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So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:19 pm

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Last edited by Mark Allen M on Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:11 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:24 pm

LOVE IT!!! :prayer:

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:28 pm

Project Thunderstorm (Google it).

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:30 pm

It looks neat, but with only 4 left, I couldn't go with a post-war scheme. :P

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:34 pm

Any decal manufacturers tuned in to this channel?? What a sheet for the GWH P-61 geek

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:48 pm

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Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:55 pm

The bare metal plane at the back of the line looks to have a different fuselage?


Maybe the F-15 recon model?

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:58 pm

Chris Brame wrote:
The bare metal plane at the back of the line looks to have a different fuselage?


Maybe the F-15 recon model?



Yes. There are photos of it out there (somewhere).

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:32 pm

And it sat, mostly disassembled out behind a hanger at a dusty field in Central California for years until it went to the fifth dimension decades ago.

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:56 pm

A delightful and colorful modeling idea, except that these are all P-61Cs, and no one to date has produced a C-model P-61. I have some high hopes for Great Wall, though... they have proven they are willing to listen and take suggestions and constructive criticism on board.

Lynn

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:26 pm

There is a slight chance that one of those B-17's is 44-8543 a.k.a. "Chuckie" although back then she was known as "Weather Guinea Pig". She was assigned to the All Weather Flying Service based at Clinton County Airfield in 1948. The airplane in the back looks like an A-26 if you ask me.

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:42 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:How about trying one of these on your newly restored P-61 :wink: B-17's look interesting too.

Clinton County AFB 1948

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Yep! Project Thunderstorm

http://www.myabx.com/flightweb/abx%20ai ... ty_afb.htm

It better be black or youre all racist!

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:53 pm

CrewDawg wrote:There is a slight chance that one of those B-17's is 44-8543 a.k.a. "Chuckie" although back then she was known as "Weather Guinea Pig". She was assigned to the All Weather Flying Service based at Clinton County Airfield in 1948. The airplane in the back looks like an A-26 if you ask me.

I believe Mark was reffering to the 5th aircaft in line, not the one in the far background.

'Everyone is equal in my eye....' hangman in Blazing Saddles :lol:

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:46 pm

Considering the NMUSAF's P-61 was donated to them by the Boy Scouts of Springfield, Ohio, I wonder if it isn't a former Clinton County aircraft?

Re: So you wonder what scheme to paint your P-61?

Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:37 pm

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