MacArthur's personal B-17E "Bataan" - Printable Version

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MacArthur's personal B-17E "Bataan" - Guest - 25.06.2009

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It would be nice if a talented skinner...

I know only two pictures of this plane, showing the noseart. Unfortunately no visual evidence of the Serial Number.
It is given as a B-17E, but from the shape of the glass nose cone, it looks like a B-17F...
General MacArthur used this plane from 1942 until April 1945. It would be interesting to have a skin of it, maybe to be used in a Campaign mission or two.

Here a link to a site about the subject...

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/usaaf/bataan.htm

Any taker?

Thank you in advance.

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- becky - 25.06.2009

Hello King,

anything I know about the Bataan is that the serial number was 41-2593.
But I think you rather need a modder than a skinner as she was a B-17 E with a B.17 F nose cone and no turrets at all. :roll:

cheers

becky

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- JAMF - 25.06.2009

Then a package could be made, so it included the Swoose.

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- BomberBoy - 25.06.2009

The skin part is easy. The hard(er) part would be removing the turrets and guns and putting an F nosecone on an E (the cheek windows are different, so it would have to start with an E model). Removing the turrets and guns actually isn't all that hard (except the dorsal turret, the base of it is actually part of the fuselage in the model) from a purely visual point of view, but the guns would still be there without an FM mod.

I made a skin of Gen Kenny's B-17 "Sally" a while back; I could try this one too sometime.

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- Guest - 25.06.2009



Thank you very much to you all for the answer. The information about the serial number is simply priceless!

It would be really nice if someone could give it a try! I'm not a 3d jock, and even at skinning I'm for sure far behind if compared to most of the known skinners...

I tweaked a natural metal skin of a B-17E into Gen. Kenney's "Sally", too a while ago (available at Flying Legends). I would like to see your version of it, BomberBoy, if you don't mind.

Anyway, can someone please make at least a noseart for "Bataan"? It will do while waiting for a dedicated modded B-17E on the subject.

Thank you all!

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- becky - 26.06.2009

Well, stupid question, but could somebody tell me how to put a bmp file to a PM :oops: ??

It might be the wrong section but it

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- JAMF - 26.06.2009

[quote="becky"]Well, stupid question, but could somebody tell me how to put a bmp file to a PM :oops: ??

It might be the wrong section but it

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- Guest - 26.06.2009


If needed, my Email and MSN Contact is:

col._douglas_king at hotmail.com

Cheers

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- becky - 26.06.2009

Thanks everybody, just solved the problem.

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