Will,
I may not have any time to do anything further (as I'd like) so here's a preliminary entry for the contest...
I was hoping to add some flags and a yellow rose along with a clever name for the nose. Also thought that OD wings with yellow wingtips and stripes of some sort would be fun.
Sort of a post-war, Korean-era Air National Guard machine with some custom markings that some WWII ace might've put on his plane in memory of his old aircraft.
Ryan