Little Miss Mischief (1 Viewer)

[Blowtorch]

Really nice job on the USAAF dark olive drab. you nailed it.

 

[The Military Workshop]

I see Andy's diversion of a big plane has made people miss the female figure in the 2nd photo{sm4}. I don't recognise her.

 

[jazzeum]

Brett,

I think that's the Kay Sommersby figure from the Eisenhower set.

Brad

 

[MarkeytMaker]

Re: Little Miss Mischief "Look what flew over my house yesterday"

The B-17G "Sentimental Journey" flew over my house yesterday...sounded & looked really cool!

 

[ucla1967]

A masterpiece from K&C, as usual. When I first saw the photos, I thought that the gray was primer over the aluminum. Someone else called it aluminum. Which is it? Also, which ever it is, I wonder how common such a partial paint job was and why they would deliver it that way from the factory.

 

[Blowtorch]

A masterpiece from K&C, as usual. When I first saw the photos, I thought that the gray was primer over the aluminum. Someone else called it aluminum. Which is it? Also, which ever it is, I wonder how common such a partial paint job was and why they would deliver it that way from the factory.

I think it is aluminum, but am not a plane expert, though have tripped over a few references while reading on tanks. I'm not sure if the zinc chromate primer was used in the absence of OD camo, so it is probably just bare aluminum. The reason for the OD on the engines & the nose is probably for pilot visibility (suppression of reflection). The reason for OD on the tail could be for several reasons. either it is a new machine assembled in the US consisting of parts from different factories made at different times under different specification requirements, or the plane was damaged in battle & reassembled in England from legacy parts (the tail) in storage. I can't say it is common, but it wasn't uncommon either, as I have seen a fare share of Thunderbolts, B-17s, & C-47s with this kind of modular paint treatment

Toward the end of the war planes started dropping the OD lacquer & just going bare aluminum for several reasons, one to get increased range as the paint added weight to the plane, and the second was air supremacy. The OD paint that planes & bombs sported was IR reflecting so if the Luftwaffe made a recon flight at night, the planes would not show up on their IR film. As the Luftwaffe became past history, this threat became nonexistent & they didn't care if Goering knew where the B-17s where or not.