[Tundra04]

Originally Posted by leeG

Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces #36 - P-39 Airacobra Aces of World War 2, has a color profile of Bud Anderson's P-39Q-10 42-20746 OLD CROW on page 26, color plate 21. All olive drab. Only color is a red band just behind the spinner. White '152' on the nose and the door has a yellow circle emblem with the skull head pierced by a sword. "OLD CROW" is in very small letters low on the nose below the tactical number.

See, that proves my point about the different variations floating around. The correct squadron emblem color is blue, not yellow.

[Steve1971]

I have toyed with the idea of buying either the Accurate Miniatures 1/48th P-39 kit or the Hasegawa P-39 kit because they both have decals for Maj Anderson's P-39. What always makes me hold back is the damn price! $31.00 and some change is pretty spendy for a 1/48th model kit but being a big fan of the 357th FG and of Maj Anderson's I might break down and get one. I have his 1/18th Old Crow P-51 (21st Century) and I might have to buy the P-39 kit just to build and add to my collection

[Tundra04]

Originally Posted by Steve1971

I have toyed with the idea of buying either the Accurate Miniatures 1/48th P-39 kit or the Hasegawa P-39 kit because they both have decals for Maj Anderson's P-39. What always makes me hold back is the damn price! $31.00 and some change is pretty spendy for a 1/48th model kit but being a big fan of the 357th FG and of Maj Anderson's I might break down and get one. I have his 1/18th Old Crow P-51 (21st Century) and I might have to buy the P-39 kit just to build and add to my collection

The Accurate Miniatures kit shows the wrong paint scheme (based on information from Jim Anderson,) the correct blue squadron emblem color, but with an incorrect depiction of the skull. The Hasegawa kit has the correct paint scheme, incorrect yellow squadron emblem, and the correct skull. Such a pain!

[rdenham]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

That's a great picture of the P-39 near Mt.Shasta ...
I look at Mt.Shasta every day in my back window..
I was told at one time Redding & Oroville had these P-39's here
during the war.
JP

My father grew up in Redding during the war years and said he remebered P-38's at what is now Redding Municipal Airport & B-17's based at Chico CA.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by rdenham

My father grew up in Redding during the war years and said he remebered P-38's at what is now Redding Municipal Airport & B-17's based at Chico CA.

Thats cool....The old runway is still there and now is known as the Redding Drag strip..It's on the east side of the Redding Municipal Airport..My Grandfather lived in Red Bluff and when i was a kid
i come up here to Red Bluff and see him and he always took me flying in PT-17 he had since his airshow days and we would land at the Redding Airport and there used to be a old P-51D Mustang that was there for years...I even got in that thing and played in it.......He did tell me alot about the bases here during the war and he knew Mr.Anderson during that time too but i can't remember the details of a story he once told me about the guys in their P-39's in the Oroville area...I'll have to ask my mother if she knows of them..Because my Grandfather at the time was a flight instructor at the Rankin Aeronautical Academy, a civilian flight school for the Army Air Corp. Graduating cadets were well trained in aerobatics. Twelve became WWII aces.
I would really hope to see HM make Mr.Andserson's Old Crow then i have all his WWII era planes.
JP

[Shawn 507]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

I would really hope to see HM make Mr.Andserson's Old Crow then i have all his WWII era planes.
JP

Then all we'd need is his F-86 and F-105.

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by leeG

Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces #36 - P-39 Airacobra Aces of World War 2, has a color profile of Bud Anderson's P-39Q-10 42-20746 OLD CROW on page 26, color plate 21. All olive drab. Only color is a red band just behind the spinner. White '152' on the nose and the door has a yellow circle emblem with the skull head pierced by a sword. "OLD CROW" is in very small letters low on the nose below the tactical number.

And I think that is the correct paint scheme.

[Tundra04]

Originally Posted by hawkonevoodoo

And I think that is the correct paint scheme.

Correct paint scheme...wrong squadron emblem color.

[Shawn 507]

Hummm does this mean Hawk is sending this forward with recomendations??

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by Tundra04

Correct paint scheme...wrong squadron emblem color.

So the emblem is light blue with a white skull?