P-51 Lanky Stang

sequoiaranger · June 20, 2008, 01:45:03 PM

Take a clue from the fashion industry. Really, that Brewster Buffalo should NOT wear stripes! They make it look tubby!

sotoolslinger · June 20, 2008, 04:21:55 PM

UH UH That Buff is just big boned

Mossie · June 21, 2008, 05:47:57 AM

It was just a passing fad, after the F3F's riddiculed it!

More Barclay patterns here:
http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/artist/b/barclay/barclay%201.html

Tophe · June 21, 2008, 06:31:28 AM

I wondered: "By the way, 'lanky stang' may have a meaning, it's so weird a name". I asked the web free translator http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt and got this. So slang (for 'broken down crazy'?) that I almost don't understand in my mother language… Funny!

Ian the Kiwi Herder · June 21, 2008, 08:22:31 AM

Oh yes, Dazzle Ships, great camouflage scheme, lousy album:-

Ian

Brian da Basher · June 21, 2008, 10:10:20 AM

Quote from: Tophe on June 21, 2008, 06:31:28 AM
I wondered: "By the way, 'lanky stang' may have a meaning, it's so weird a name". I asked the web free translator http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt and got this. So slang (for 'broken down crazy'?) that I almost don't understand in my mother language... Funny!

According to Webster's Dictionary, lanky means ungainly tall and thin. The Free International Translator says dégingandé is the French equivalent.

Brian da Basher

Tophe · June 21, 2008, 11:21:20 AM

Quote from: Brian da Basher on June 21, 2008, 10:10:20 AM
lanky means ungainly tall and thin.

Why such adjectives for Eddie's beautiful and small model?

Eddie M. · June 21, 2008, 11:44:36 AM

Quote from: Tophe on June 21, 2008, 11:21:20 AM
Quote from: Brian da Basher on June 21, 2008, 10:10:20 AM
lanky means ungainly tall and thin.
Why such adjectives for Eddie's beautiful and small model?

I chose the name because it had started out as a thin, long model. After I added the junk in the trunk (big rear end), I should call it, the Stout 'Stang.

Eddie

BlackOps · June 21, 2008, 08:53:58 PM

Eddie, maybe it could be both Stout + Lanky = Stanky

OK, maybe Lanky + Stout = Lout Alright maybe not

Looking great, can't wait to see more!

Eddie M. · June 27, 2008, 07:47:42 PM

The Super Stang gets some of it's colors.

Eddie

sotoolslinger · June 27, 2008, 08:05:54 PM

OH.....WOW

John Howling Mouse · June 27, 2008, 08:06:25 PM

I think there's about 150-some people whose jaws just dropped off their faces, my own included. Magnificent!

Brian da Basher · June 28, 2008, 03:57:40 AM

Mine included, Eddie! The paint and marking scheme is stunning!!!

Brian da Basher

Ed S · June 28, 2008, 08:02:18 AM

WOW Looks good Eddie.

Ed

sequoiaranger · June 28, 2008, 08:34:45 AM

Add my kudos to the lengthening list. Beautiful. I have always liked the Summer-of-1943 American insignia with the red surround. Interesting, almost-German-splinter camo.

When the exhausts get dirty, they can use chimey-sweep equipment to clean them!