Twelve 'O'Clock High - AH-B-17F

Ian Warren said:
I simply left the books open from last night, come back this morning with ... Willy , maybe give me an extra charge, I like your idea:untroubled: ... Spray and Paint and Walk Away.
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A lot of times when I've stepped away for a bit, I get a new idea on how to do something that I probably wouldn't have got if I'd kept slogging away at it. I took a break from starting any new P-80 paints this morning and cleaned up my template bitmaps for some better detail. I'm used to working with FS9 and keep forgetting that in FSX, you can get a lot more detail into one.
 
Willy truthfully I think it comes down to putting the extra's in, you have to walk away .... most times is fly what you have got and study it and look, that makes it a double whammy .. best off both worlds:encouragement:
 
Little friends?

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glh said:
I went to Joe Baugher's Aircraft Serial Number web site and downloaded ALL the B-17F data. Data for 42-5836 follows (inclusive in a block of 50 B-17F's):

42-5805 ... 42-5854
Lockheed/Vega B-17F-25-VE Fortress
c/n 6101/6150

5836 (2nd BG, 49th BS) lost Jan 24, 1944. MACR 1993

If you want a copy of the file, let me know where to send it. It is a 345kB text file.
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Sorry GLH , I missed your posting , that is a lot off work to compiled by Joe , very handy for future reference :encouragement:
 
When I'm doing research for a paint, Joe's has been a regular stop for years. Usually to see if he has anything on that particular aircraft (I like to have as complete a history on it as I can). I'm thinking about doing some fictional 1946 era P-80 paints and found a block of canceled P-80 tail numbers at Joe's that I can use so the rivet counters can't fuss about what the aircraft really looked like.
 
I think its great with this resource, It amazing how much information comes back after stating an interesting topic, then again its amazing how much information was thrown away without thinking and not documented with the thought others want to see it even the seventy years later.
It is just as much fun doing the research but sometimes at lot has to go to the artist licence department. :untroubled:
 
Off course "Mother and Country is fiction , tail number go's with but off course you need a Boeing to go with the 'Belle'
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Its a start "Mother and Country" to Flightsim.com, I changed it with a B17-10-15 with the nose astrodome, thought it a little more appropriate to meet the movie model. Now to look at another .... "Idiots Delight" always stuck me in the center page off Roger A. Freeman's B-17 Fortress at War :encouragement:
 
dhasdell, :engel016: Almost known as one off the iconic WWII B-17 photos, I saw the caption mentioned in a photo day or so back .
 
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