P-51D "Bald Eagle" 2019

[Bomber_12th]

I just uploaded this repaint tonight. It depicts the P-51D N51JB owned/operated by Jim Beasley, Jr., as it appears now in 2019. Back, prior to the 2018 airshow season, the aircraft was stripped, polished, and repainted. Instead of the glossy paint and inaccurate insignia blue upper surfaces it had previously, it is now finished in flat paint and RAF dark green upper surfaces, accurate to the original wartime "Bald Ealge" (which was actually a P-51B). The gun bays were also refinished with yellow zinc chromate. Two versions of the repaint are included - one for "Mustang Tales" and another for the "Restored Part 2" models.

This aircraft participated in the USAF Heritage Flight at the Indianapolis 500 today.

[Bomber_12th]

A few more shots.

[modelr]

Beautiful work, as usual, John. Looking forward to adding this to the flightline, when it shows up in the library.

Thanks for all your nice textures.

Don H

[ColoKent]

....I believe Rich Palmer is the lead mechanic on that bird. Rich "Primate" Palmer (as we called him then) was my first Flight Sergeant in Civil Air Patrol in Southern California, 1977-78 (when I was 16-17 years old). Whatever he said regarding military discipline, I must have listened. Ended up getting commissioned and doing 29 years (4.5 active, 24.5 reserve) in the USAF. Thanks for everything you did back in the CAP days, Rich!

Kent

[Duckie]

An honest to goodness work of art John, both the real and simulated, plane and paint!

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the repaint - I've got several more I need to upload that I've been sitting on too long, most of which are updated versions of past repaints, like this one.

ColoKent, Rich is an absolute wealth of knowledge! He is one of the moderators and very active contributors on the P-51 Mustang group Facebook page, and his experience in warbirds goes back to the 70's, with the Planes of Fame Air Museum. In doing this repaint, I used a bunch of Rich's photos (both outside and inside the airplane).

[downwind]

Saw that plane yesterday in the honor flight at the Indy 500 race. It also circled above my neighborhood as I posted earlier with the P-40. A-10, and F-16. Prior to the the race the two modern planes did a cameo performance including a hign-speed, banked pass by the A-10 and an afterburner vertical climb by the F-16.

[DaveQ]

Outstanding as always John. All I can say is who needs PBR? Makes my PBR make-over look shabby.!

DaveQ

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you Dave - your PBR conversions look great, and certainly have me itching to work with those material standards going forward in P3D.

This will be uploaded tonight (all new version of a repaint I made several years back).

[c87]

John, thanks for the beautiful paints. I have to ask: how do you get such crisp screenshots? Do you use nvidia inspector or something like that? Would love to know how you get those magical shots.

[Bomber_12th]

I run FSX in DX10 mode with "Steve's DX10 Scenery Fixer", so the settings setup is different than running DX9 FSX.

In the "DX10 Scenery Fixer", I have the DX10 anti aliasing set for 8x.

Right now, in Nvidia Inspector, I have the settings at:

Antialiasing Behavior Flags - None
Antialiasing Mode - Override Any Application Setting
Antialiasing Setting - 16xS
Antialiasing Transparency Super Sampling - 8x Sparse Grid Supersampling

Here are a few more screenshots of "Hell-er Bust" that I liked (hoping to have a new one, "Dakota Kid", uploaded tomorrow).

[c87]

Thanks for the reply, John. Wonderful screenshots.