I couldn't agree with you more, Jan .Personally I prefer the crosses. Lovely repaint(s) as always Danny!!
I also prefer that particular hood. I'd love to see a good K version and even more an E-4 version for MSFS!
Jan
Now - that makes three of us! Not putting iron crosses on Spits or wild horses eitherPersonally I prefer the crosses. Lovely repaint(s) as always Danny!!
I also prefer that particular hood. I'd love to see a good K version and even more an E-4 version for MSFS!
Jan
I think this is one of my best repaints -ever! Several weeks were spent on this Fighter Enterprises' Grand Champion Award restoration, depicting 424 Sqn. RCAF 9253/ BA-S. The Mustang itself is a real-life Pacific Theater veteran, rescued from a deteriorating condition from Venezuela in '95 before undergoing a 20 year restoration in Florida.
My AH model repaint got a new exterior PBR overhaul with new COMPLETE and NORMAL maps created. I researched through online and personal photos meticulously to get things as accurate (as the limitations of the modeling allow) as possible...since I can't find anymore errors, and I'm finally satisfied with the reflection and shine - I'm calling it done! Will be available at FS.to ( under my pseudonym DeltaSierra) probably tomorrow.
Rats...Thanks for clarifying John, I'll make the changes. Wing_Z what a pretty shot! Thanks!Excellent work on the repaint, Doug!
Your description of the real world aircraft is however not completely accurate. The real aircraft, P-51D-20-NA 44-72059, didn't serve in the Pacific Theatre. It is however a WWII European Theatre combat-vet, having served with the 384th Fighter Squadron, 364th Fighter Group, of the 8th Air Force, with fuselage code 5Y-P. Very soon after WWII it was sold to the Swedish Air Force (as serial no. Fv26142), followed by the Nicaraguan Air Force in 1955, was brought back to the US in '63 and later sold to the Bolivian Air Force in 1966, and eventually wound up in a Venezuelan Air Force Museum in 1984, from where it was recovered and brought back to the US in 1995. https://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/serial/44-72059
The RCAF Mustang for which it is painted to represent, P-51D-30-NA 44-74582, was built too late to see service in WWII and was immediately placed into storage fresh from the factory. In 1950 it was brought out of storage, overhauled, and began service with the RCAF in Canada. After its time with the RCAF, it was sold onto the civilian market in the US in the late 1950s and has remained in civilian hands in the US ever since - it has been owned and operated by Joe Thibodeau of Denver, Colorado, since 1991. https://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/serial/44-74582
You might be seeing that some control surfaces are fabric covered, not metal. I believe all P-51s had a fabric rudder and the elevators varied depending on date of manufacture or retrofit. The elevators switched to metal with the P-51D-20-NA block and were often retrofitted to earlier blocks. The retrofit would not have happened before February or March 1945 at the earliest.Looking good... I am wondering what's the backstory of the Matte wing panels and rudder?
Looking good... I am wondering what's the backstory of the Matte wing panels and rudder?