Heading out on D-Day

[DaveQ]

Major Mike Sobanski flying Howard Hively's 'The Deacon' leads Lt. Edward Steppe in Frank Speer's 'Turnip Termite' back to France on D-Day afternoon. Neither would return.

Been working on the Warbirdsim P-51B recently and these are just about done apart from paint chipping. I always find it quite moving recreating aircraft brave men have fought and died in.

Regards

DaveQ

PS - 'Suzy G' will be updated soon as well.

 

[Barvan40]

Very nice Dave!

 

[huub vink]

Very nice Dave, am I correct when I think the droptanks still need an alpha layer?

Cheers,
Huub

 

[DaveQ]

Very nice Dave, am I correct when I think the droptanks still need an alpha layer?

Cheers,
Huub

These tanks are painted grey, Huub. If I left them aluminium they would need an alpha channel. However, a quick trawl of photos on the 'Little Friends' site seems to suggest the early 75 gal. tanks with the raised filler cap were mostly painted grey.


DaveQ

 

[huub vink]

Thanks for the reply Dave, I really didn't know the first tanks were grey.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[Barnes]

Great work Dave