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afilter said:

Sure, but for the val and Dauntless I cannot imagine much creativiy in paint schemes. The Stuka maybe a few.

Oh, I don't think they will have any trouble coming up with three paint schemes for just about any WWII aircraft. I have three color schemes for Vals in 1/144 scale already.

21st Century had no trouble with at least three different paint schemes for the dauntless, I have two of them.

The ones in the foreground are Atlantic color schemes, or so I'm told. I know they released one version with the red dots in the wing and fusalage insignia, with the red and white horizontal bars on the rudder too.

Speaking of different paint schemes, and by coincidence seeing the P-40s in the above pic, there is going to be a plane that they are going to have trouble deciding which three paint schemes to use! The Flying Tigers with the Chinese National insignia has got to be a lock for one almost certainly. Then a British desert version I would imagine to be damn near as good a second lock. That would leave the last version a tough pick. You'd think some version in US markings would have to be taken, but North African desert paint scheme or Pacific? (If it were up to me, I'd go with the "Aleutian Tiger" markings of the Pacific ). Then there are also Russian, Australian, French and South African versions to be considered as well. So many nationalities, so many paint schemes...so few miniature versions!

Young, Rodger W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the Ohio Buckeyes) born Tiffin, Ohio, 28 April 1918 died 31 July 1943, on the island of New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while singlehandedly attackingdestroying an enemy machine-gun pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this pillbox Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled toward the pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox, attackeddestroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was wounded a third timekilled.
His boldgallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.

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The Sundance Kid said:

Then there is my fav.

http://www.skysthelimitaviation.com/HA0111-DAUNTLESS(LEXINGTON).jpg

Hate to tell you this, but that's a *pre-war* paint scheme. :)

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csadn said:

The Sundance Kid said:

Then there is my fav.

http://www.skysthelimitaviation.com/HA0111-DAUNTLESS(LEXINGTON).jpg

Hate to tell you this, but that's a *pre-war* paint scheme. :)

Those paint schemes are my Dad's favorite ones too! Especially the Devastators like that. They had different colored tails for the different carriers. Yellow, red, blue and I think even green for one of the carriers. Pretty cool.

I could see Nexus releasing paint schemes like that. They may be pre-war, but they sure are sharp looking! The original Avalon Hill released Wildcats for their Mustangs! game in that color scheme on big, I think they were 1 inch full color counters. You only saw the top side, but even on cardboard they looked cool!

Young, Rodger W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the Ohio Buckeyes) born Tiffin, Ohio, 28 April 1918 died 31 July 1943, on the island of New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while singlehandedly attackingdestroying an enemy machine-gun pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this pillbox Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled toward the pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox, attackeddestroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was wounded a third timekilled.
His boldgallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.

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csadn said:

The Sundance Kid said:

Then there is my fav.

http://www.skysthelimitaviation.com/HA0111-DAUNTLESS(LEXINGTON).jpg

Hate to tell you this, but that's a *pre-war* paint scheme. :)

(Box Of Happiness has left Ft. Worth.... :) )

Technically no. Most of The Silver and red or yellow wing dauntless on the lexington were not re-painted til Febuary of 1942. We were at war with them. The several dauntless' we gave to France were blue, light grey, and silver with yellow wings they had used. Though many of these were repinted to more camo style one dauntless was actually painted dark purple and navy blue.

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afilter said:

Thanks for the intel. That is totally not keeping with what has been done for WWI. I do like more planes per boxed set though. :)

I found this regarding the next miniature set over on BGG:

"The Wings of War WWII Miniatures Deluxe Set is scheduled for a July release, and the second series of airplane packs will be released in October, and will present the Hawker Hurricane, Dewoitine D.520, Junkers Ju.87 "Stuka" and Aichi D3A1 Val, each in 3 different painting schemes."

Young, Rodger W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the Ohio Buckeyes) born Tiffin, Ohio, 28 April 1918 died 31 July 1943, on the island of New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while singlehandedly attackingdestroying an enemy machine-gun pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this pillbox Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled toward the pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox, attackeddestroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was wounded a third timekilled.
His boldgallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.

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kaufschtick said:

afilter said:

Thanks for the intel. That is totally not keeping with what has been done for WWI. I do like more planes per boxed set though. :)

I found this regarding the next miniature set over on BGG:

"The Wings of War WWII Miniatures Deluxe Set is scheduled for a July release, and the second series of airplane packs will be released in October, and will present the Hawker Hurricane, Dewoitine D.520, Junkers Ju.87 "Stuka" and Aichi D3A1 Val, each in 3 different painting schemes."

I am afraid to ask that is October of next year correct?

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The Sundance Kid said:

I am afraid to ask that is October of next year correct?

If you love me, you'll lie to me. Every good man does.

LOL!

No, that was in reference to October of this year. That means that there is an outside chance we will see them by the end of the year.

Young, Rodger W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the Ohio Buckeyes) born Tiffin, Ohio, 28 April 1918 died 31 July 1943, on the island of New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while singlehandedly attackingdestroying an enemy machine-gun pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this pillbox Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled toward the pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox, attackeddestroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was wounded a third timekilled.
His boldgallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.