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huub vink
December 7th, 2010, 14:34
William R. Dunn flew as an American volunteer with the 71st (Eagle) squadron RAF. On the 27th of August he became the first American ace even before US had entered the war! There is a lot of contradicting information about how his Spitfire Mk.IIa looked when he made his 4th and 5th 'kill' in August 2th 1941.

There is one picture clearly showing the Spitfire XR-D flown by William R. Dunn during the period it was repainted in the 'new' day fighter scheme. However the picture is not dated and some claim the under surfaces kept their original 'Sky' colour.

Well this is how I think it looked ;) Standard RAF B scheme, with Sky S under surfaces.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/Huub_Vink/Billie_Dunn_1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/Huub_Vink/Billie_Dunn_2.jpg

And a picture of the real aircraft while it was repainted in the new scheme.....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/Huub_Vink/xrdbw2.jpg

Cheers,
Huub
Curtis P40
December 7th, 2010, 16:12
Enjoy your mini History lesions...:applause:
Bomber_12th
December 7th, 2010, 16:31
Very nicely done, Huub! I like the RAF B scheme upper colors, and they look good with Sky under surfaces. I also have had a great interest in Mr. Dunn's service (having been a native-born Minnesotan after all) and I look forward to adding this one to FSX! ;)
jankees
December 7th, 2010, 20:41
Looks great, Huub!
huub vink
December 11th, 2010, 10:45
This repaint has been uploaded to Avsim, Flightsim and Sim-outhouse and will be come available as soon and the adminstors approve.

From the readme:

This repaint depicts the Spitfire Mk.IIa flown by William R. Dunn from RAF 71nd (Eagle) Squadron in August 1941. William Dunn was the first American Ace of WWII, even before the USA had entered the war. 71nd Eagle squadron was one of the 3 squadrons in the RAF which were manned by American volunteers.

For this repaint the excellent paintkit from the incredible John 'Bomber_12th' Terrell was used as base.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/Huub_Vink/Billie_Dunn_3.jpg

Enjoy,
Huub
Pips
December 11th, 2010, 15:54
Beautiful paint job Huub. :) For IMHO the most pleasing Spitfire model ever produced. By the by, who's (as in developer) is it?
RobH
December 11th, 2010, 18:03
Fantastic paint work Huub!! Thank you!:ernae:
doublecool
December 11th, 2010, 20:58
Brilliant... Huub :jump:
Thank You Sir
huub vink
December 12th, 2010, 13:12
Thanks for the nice words, I'm glad you like it.

Cheers,
Huub