[caldrail]

I've done a couple of experimental skins to demonstrate my point about roundels vs battle flags. You might not like them - thats okay, I'm not fussed, but have a look anyhow and say what you will...

First up is a P40 in bare metal of the Tennessee Group.



Now a flight of the Volunteer Wing heads out over the Appalachians in generic olive drab.



A B24 of the Alabama group, hastily painted to reduce confusion with olive bombers of the USAAF, heads out to bomb the railroad yards of Pennsylvania.



Modelling this years underwear, a P40 of the Georgia Group.




Now I'm not enough of an egoist to suggest my schemes are better than anyone elses. The point of these pics is to demonstrate that a roundel is very important. As much as the confederate battle flag is a rebellious icon and inspires much devotion, it remains a flag, not a roundel, and for the same reason that the RAF don't paint union jacks on their aircraft, neither should the battle flag make an appearance, whose detail is mostly invisible from a distance anyway.

You see the point? Well, I've said my piece. I quietly withdraw to the hangar.