more from the 339th FG

[jcblom]

P-51D 44-14372 5Q-E "Beaver Chant" as flown by Capt. Richard C. "Slick"Penrose, of Orland CA, who flew with the 504th Fighter Squadron, 339th Fighter Group, from Fowlmere, UK. The name Beaver Chant was derived from Slick’s university, Oregon State, where the sports teams are known as “Beavers” with the chant being the supporters’ encouragement chant. The colours of the lettering were intended to be in the Beaver’s colours of orange and black but the crew could not obtain orange paint so it ended up more like a yellow on blue. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by A2A.
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P-51D 44-72282 5Q-M "Watonga State Bank - Safe and Dependable" as flown by Lt Lawrence J. "Jack" Barrett of Watonga, OK. He too served with the 504th Fighter Squadron, 339th Fighter Group, from Fowlmere, UK.
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happy flying,

Jan Kees

[robert41]

Thanks Jankees.

[Lewis - A2A]

Very nice Jankees, have you updated your spec workings?, the lighting and reflection on in particular on the second paint in the post looks very subtle, very nice!

cheers,
Lewis

[jcblom]

thank you Lewis, yes, I did change the specs a bit

[Lewis - A2A]

thought so, good stuff. I like the subtleness and the 'it shines under certain light' of it, the realism of it too as its how it was during WW2 rather than the high polish of today's sought after warbirds. Nice to have a good selection (massive selection!) of WW2 era Mustangs to fly along with the modern warbird classics

thanks,
Lewis