A2A Korean War P-51

[bentwing]

F-51D, 55-11736,12th FBS, 18th FBG, 5th AF, Korea. Almost done, but still a few things to work out.

About the tanks: my understanding is 75 gal. drop tanks were painted yellow, retrofited with grenade detonators, and used as napalm cannisters.

Uploaded here and Flightsim.com.

Hope you like it!

http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/bentwing/FF-736/2012-8-26_19-53-50-306.jpg

http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/bentwing/FF-736/2012-8-26_19-51-53-708.jpg

[skyhawka4m]

:salute:

[fsxar177]

This one is really different... I like it! Thanks!

[bentwing]

Thanks, and you're welcome. It was a fun one to do.:mixedsmi:

[skyhawka4m]

Love these late paints.......I really need to get going on my ANG paints. this one is very nice!!!

[pilottj]

Great paint BW :)

Hey Skyhawk, I have an ANG repaints list by state thread going over at the A2A P-51 forum, let me know if you get yours uploaded and I'll add it to the list. :salute::icon29:

http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=30733

Cheers
TJ

[bentwing]

While filing away my source images I noticed a problem with FF-736. The canopy frame changes color!

I don't have a photo of FF-736, so I was working from 3 artists renditions, and they all are different. My primary source shows the canopy rail black. My second source shows it blue, with no paint on the vertical frame. My third source shows everything blue as well as the front and side windscreen frames.

Not sure how I missed this, but I did. I don't have a photo of FF-736, so I'm not sure which is accurate, or if they all were at different points in time.

To try to be as historically accurate as possible, an optional P-51_t.dds to match the canopy in my second source may be found here:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/91484985/p51d_t.dds

Sorry for the mix up!

http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/bentwing/FF-736/2012-8-27_19-22-46-713.jpg