How about a little color

JohnB · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:36 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

Interesting picture of the Mustang with pre 1947 star and bar on the wing, and post 1947 on the fusualage.

Judging by the overall condition of the paint, perhaps it just faded in the sun?

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

Mark:

Nice thread & excellent pictures. Will you plz post a better resolution/angles of the yellow prime FG-1D Corsair??

Tks in advance

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 8:16 pm

I believe the OD B-17s posted on the last page are from the movie "The War Lover." The faked-up armament and non-standard markings are a dead giveaway.

SN

billtate · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:21 pm

From Robbie Stuart; "The Navy aircraft with the "B" tail codes, would those be NAS Atlanta aircraft?"

Hey, Robbie, the F4U-4 Corsairs on the Princeton CV-37 appear to be planes from VF-193 'Ghostriders' Korea 1952. Even though VF-671 from NAS Atlanta was called to active duty during the Korean Conflict they did not serve in the Pacific only the Mediterranean Sea. If they were reserve aircraft doing carrier quals for their two week summer camp they would not have had bomb/mission marks on the fuselage and they would have had the Orange band applied around the aft fuselage .
Cheers Bill

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/article ... hp?aid=910

JDK · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:59 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

JDK wrote:

That's the problem with these mixed bag picture threads. Fun as they are, some stuff gets lost, some gets buried, and there ends up a lot of repeating and 'correcting' the same questions and answers. I'm not criticising Matk's posting the pics, I certainly don't know what the answer is to the issue.

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Neat thread, should have kept it on one tho.

See there you go, I get flak for not putting everything in one thread and now flak for "mixed bag picture threads" UGH!!! haha! just kidding, well James can you at least try to spell my name right :wink:

If I don't post these nice photos, who will? Seriously, I know I'm probably causing "brain overload" here, but like certain magazines, I just like to look at the pictures haha.

Whoops, sorry for the Liz Dexic moment.

Cheers,

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 11:35 am

billtate wrote:

From Robbie Stuart; "The Navy aircraft with the "B" tail codes, would those be NAS Atlanta aircraft?"

Hey, Robbie, the F4U-4 Corsairs on the Princeton CV-37 appear to be planes from VF-193 'Ghostriders' Korea 1952. Even though VF-671 from NAS Atlanta was called to active duty during the Korean Conflict they did not serve in the Pacific only the Mediterranean Sea. If they were reserve aircraft doing carrier quals for their two week summer camp they would not have had bomb/mission marks on the fuselage and they would have had the Orange band applied around the aft fuselage .
Cheers Bill

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/article ... hp?aid=910

Thanks Bill, I had a feeling that these were not 671 birds.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

The Inspector · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 11:05 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

A few more for you :wink:

I don't know about you guys but I love old color photos of airplanes.

44347965 l/n 25226 (originally allocated c/n 13781) C-47A-30-DK to SVNAF

C VEICH · **Joined:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:40 pm **Posts:** 1455

Fantastic thread with some great photos, many of which I've never seen before. I'm gonna have to call "fake" on the Do-217 pic though. Almost guarantee that one is a plastic models photoshopped into a picture. Also, the Corsair shot is really nice but I wondering if that one has been colorized. If it is it's been done very well but it just does not look quite "right" to my eye for some reason.

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 11:25 am

Nice shot of Chappy James.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 11:29 am

C VEICH wrote:

Fantastic thread with some great photos, many of which I've never seen before. I'm gonna have to call "fake" on the Do-217 pic though. Almost guarantee that one is a plastic models photoshopped into a picture. Also, the Corsair shot is really nice but I wondering if that one has been colorized. If it is it's been done very well but it just does not look quite "right" to my eye for some reason.

Corsair shot just looks like a nice, deep saturation KODACHROME 4X5 slide. You know, the kind of stuff your digital can never get.

CWBuff · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:14 am **Posts:** 854

The Dornier... yeeeeahh... nice try, kinda, to whoever made that one.

The Corsair shot looks to be genuine color... it does have a wongo look to it, though. Could have been scanned from an older printed source... the color in alotta older books and rags has a weird look to it. It really depends on the printing process used, as well as the film. Not everyone shot Kodachrome and not all color film is created equal.

Fade to Black...

The Inspector · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 11:44 am

An awful lot of Nat Geos during WW2 had a weird, semi washed out appearance to the color shots, not sure if it was the film, camera, or the printing process on clay based slick paper.

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