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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Warbirdsim P-51D-5-NA Little Friends II OUT NOW! (Pay-ware)

aussieman: those layers are just bitmaps, you can delete any individual pixel if you want

skyhawk: this one you mean, right?

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and meanwhile I continue to populate Iwo, not all of the aircraft there had fancy names or beautiful girls adorning their sides..

Lt. Anderstrom ot the 458th FS flew this Mustang:

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Thanks for your help mate. Here is a shot of the result:

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With the information I have from Stewart Wilson's great book "Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk in Australian Service" I was able to make the appropriate changes.

It now reads:

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
CAC MK21 P-51D NA
SERIAL No 1332 A-68-107 (The 1332 was the CAC builder's number)

A few final checks and I think I will upload it.
 
yes sir!


jankees said:
aussieman: those layers are just bitmaps, you can delete any individual pixel if you want

skyhawk: this one you mean, right?

FX14157.jpg


and meanwhile I continue to populate Iwo, not all of the aircraft there had fancy names or beautiful girls adorning their sides..

Lt. Anderstrom ot the 458th FS flew this Mustang:

FX14164.jpg
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AussieMan said:
Some more showing WIP.

Think I have the shine just about right.

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Hope to have some shots of this bird taking flight later today.
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Pat

Try hiding all the weathering layers, dirt and smoke, and the acid etching. I wouldn't imagine it would be seen on a sparkly red-painted civilian bird (dunno, may be wrong). Will look great when done I'm sure and different to what most of us do - which is really interesting and refreshing!

The patch for the gun camera in the left wing root is in the black rectangle with the red rectangle in the centre at the top of P-51D_2_t. It works from the alpha channel which carries the lettering in white. I've never messed with it personally but that's where the answer lies to getting rid of it. Suggest you try putting some red where the gun camera stencil is in the normal channel and black out the lettering in the alpha.

Best wishes

DaveQ

PS Great paints Jan Kees and Taff!
 
Thanks for that Dave, I have noticed it there and wondered where it fitted into the scheme of things. I am enjoying this adventure and learn something different every day.

I have considered leaving off all the oil leaks but leaving the fuel leaks there on the wings as most of the restored Aussie 'stangs had the internal fuel tank removed and in some cases a seat put in there for a passenger. A calssic example of this are A68-39 (VH-BOY) and A68-199 (VH-BOZ) were owned by the Illawarra Flying School in the 60s and 70s and used as target tugs for the RAN. This necessitated a winch operator sitting behind the pilot. Both aircraft had 110 gallon metal drop tanks fitted. Not sure if it is part of the model or not. Hence the question as how to create a repaint of these aircraft with these tanks fitted. Would appreciate some advice as how to write a cfg for such a set up.
 
Can anyone tell me if any of the models in the Little Friends NA II or the restored and Restored 2 have modelling for an aircraft to have drop tanks please. Several of the RAAF and Restored RAAF 'stangs in private hands were contracted to the Navy as target tugs and had either the 75 gallon or 110 gallon tanks for this purpose. Also because of the long distances some have to fly to attend air shows they also use drop tanks.

The planes I plan to repaint all had drop tanks at one time and would be nice to include them with a choice of cfg files for installation.



EDIT: Problem solved thanks to Dave Q. Ii do ask some of the dumbest questions :) :)
 
All finished .... I hope

After many false starts I think these are ready for upload later tonight.

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When uploaded if anyone finds any mistakes let me know and I will do an upgrade.
 
The red one is nice, but the silver one has a few bugs I think:
I'd have another look at the roundels on the fuselage of the silver one, they don't look right to me.
Also, it should have the registration (VH-AUB) below the wings
Finally, the font of the serial should be different, and the anti-glare panel looks like black to me..

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I like the red one Pat!!

Here's what I've been playing with. I've often tried to get a shot of the 'Bottisham Four' but until now there was no way of getting a fillet-free D-5. So far Formation Set-up will only let me load two and the Warbirdsim B just gallops away from the D's, thus I can get Sky Bouncer and Suzy G in shot but not E2-S.

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Anybody got any better ideas?

DaveQ
 
Thanks for the feedback JK. I took the measurements for the roundels from John's A68-1. The colours came from a swatch I found at Simmers Paint Shop. The roundels and flash are actually slightly deeper in colour than shown there.

That is the first photo I have seen of AUB showing under the wing. As for the font I was never 100% satisfied and am searching for a better font. I will be working on an update over the next few days and hope to fix everything that is wrong with this one.

I pretty much left the glare panel as is because of the text on the cowlings. If someone could show me some photos of the text on the filler flaps then I can replace it with white text which would allow me to make it black. Will keep looking.

Overall for a first up effort I think I went pretty well. But then that's my opinion :)
 
Good stuff Pat...one day hoefully I wil have time to learn the art of repainting. I swear I saw you on the TV news the other day in a chopper while flying over some floods in Aussie?
 
DaveQ said:
Too right Pat! Keep up the good work!

DaveQ
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Thanks Dave. I have done an update of the file I uploaded last night. Being a retired gentleman I was able to make the following changes today.

I adjusted the size of the roundels on the fuselage, changed the font on the serial, changed the glare panel to black, added VH-AUB under the port wing and reduced the shine a little more.
 
Naki said:
Good stuff Pat...one day hoefully I wil have time to learn the art of repainting. I swear I saw you on the TV news the other day in a chopper while flying over some floods in Aussie?
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Don't think it was me. The only floods I have been to and flown in a helicopter was March/April 2010 when I was sent to Walgett as an Air Radio Operator for the Rural Fire Service.
 
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