WIP Mega THREAD!

[+daddyairplanes]

On 12/2/2025 at 2:30 AM, Wrench said:

I'll just leave this here for now ... (serials are placeholders)

just tagged you into a very old pm thread on that topic. might be helpfule might not

dont have access to the working commentary from while Centurion-1 was working on it anymore. that mightve been helpful

been toying with a revisit to this bird myself (ANG of course). along with 789 other projects 

lemme know how deep down the rabbit hole your going with this. whether its a peek in from outside or running with a watch screaming "im late"

Edited December 3 by daddyairplanes

[+Wrench]

I'm just doing 2 skins, the 516th and 524th. Using the fuselage bands Eole kindly provided on the template. Serial numbers, unfortunately, will be generic (as in "these were used by the VNAF, but unable to find which squadron). They'll be 24 of them. 

Not changing anything else, and it really don't seem to need anything else!

[+daddyairplanes]

i wasnt quite as research heavy when i did the ANG skins and the serials are also very generic

as for VNAF, joe baugher should tell ya what serials went there. but given how VNAF Herks went, there wont be much matchin beyond that. and those only had 22 serials to consider (iirc, 3 were not strictcly matched). will look up the site this weekend that i got the Herk serials from.

appropriately, im beaucoup busy with homework the next 48 hours

 

 

 

[+daddyairplanes]

not sure if the tanks were a break from skinning, or the skinning is a break from the tanks

anywho... the last of the steam driven tankers

 

ACC edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+daddyairplanes]

Why not Minot?

cause in their last year they couldnt make up their damn minds 

[Nightshade/PR]

Ahhh Minot AFB.... The Bad Good Old Days...My reaction to the TDY ending........

[+daddyairplanes]

well, it was Grafenwhoer for me. but we were too far out in the boonies to make that practical...

meanwhile,  the old steam engines managed to make it all the way to AMC Gray before retiring. well, 3 or 4 anyhow

[+Wrench]

In for a major overhaul -- the 3W Bird Dog. Everything is being rebuilt, updated, upgraded and what can't be, "is covered by a new coat of paint"