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FSX Screenshots Here!!

Note that the aircraft was G-SUSY in the UK for quite some time, but it was also registered as G-CDHI for the last few years it was in the UK (2005-2007). So, for instance, if you go to Airliners.net, there are 4-pages (tons of photos) of the aircraft while still sporting the old "Susy" markings if you search for G-CDHI (2005/2006), while if you search G-SUSY there you won't find much. http://www.airliners.net/search/pho...limit=15&sid=e6be293b09b9c31bf4336049a8ce26f7

(Note, also, that in 2007, the name was briefly changed to "Darlin' Ann". This only lasted until 2008, when the aircraft was sold and brought to Germany where it was overhauled and stripped & polished.)
 
I see why you're attracted to her as she is now John. That finish is right up your street:encouragement: I'd completely missed her as Darlin' Ann though to be honest.. my memory is beginning to extend along a similar timeline to me owning a digital camera!! I've untold 35mm shots I've not seen in years that live in the loft which I may dig out one day. I took the two shots above on 8.7.06 so she was in fact G-CDHI then and not G-SUSY. I couldn't remember her reg so plonked P-51D Suzy into the search engine and G-SUSY came up. I knew she'd gone abroad but wasn't aware of her current state;)

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Early one morning at RAF Chivenor

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Thank you Dave - it's one of those that I've actually been wanting to do since I originally began making the P-51D models, but for some reason or another never got around to it (same with Bald Eagle).

More T-6G time:







 
Another WIP, just about finished. This is the Olympic Flight Museum's P-51D (I released a repaint of the OFM's Corsair for the AF Corsair last year). I'm hoping I got the shade of the blue correct. It looks like a simple-enough scheme, but it made me work for it (very little is exactly the same from the left side to the right side). This aircraft used to be based near me, north of Minneapolis/St. Paul back between about 1993-97 (when owned by Wally Fisk/Polar Aviation Museum), but since then it has been based in Olympia, WA (near our own WarHorse47, who requested this repaint be done). The paint scheme originated as "Lou IV" in 1977 when owned/raced by Tom Kelly and John Dilley (back when a number of Mustangs were painted in 361st FG markings with knowingly non-authentic powder blue upper surfaces). In 1986, the paint scheme was slightly modified and renamed "Cutters Capers" when owned/raced by Dean Cutshall. The name was changed to "American Beauty" around 2000, as it has remained since, and although the paint scheme is completely non-authentic, the markings below the canopy on the port-side of the fuselage honors Col. Frederick "Ted" Bullock, a WWII Mustang/Spitfire pilot from Olympia, WA, who served with the 52nd FG.







 
Alrighty Dave, she's starting to take shape. Still need to do some more work on the alpha's and spec file then move on to the wings.





Joe
 
Bomber_12th said:
Another WIP, just about finished. This is the Olympic Flight Museum's P-51D (I released a repaint of the OFM's Corsair for the AF Corsair last year). I'm hoping I got the shade of the blue correct. It looks like a simple-enough scheme, but it made me work for it (very little is exactly the same from the left side to the right side). This aircraft used to be based near me, north of Minneapolis/St. Paul back between about 1993-97 (when owned by Wally Fisk/Polar Aviation Museum), but since then it has been based in Olympia, WA (near our own WarHorse47, who requested this repaint be done). The paint scheme originated as "Lou IV" in 1977 when owned/raced by Tom Kelly and John Dilley (back when a number of Mustangs were painted in 361st FG markings with knowingly non-authentic powder blue upper surfaces). In 1986, the paint scheme was slightly modified and renamed "Cutters Capers" when owned/raced by Dean Cutshall. The name was changed to "American Beauty" around 2000, as it has remained since, and although the paint scheme is completely non-authentic, the markings below the canopy on the port-side of the fuselage honors Col. Frederick "Ted" Bullock, a WWII Mustang/Spitfire pilot from Olympia, WA, who served with the 52nd FG.







