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The Staff of SOH
Skylane has inspired me ...to keep painting
- Thread starter UncleTgt
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Jagdflieger
Jr. Admin
I like 'em too!
CFS 2 still is the best inspiration and canvas for historic repaints as well as carrier ops out on the high seas.
Ian Astill
Charter Member 2012
Love your work, Have you considered doing some skins for the WWI birds? The Aerocrate planes are brilliant but a few of them would benefit a couple of skins (SE5A and the two seaters?)
Blood_Hawk23
Charter Member
When did they do the yellow around the Roundels?
was that only for 42'?
i know we had a few veriations through out the war. wasn't red used in the ETO? i can't remember now.
kelticheart
Charter Member
Hi Blood_Hawk23,
the mid-war evolution US roundels with the star-'n-bar was first issued with a red outline from, I believe, June 1943 to September 1943 in any theatre American forces operated and for all branches of the US Armed Forces operating aircrafts. In October 1943 the red outline was replaced by the same dark blue used for the rest of the roundel. Too bad, if I may, because I always liked a lot the short-lived, red-outlined US roundel. I am not entirely sure of the exact months, I'll have to take a look in my sources when I go home from work. Anyway, it was used only in summer and early fall of 1943.
The US roundel remained the same throughout WWII, until the United States Air Force became an independent branch in 1946, when a thin insignia red line was added in the middle of the lateral bars of the roundel.
A comment for UncleTgt's new repaints:
Cheers!KH :ernae:
kelticheart
Charter Member
OK, I checked my Aerospace's "Aircraft" publication: the red-outlined US roundel was in use July through September 1943.
Cheers!KH :ernae:
gaucho_59
Charter Member
Hi Blood_Hawk23,
the mid-war evolution US roundels with the star-'n-bar was first issued with a red outline from, I believe, June 1943 to September 1943 in any theatre American forces operated and for all branches of the US Armed Forces operating aircrafts. In October 1943 the red outline was replaced by the same dark blue used for the rest of the roundel. Too bad, if I may, because I always liked a lot the short-lived, red-outlined US roundel. I am not entirely sure of the exact months, I'll have to take a look in my sources when I go home from work. Anyway, it was used only in summer and early fall of 1943.
The US roundel remained the same throughout WWII, until the United States Air Force became an independent branch in 1946, when a thin insignia red line was added in the middle of the lateral bars of the roundel.
A comment for UncleTgt's new repaints:
wow! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!
KH :ernae:
Small correction... the US Air Force did no exist in 1946!
Since WW1 and during most of WW2 it was the United States Army Air Corps.... Then it became... sometime around 1944... the USAAF... or Unite States Army Air Force...
and officially, the USAF or US Air Force came into being in 1948... today celebrated as the USAF birthday... through executive order by Pres. Harry S. Truman...