rkk01 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I’ve always been keen on the North African and Italian campaign camo schemes... and we have plenty of arid terrain maps My question though - we have desert skins for the Spitfire and the Luftwaffe aircraft, but not for the P-47 or P-51... The Americans seemed to have used desert camo for P-40s, P-38s and US operated Spitfires. Were the P-47s and P-51s just used in Northern Europe? and therefore wouldn’t have received desert / Med schemes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art-J Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Pretty sure Lightnings operating over Africa featured standard Olive Drab / Neutral Grey camo... so did the Allison-powered P-51s and A-36s - the only Mustang versions flying there in '43. Later, when Allies got their feet on the northern side of MTO, with Thunderbolts and Merlin-powered Mustang variants appearing, they all sported OD/NG camos as well, later replaced by natural metal finish. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nealius Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 For the P-47, USAAF Jugs were either bare metal or OD with gray bellies. I saw one museum piece with a desert scheme, but I don't trust coloration of museum pieces or re-colored BW photographs. I mean, no way in hell Lou IV had bright blue camo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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