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Are the swastikas on `Lassie` reversed deliberately or was it a clever reference to the Svasti..?

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Simon Evans

hi snave
the swastikas was deliberat its one of my calling cards on the repaint i have a few differant ones to show it was one i painted as i have had some c-130 repaints i did downloaded by some one and clamed it was there work
so this way if i see it any were other than were i put it i know its mine lol

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Well on the real "Lassie and her Lads" I don't think had swastika markings or bomb markings but Nathan got it pretty close and did a great job.One thing is that I think the Y marking on the vertical stabilizor in the pie slice is much larger in size and reaches the edge of the black pie slice according to the pictures that I have but I did notice on another photo that the sheet metal on the vertical stabilizor (has the Pie Slice with Y and the 297550 on it) seemed to have been replaced with a very shiny aluminum metal on that section.The replacment seemed quite different (shiny appearance) than the other weathered skin of the rest of the ship.That's another thing I noticed from the pictures that I have.On just one picture but it was a very good black and white photograph.I saw this on one picture on the Pictoral CD's that the 463rd Historian had.He did a great job putting the extra pie slice and Y's on the vertical stabilizors.We don't know if she had these but these were quite common on the NMF ships of the 463rd BG.We had missed these before on some earlier repaints that he did (It was my fault actually).

No,I am not asking to correct this Nath I think you did a great job and it catches the feel of her pretty well.
I'll be sure to take her up soon.
Thanks-Jon

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Son of a U.S.A.A.F. 15th Air Force 463rd bomb group 772nd squadron B17 pilot.
Video of my dad on a B-17(So you can kind of meet him-he passed away in 2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGOP53TkGtA

well its an improvement on the last one i did lol

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Yeah quite a bit.I'll save the other one though as it was nice although not as realistic.

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Son of a U.S.A.A.F. 15th Air Force 463rd bomb group 772nd squadron B17 pilot.
Video of my dad on a B-17(So you can kind of meet him-he passed away in 2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGOP53TkGtA

i named this one differently so you could keep both on with no conflicts

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Understand completely!

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Simon Evans

but still not meny people notice you got a good eye snave lol

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this is sweet pea from the 99th bg
although the b-17 was real it was unnamed and the nose art and name are fictional but were requested by another member
but its now on my wed site on the b-17 accusim page 2 http://nathansfsxrepaints.webeden.co.uk ... 4540955750

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That will be repaint number 100. Thanks!

100 lol hope you got the time to fly them all
any way i still have more repaints on the way

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a repaint of Amazin Maizie 301st bg and is on my site for download (b-17 accusim page 2)

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42-102604 "Mac's High Hats" 710th 447th BG May 1944 and January 1945,
Forced landing on the Continent on January 10 1945; written off and salvaged.
and is now on my site for download (on b-17 accusim page 2)

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42-31519 cloud nine 709th BS 447th BG Damaged over Berlin on April 29, 1944; ditched in Channel.
and is now on my site for download

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Great Job on Amazin Maizie Nath and the other 2 ones are works of art.

BTW I made a new big discovery about Lassie and her Lads and you wouldn't believe it after all this time.
From several pictures on the 3rd Pictoral CD of the 463rd BG I can now discern that the vertical stabilizor was not a shiny replacement sheet of metal, incredibly on one picture (It was a crew photo another crew) I could discern that the whole section that included the Pie Slice with Y,the Tail Number and the Girl was painted Yellow just like the rudder.The reason why is that I compared the contrast shade of the vertical stabilizor to the shade of the rudder and they were exactly the same yet differed with the shade of the rest of the aircraft.In fact on that picture only the outline of the girl could be seen as her flesh color wasn't painted as yet at that point in time.Then on another later set of photos (2 of them) a black border line was painted on the rivits seperating the vertical stabilizor from the dorsel section and another black line separating the vertical stabilizor from the body of the aircraft.In those 2 photos the girls flesh looks painted ( I thought that you did a great job on the girl).

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Son of a U.S.A.A.F. 15th Air Force 463rd bomb group 772nd squadron B17 pilot.
Video of my dad on a B-17(So you can kind of meet him-he passed away in 2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGOP53TkGtA