunlight at this time sometimes showed red as white not dark like b/w film would now. Very deceiving if you don't know what the colors of the markings SHOULD be.

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Looking very good! I must confess this package is among the models I'm most eagerly awaiting!
Any RAF Coastal Command Paints?
 
Looking sharp in the coastal Command scheme. I assume that is a GR.VI?

Speaking of interesting coastal command Liberator, I guess a Liberator III/GR.V with the nose stub wings for rockets and BP tail turret is to streach it to far..?
 
The ol' Bird from the 764th Bomb Sqn

Here is the repaint I just finished from the noseart on the 461st Bomb Group (H) website. It is one of the original aircraft that were ferried to Torretta to join the 15th AF in Italy in 1944. I corrected all of the horizontal stabs in my repaints from all red to this right red-left red bar. I have conflicting information of the orientation of the bar either vertical like this or horizontal and I have posed a question to our 461st historian. In the meantime here it is flying over 1944 Cerignola, Italy created in FSX@War 461st Campaign by Ed Akridge. This is Ed's "ride":

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Orientation of the bar

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Here is the repaint I just finished from the noseart on the 461st Bomb Group (H) website. It is one of the original aircraft that were ferried to Torretta to join the 15th AF in Italy in 1944. I corrected all of the horizontal stabs in my repaints from all red to this right red-left red bar. I have conflicting information of the orientation of the bar either vertical like this or horizontal and I have posed a question to our 461st historian. In the meantime here it is flying over 1944 Cerignola, Italy created in FSX@War 461st Campaign by Ed Akridge. This is Ed's "ride":

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This is the correct painting of the horizontal stab for the 461st through August,1944. The exact date when they switched to full red for the 49th Bomb Wing it seems is lost in history. From studying a lot of photos of this group and the other groups in the wing for hours yesterday it seems that by 1945 the stabs were all red. The 461st historian doesn't know when either and sadly the guys who would now are now gone. :indecisiveness:
 
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