This is my interpretation of a 23rd Fighter Group P-51C.  The "C" and "B" model P-51's were identical.  The "C" designated aircraft that were built in Dallas, Texas.  The 23rd FG was formed out of the Flying Tigers organization and many of the Flying Tigers pilots were inducted into the USAAF.  The painting that the hangar screen was taken from is "Tiger Sharks of China" by Jim Laurier.  The painting represents the aircraft of Col. David "Tex" Hill-- an American Volunteer Group pilot who later became the group commander in the USAAF.

This P-51 is a amalgram of several existing works with my own.  The original skin was an amazingly beautiful "plain" olive drab P-51B, created by Airbuddha.  He called it a P-51A (or A-36), though.  It's still available at "The Hangar."  His P-51 looks like it just rolled off the production line (really)-- I wanted one that looked faded and beat up.

The shark teeth are based on the teeth from Beerman's rendition of Tex Hill's "Bull Frog I."  I modified this extensively.

The cockpit is Migge's.

My intent was to try to get a P-51C that looks like the one in the painting.  I hope you like it.

Installation:

Uzip the whole she-bang into the folder that has eaw.exe in it-- or use your skin management program(aka Stab or Skins N More or Theme Manager or Find a Skin), which you probably understand alot better than it do.

dancho