I needed the grey fuselage letter decals, as opposed to the yellow ones that come with the kit.
They came today (from eBay).
In my research, I am not sure that the white triangles, the ship letter on the tail, etc, were ever used with Yellow fuselage letters. They may have for a day or two or ten, but with all the decals I wanted, I need to have grey letters to represent "Hells Angels" in late 1943.
Hells Angels was a ship from 303rd Bomb Group. They were one of the first 6 or 7 bomb groups to fly missions out of England with the 8th Air Force, starting in late 1942.
It was Hell Angels the airplane, that was first to complete 25 missions in Europe, with different crews I believe. "Memphis Belle" finished her 25th mission six days later (with the same crew for all 25, I believe).
Memphis Belle got the glory and went home out of it.
Hells Angels stayed on and completed 48 missions before being retired and sent home in January 1944 to become a training ship. She was scrapped in 1946.
Memphis Belle sat proudly in Memphis from 1946 til 2005, when the US Air Force Museum took it and is currently restoring it, to be put on display in 2018 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio.
I have most of it finished, just need to place the guns and glass.
I will put a coat of future over that, do some weathering.. I have streaks and wash/filter/fading in mind for this, more than I usually do on aircraft.
I will then seal it all with a Dullcote.
Progress so far. It is still shiny, won't be when it is done.
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