[herbarnold99]

Any CW-21 skins out there? I'm looking for some different option for the NEI...

thx
Herb

[agracier]

I have a Japanese, a Dutch and a US skin ... this is a plane that you won't find many skis for I think ... but there is a template posted here for the CW-21. It's not that difficult to make your own skins with one of those ...

Here's a direct link to the template:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nivyyezaedm

[GerritJ9]

Bear in mind when making ML skins that camo colours for NEI Interceptors are NOT US Olive drab and Dark Green (and the Dark Earth in the default skins was most definitely NOT used!)- the two shades of green were specially developed by the ML pre-war. The greens used by the USAF in the Vietnam era are an almost perfect match for the ML greens. Lower surfaces of all ML fighters (Hawk 75A-7s and Brewsters as well as Interceptors) were aluminium dope, the Glenn Martin 139/166 bombers received light grey lower surfaces; again, the USAF Vietnam era light grey is an almost perfect match.

[herbarnold99]

Thanks for the info GerritJ9! What are the best references you've found to nail down those colors on the CW-21? (I've been fascinated by this same question with NEI Buffaloes,too... Jim Maas seems to be the best authority...)

Cheers,
Herb

[GerritJ9]

During his research of ML history, Dutch air historian P.C. Boer interviewed many ML veterans, both aircrew and ground staff. In the course of those interviews he showed them unmarked paint chips; the USAF Vietnam colours were identified as an almost perfect match. Makes one wonder how many $$$$ the USAF spent in arriving at the same results as the ML some 20 years previously!

[CzechTexan]

During his research of ML history, Dutch air historian P.C. Boer interviewed many ML veterans, both aircrew and ground staff. In the course of those interviews he showed them unmarked paint chips; the USAF Vietnam colours were identified as an almost perfect match. Makes one wonder how many $$$$ the USAF spent in arriving at the same results as the ML some 20 years previously!

LOL Good stuff Gerrit

[GerritJ9]

Another thing to bear in mind with ML (and MLD) skins in general is that from Feb. 23rd 1942 the national marking was changed from the black-bordered orange triangle to the national flag, to be effective on March 1st 1942. Markings to be applied to fuselage sides and lower wing surfaces only- exceptions to this rule seem to have been the Singapore-based Brewsters and Glenn Martins, which apparently received orange triangles on the upper wing surfaces at the special request of the RAF, under whose operational control these aircraft had been placed. The triangles were overpainted again when the surviving aircraft reverted to ML control.
This change, of course, also applied to the surviving Interceptors post- Feb. 23rd 1942.