Scorch00
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This is a possible pitch and/or ask for permission type of thread. I've been talking to a few of my fellow tanker companions over the last several months. And the topic has come up several times of doing tanker conversion(s) of a B-25. The only viable option that's been presented, and in my opinion the highest quality one has been the one posted here on SOH. I have several other vintage tanker conversions in progress, but the B-25 has become a very popular option, if a possible conversion in our community became available. If it was deemed viable. I know there were a number of SOH members that took part in the FSX native conversion of Roy Chaffin's B-25, so I was curious if anyone that was part of that project could possibly reach out to me and/or Mr. Chaffin (as the readme stated that was provided said it may be hard to get in contact with Roy). It would be a fun project if permission was granted to modify it into a few of the popular tanker versions. I'm already working a P-61/F-15 tanker conversion with another person, as we recently got permission from DC Designs (Dean Crawford) to mod his aircraft recently. But, any info, support, permissions, etc would be greatly appreciated. I do a lot of these conversions (some may know) so I aim to get permissions prior to undertaking these types of modifications. The proposed modifications would be simple, just removal of the guns, turrets, and reconfiguring of some windows (maybe) and the addition of a "nose capped" variant. As seen in some of the images below. Some also have external tank fairings added for the retardant tanks. Those could also warrant different possible variations. Depending on the popularity/want of that version. I have a rough prototype of a capped nose variant I can post as well. If there's interest or other questions. Thank you in advance.
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