better duck
Well-Known Member
Hi guys,
In the original thread about my ELC Star / "Home James" / Elvgren "Knee-ding a lift" jacket art project (here's the link to it: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=118 ) I mentioned that we have picked the thread again. And so we have. I've received a fourth draft, incorparating a few ideas I had in the (long) meantime.
One of these ideas was to add a bomb talley somewhere on the jacket. A bomb talley, as we all know, indicated the number of mission the owner of the jacket had flown.
Now there lies my question: Does any of you guys know if it was more or less usual to add these missions flown symbols one by one, say, after each mission flown, paint on a additional little yellow or white bomb: sixteen done, nine more to go - or was that considered as bringing bad luck and were the painted on after the completion of the (or, for a select few - a) tour of operations?
In the original thread about my ELC Star / "Home James" / Elvgren "Knee-ding a lift" jacket art project (here's the link to it: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=118 ) I mentioned that we have picked the thread again. And so we have. I've received a fourth draft, incorparating a few ideas I had in the (long) meantime.
One of these ideas was to add a bomb talley somewhere on the jacket. A bomb talley, as we all know, indicated the number of mission the owner of the jacket had flown.
Now there lies my question: Does any of you guys know if it was more or less usual to add these missions flown symbols one by one, say, after each mission flown, paint on a additional little yellow or white bomb: sixteen done, nine more to go - or was that considered as bringing bad luck and were the painted on after the completion of the (or, for a select few - a) tour of operations?