A2A P-51 IS HERE!

***Odie*** · June 18th, 2012, 19:28

Originally Posted by gradyhappyg

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Is this kind of what you had in mind, the warbird version?
I was working on this with the green version still have to find a photo with the registry number clear enough to read and some other details should be done soon.

Got the released version, gradyhappyg....many thanks! One of my favorite P-51 paint schemes!

**pilottj** · June 18th, 2012, 22:30

Denver Belle has been submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.

**pilottj** · June 19th, 2012, 00:45

Hey guys,
Hot on the heels of 'Denver Belle', here is Lucky Lady VII registered D-FPSI, based at Freiburg, Germany. Since I had a 364th FG template going from 'Denver Belle', I went ahead and did Lucky Lady VII. Some minor color and reflection variations from Denver Belle.

I know it isn't an exact repaint, but this is what I was shooting for.

I didn't add the pilot or crew chief's name....figured that was for the rest of us in the virtual world of FS

Submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.
Cheers
TJ

***Lewis-A2A*** · June 19th, 2012, 07:34

Great repaint, on may way to grab her now

***Lewis-A2A*** · June 19th, 2012, 12:58

Beautiful Pilot. Great job on the font

**pilottj** · June 19th, 2012, 13:32

Hey guys...another one for you all

Here is a good one for 'P-51ing' around PNW. With the 364th FG nose art template still going, I painted up N51DH, currently based at the Evergreen Aviation & Space museum, McMinville (KMMV), OR. This particular P-51 has had a few 364th FG variations on it over the years. I chose to have this repaint represent the P-51 in an Oregon ANG livery seen here.

Again it isn't 100% exact, I was lucky someone took a reasonably good picture of the bird logo...had to do some fudging to have the 'oregon' text flip on the opposite side

For ducks, I lightented the metal this time and polished the alphas a bit. Changed the 'blue' shade on the stripes a little too.

Submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.
Cheers
TJ

*note also updated spec file for Lucky Lady VII. Submitted the update to Avsim. The SOH download will have the current update prior to posting.

**pilottj** · June 19th, 2012, 20:05

While in this painting frenzy, I decided to change pace and try somthing a little different. Someone painted the P-51 in Luftwaffe colors, so I decided to paint the P-51 in Imperial Japanese Army colors...based on this KI-61 scheme. I did some 'what if' IJ schemes for the CH FW-190 a while back.

I called it 'KI-51'. Here is the result.

Cheers
TJ
Submitted to SOH and Avsim for upload.