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Scat iii repaint?

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jandmbear

SOH-CM-2016
Fagen Fighters recently repainted "Ruff Stuff" as "Scatt III", Robin Olds P-38. Is there a repaint out there for the Milviz P-38? If not, I wonder if someone would be so kind to make one?

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You are the first person that has mentioned Robin Olds as far as I can tell. Does the lack of mention and liveries mean that folks don't know the origins of his dogfighting skills?
 
Here are some more photos of the Fagen's P-38L in its new paint scheme. This aircraft was painted as "Ruff Stuff" for the last 7 years, did its job honoring Norbert Ruff, and now will honor Robin Olds - as Evan Fagen mentioned, with a good number of P-38's under restoration right now, they wanted to get the aircraft painted as "Scat III" before someone else beat them to it. It remains the only P-38 flying today with working turbochargers, though the P-38F "White 33" nearing completion at Westpac Restorations will also be flying with working turbos.

(Note that the exhaust staining seen in the air-to-air photo in the first post of this thread was accumulated after only about a week of flying.)

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henrystreet said:
You are the first person that has mentioned Robin Olds as far as I can tell. Does the lack of mention and liveries mean that folks don't know the origins of his dogfighting skills?
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I would hope that all of the warbird enthusiasts would know about his amazing combat leadership skills and the longevity of his career as a commander, and at the end of his Airforce career as the Commandant of the Airforce Academy. His daughter, Kristina Olds released his memoirs recently and it is a great read!
 
jandmbear said:
I would hope that all of the warbird enthusiasts would know about his amazing combat leadership skills and the longevity of his career as a commander, and at the end of his Airforce career as the Commandant of the Airforce Academy. His daughter, Kristina Olds released his memoirs recently and it is a great read!
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+1 for sure
 
I know he's a busy man, but Bomber_12th is by far the most Qualified painter out there to do SCAT III. Jankees as well as he has experience putting SCAT on the FSD 38 and painting the Milviz model. It appears by the photos that Bomber and I must have been standing pretty darn close to each other when he took them! Someday I'm gonna meet that guy and shake his hand! I went out of my way to personally Thank Ron and Diane Fagen for Honoring the last P-38 "Ace" in the 8th AF, Robin Olds. "Ruff Stuff" was a beautiful scheme and we will never forget it, nor Norbert Ruff. But "SCAT III" is a tribute to an INCREDIBLE Warrior. One of the Greatest Fighter Pilots and Leaders this Country ever produced. The details in the scheme are amazing. The script used to put the Pilot and Crew Chief names on the side of the airplane match the historical photographs exactly.
 
No offense meant to Bomber, but Stovall has a lot of the MV Lightning repaints in the library. Has anyone asked him?
 
jankees said:
which makes me wonder why I even bother to paint these models.....



but if you're patient, I can do it somewhere in the near future
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Jankees, I cant speak for anyone else, but I have several of your paints. You even made one I requested a few months back for Manfred's C-47 "Ready For Duty" of the Commerative Air Force Dallas Fort Worth. and it was brilliant! If you decide to make a Scat III repaint I for one would be thrilled!
 
My sincere apologies Jankees. I made a hasty mistake and clearly misspoke earlier. Upon further investigation, I realize that I confused myself, knowing it is your work as the painter for the Milviz-38 project but mistakenly gave credit to someone else. I ask for your forgiveness for my mistake as I slip back into the overcast and disappear
 
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