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| Author: | Wolfman [ July 7th, 2014, 2:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
Very nice, Colo! |
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| Author: | signal [ July 7th, 2014, 9:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
These drawings are wonderful! I have several books on U.S.N. "fast" battleships (Washington, N. Carolina, & S.Dakota class) and the published illustrations are really not as good as yours. |
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| Author: | nighthunter [ July 9th, 2014, 5:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
Colo, certainly not trying to nitpick, but the Kingfisher, on the '41 version of BB-55, shouldn't it have rudder stripes? |
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| Author: | Colosseum [ July 9th, 2014, 5:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
The illustration I used as an example came from a Squadron/Signal book (US Navy Floatplanes in action), and the plane does not have the rudder stripes. Admittedly I'm not an expert on the floatplane colorations so I could be wrong... show me some definitive proof and I'll fix it. 
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| Author: | Wolfman [ July 9th, 2014, 5:41 pm ] | |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship | |
The illustration I used as an example came from a Squadron/Signal book (US Navy Floatplanes in action), and the plane does not have the rudder stripes. Admittedly I'm not an expert on the floatplane colorations so I could be wrong... show me some definitive proof and I'll fix it.
Hey, I've got a copy of that book!
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| Author: | nighthunter [ July 9th, 2014, 6:35 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship | ||
The illustration I used as an example came from a Squadron/Signal book (US Navy Floatplanes in action), and the plane does not have the rudder stripes. Admittedly I'm not an expert on the floatplane colorations so I could be wrong... show me some definitive proof and I'll fix it.
Hey, I've got a copy of that book! |
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| Author: | heuhen [ July 9th, 2014, 6:38 pm ] | |||
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship | |||
The illustration I used as an example came from a Squadron/Signal book (US Navy Floatplanes in action), and the plane does not have the rudder stripes. Admittedly I'm not an expert on the floatplane colorations so I could be wrong... show me some definitive proof and I'll fix it.
Hey, I've got a copy of that book! |
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| Author: | Colosseum [ July 12th, 2014, 5:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
Cool story guys... do you have any useful commentary on whether or not the tail stripes should be present? Information on BB-55's air group is admittedly pretty scarce and I only included a floatplane on the catapult because I happened to find an example of the Kingfisher paint scheme that matched the timeframe displayed. The same publication also mentions that BB-55's aircraft were not attached to any particular VO (observation) squadron, but that they were just assigned to the ship... I found this interesting, but as always could not find any additional information on it anywhere on the internet, and I have no books that would help validate the claim... |
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| Author: | Wolfman [ July 18th, 2014, 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
Okay, Colo, according to Squadron/Signal's OS2U Kingfisher in action the OS2U-2 Kingfishers assigned to USS North Carolina were overall light grey with white lettering 12" tall, with no mention of rudder stripes. |
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| Author: | eswube [ July 18th, 2014, 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Carolina class battleship |
Excellent work! |
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