Martin Marauder Gold for FS9 has been released

[Hurricane91]

My reference picture didn't show it on that plane.

Is this better? This is "Heckling Hare" (serial #401488).

 

[Milton Shupe]

Here's another one, "Major Monsoon," 19th BS, New Guinea 1942.

Thank you Mick; so many to do; so little time.

 

[Mick]

Is this better? This is "Heckling Hare" (serial #401488).

Yep, it's better! Thanks!

I might even be able to fiddle with it enough to make it look straight-on and flat, so I could just copy it and change the color. It's blue on the color artwork I found yesterday. That image has much lower resolution though and would look fuzzy on the model in the sim.

If I can't manipulate the image in the photo to make it look straight-on, I can still use it as a model to copy manually. I think I can do that, it's just basic shapes and some letters.

I'm not sure I can make the nose art on that plane look clear enough, but I'm going to try. I have a couple ideas.

 

[Mick]

Thank you Mick; so many to do; so little time.

You're more than welcome Milton!

Thank you for the model I'm having so much fun with.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Anyone considering Mild & Bitter?

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/8184

 

[HorusJ]

Hey Mick,great work as always! I too have a soft spot for "meat-balled star".Looking forward to a OD version.Maybe something similar to Kermit Week's Marauder?

Joel

 

[Blackbird686]

"Mild and Bitter" would be a real project for a painter... but if they pulled it off with all that detail, there would be ALOT of that version flying around in the virtual skies of flight sim.

BB686

 

[Mick]

Anyone considering Mild & Bitter?

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/8184

Oh my, that's such a classic Marauder! But it's far beyond my talents to paint it. I hope someone will!

 

[Mick]

Hey Mick,great work as always! I too have a soft spot for "meat-balled star".Looking forward to a OD version.Maybe something similar to Kermit Week's Marauder?
Joel

I have a couple early OD planes on my list, next after the last Silver Fleet bird that I've started working on. There was a B-26 unit in Alaska that flew them in OD with "meatball" stars and I plan to paint one of their planes. I think the Weeks plane was painted to look like one of those Alaskan planes. They don't seem to have had any unit markings, just the stars and serial numbers they came out of the factory with. After that will come one of the Marauders that showed up at Midway (and might as well have stayed home.) It will look like the Alaskan one but with the red centers removed from the stars.

After that... Well, as you may have noticed, so far I've painted planes that were either almost brand new, or in natural metal (or both.) That reflects my total lack of skill at weathering. The paint kit provides for an overlay of dust and grime, but no real weathering. When I look at pictures of Marauders in the European War I mostly see matte camo schemes with lots of heavy weathering. Lots of it! I'll have to leave those skins for more talented painters.

But even the most heavily weathered planes started out brand new and spotless, and there were some field applied camo schemes, like the few Marauders that were painted overall black for intruder work, that looked pretty spiffy to begin with. So I might do some European War skins. We'll see...

 

[HorusJ]

I have a couple early OD planes on my list, next after the last Silver Fleet bird that I've started working on. There was a B-26 unit in Alaska that flew them in OD with "meatball" stars and I plan to paint one of their planes. I think the Weeks plane was painted to look like one of those Alaskan planes. They don't seem to have had any unit markings, just the stars and serial numbers they came out of the factory with. After that will come one of the Marauders that showed up at Midway (and might as well have stayed home.) It will look like the Alaskan one but with the red centers removed from the stars.

Excellent Mick,excellent!

 

[Seahawk72s]

Cockpit Drawing

Is there a cockpit drawing that clearly shows what gauges are where..?
I've not found anything on the net...
Working with Gaucho's superb graphic for a 2D panel...
Moving yoke gives it a 3D effect...

 

[Milton Shupe]

Is there a cockpit drawing that clearly shows what gauges are where..?
I've not found anything on the net...
Working with Gaucho's superb graphic for a 2D panel...
Moving yoke gives it a 3D effect...

Seems to me you can see the gauges well enough on his graphic to determine what goes where, but I have attached one layout, but I think its a different version. Most of the proper doc I have are for early versions.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Here are some additional shots.

 

[Seahawk72s]

Here are some additional shots.

Thanks, it covers what I needed..

 

[Mick]

One more from the Silver Fleet

OK, here's my last 19th Bomb Squadron skin. It's got the "Silver Fleet" emblem on the tail.

I toyed with the idea of backdating the insignia to the red bordered style mandated for a couple months in the summer of 1943. One of the profiles I found of the plane was painted with a lighter silver surround, as if the red border had been manually removed. But I figured that made no sense; it would be so much easier to just overpaint the red with blue, which is what they were supposed to do. Then I saw another profile without any indication of repainting. Alas, I couldn't find a photo of the plane that showed the rear fuselage so I couldn't judge for myself. I finally decided to stick with the pictures, even though they aren't photographs. The insignia was painted that way so often that I believe there must have been units in the Pacific, maybe whole commands, that just never added the red borders despite the specification.

Anyway, here it is. Next I'm going to see what I can do for some olive drab Marauders.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Well done Mick; that looks great!

 

[Milton Shupe]

B-26B and C Tech specs and history attached; good reading.

 

[Hurricane91]

OK, here's my last 19th Bomb Squadron skin. It's got the "Silver Fleet" emblem on the tail.

Mick,
Many thanks for these unpainted aluminum Martins. They are beauties.
Looking forward your early O.D. paints as well.

 

[Hurricane91]

B-26B and C Tech specs and history attached; good reading.

Thanks Milton.

 

[Mick]

OK, one more for today. This one belonged to the 444th Bomb Squadron. It must have just arrived in North Africa when it was photographed in the spring of 1943. Surely it wouldn't have looked that spiffy for very long in the desert.