Great, Mike. I like your bleached-out olive drab with the freshly applied colour on the tail fins. Will provide great immersion!

Just checked some of my skins and both "Dreambaby" and "Arf & Arf" both have the staggered waist guns, if that's what you're after. If not, it's dead easy to move the gun barrels.




I also discovered that Arf & arf has the wrong .tpc files uploaded into it - it's only been like it for 5 years before I noticed it .... On a more positive note, it appears that I can still remember how to upload and link an image into a post

Iron Mike, It's always nice to hear that some of my stuff has been usefull to you guys, so thanks. I also learned from tutorials, so it was only fair to give something back. In the early days of EAW, Mosi was the skinning master and we were all aspiring to create skins half a good as his. It is thanks to his tutorials that a lot of us 'oldies' learned the best ways to create a nice skin.

I have heaps of different layered templates for various F and G models if you are interested in them. I think the placement of the waist and nose guns/windows is the main difference in most of them though. Keep up the good work!

Chompy

Thanks. And, yes I'm interested in the profiles. I've gone through those with the tutorials and used them to learn layering. In spite of repeated attempts I'm afraid that I still don't get 3dz stuff. Moving the barrels is one of the things that would be needed.

The later model G's waist windows were enclosed and the guns in a different position than in the current skins. (More in the middle of the window). It is a slight change but just painting them doesen't do the trick.

On the F's the upper turret was more a flat topped button shape.

You may notice that I tried to portray the differences in nose window and gun positions amoung the F's and early G's from the first set.

XR-F "Gold Brick" 26 November, 1943 - 1 June, 1945



XR-W "Terrible Termite" Pathfinder aircraft 1944



2nd box 349th Bomb Squadron

B17G 349th Bomb Squadron 100th Bomb Group (Heavy) 1943-45


XR-J 297834 Mud In Yer Eye

3 May/1944 Assigned to UK
11 September/1944 FTR - Fighters - Schuiedeberg, ?

Pilot: LT ORVILLE C EVERITT MACR: 08819
Crew: 7 KIA, 2 POW
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XR-N 231986 Once in'a While

26 Febuary/1944 Assigned to UK
9 November/1944 FTR - Saarbrucken, Germany, Crashed due to flak damage

Pilot: 2LT LEWIS C WILLIAMS MACR:
Crew: 1 KIA, 6 RMC, 2 WIA

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XR-H 338011 The Reluctant Dragon

11 July/1944
30 November/1944 RFO- battle damage
1 December Salvaged

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XR-G 238053 Cap'n Crow

20 January/1944 Assigned to UK
7 May/1944 TOA - Mechanical - Herringfleet Hall, UK - 2Lt Ralph W. Wright - 5 KIA, 5 RMC

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XR-F 237972 Gold Brick

26 November/1943 Assigned to UK
1 June/1945 Returned Zone of the Interior - Bradley

17 December/1945 Kingman, Arizona Scrapped

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XR-W 297696 Terrible Termite
349th pathfinder

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XR-A 231987 Shilaylee

9 March/1944 assigned to UK
31 December/1944 FTR MidAir with 338457 Rustringen, Germany
3kia 6pow Lt G Rojohn

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XR-B 2107230 Yehudi

21 April - 2 December,1944

Airframe damaged in spin salvaged 5 December

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XR-D 297806 Now An' Then

3 May/1944 Assigned to UK
11 September/1944 FTR - Fighters - Liepnitzsen, ? *1

Pilot: 2LT CHARLES E BAKER MACR: 08818
Crew: 6 KIA, 3 POW



*1 11 September/1944 was a bad day for the 349th with heavy losses.

The 349th is finished, now 6 from the 350th.



XR-A 'Shilaylee'


XR-B 'Yehudi'



XR-D 'Now An' Then'

For some reason, all the second section (Page 2 on my SimHQ browser)is blank. No text. No pics.
The first section is fine (where I have to write this).
So I am missing your great work, Mike.

It may have something to do with my sign-on problems that I have with SimHQ. But all else works fine.

The post shows fine here. Looks like you are still having a problem Wud.

Wud, its not blank, in browser scroll to the right ---> on that page, the reason is a crazy BBCode now on the 'full reply' page, that aligns images, very annoying!

Oh yes, blame Ralf.... His reply over the post was 9 gazillion characters in one line

Hi Ralf, thanks for the praise