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Beautiful, John. Just beautiful. Thanks for doing this.

Cheers
 
Joe..

Forgive me being picky as she already looks great. The red on the nose should cut down just behind the second (from front to back) exhaust and you have her cutting just behind the third. Can the layer be pushed fwd a cylinder?:encouragement:

John.. what's the idea behind that scheme on American Beauty?
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DaveB said:
Joe..

Forgive me being picky as she already looks great. The red on the nose should cut down just behind the second (from front to back) exhaust and you have her cutting just behind the third. Can the layer be pushed fwd a cylinder?

John.. what's the idea behind that scheme on American Beauty?
ATB
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Dave..

Rivet counters......:biggrin-new: That's a easy fix. There are a few other things I need to touch up from those pic's I didn't see last night.
It's a wonder what a good night sleep will do for ya.:very_drunk:

Joe
 
Tom Kelly and John Dilley were the first to paint a Mustang in this manner, with that very aircraft (44-73436), as early as 1977, and a number of other owners followed after finding the blue/yellow combination attractive. At that time, it was painted as "Lou IV" E2-C and registered as N51KT. I seem to recall that the decision to use the powder blue paint for the upper surfaces was a bit of an effort to thumb their noses at the warbird paint critics, but I'm not sure. Another early one, painted in much the same way, as early as 1978, was Don Weber's P-51D 44-73254 (today "Louisiana Kid"), which was painted as "Buster" with the same powder blue upper surfaces/361st FG. When Kelly and Dilley sold 44-73436 around 1985, they purchased P-51D 44-63350 and had it painted the exact same way, as "Lou IV" E2-C with the blue upper surfaces and also registered as N51KT (by this point, their previous Mustang was now registered N51KD, as it remains still today with the Olympic Flight Museum). Other Mustangs restored in psuedo-361st FG markings with powder blue upper surfaces followed through the 80's and early 90's, with examples like Bob Pond's P-51D, Paul Poberezny's TF-51D "Paul I", the P-51D "Six-Shooter", the P-51D "Obsession", the P-51D "Dazzling Donna" (today "Stang"), and probably a couple more I'm forgetting. No one at the time really believed this is how the aircraft looked during WWII, they just liked the way it looked. There was a debate at one time, at least up until the 80's/early 90's, between whether the 361st used the much darker insignia blue or RAF dark green/OD for the upper surfaces, but that debate has long been put to rest.

The paint scheme on the Olympic Flight Museum's P-51D "American Beauty" has arrived where it is at through various modifications of the aircraft's paint scheme from way back in 1977. At that time, it was painted as "Lou IV", with much of the nose painted yellow, the code letters E2-C, and the serial 413410 on the tail (code/serial details correct to the wartime "Lou IV"), but the rest of the base scheme has remained largely the same ever since. When the aircraft was sold to Dean Cutshall, the nose was repainted with only the area forward of the exhaust painted yellow, the name was changed to "Cutter's Capers", the code letters were changed to E2-S, and the tail serial was changed to 413926 (code/serial details correct to Urban Drew's P-51D). When Wally Fisk owned the aircraft in the mid-90's, the name was changed to "Slo-Mo-Shun", but everything else remained as it was. When Bryan Reynolds/Olympic Flight Museum purchased the aircraft, the name/nose art was changed to "American Beauty" (which comes from a 31st FG Mustang), and the personal details of Col. Ted Bullock (52nd FG pilot, and a resident of Olympia, WA, where the aircraft is based), who has now since passed away, were added below the canopy. Otherwise, the rest of the markings have largely remained the same (though repainted/touched-up over the years)
 
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My personal steed...

Waiting on Duckie to complete his F-100D in GA ANG colors, I hacked his 531st TFS SEA scheme for my personal use, using the paint kit for the tail and some other bits and pieces to create this 128th TFS (116th TFW) F-100. Just a bit more faded and enough different that it looks good next to the default SEA scheme that Milviz shipped! :)
 
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