P-40s Galore, Honest, Believe Me!

[Brian da Basher]

Ohhh man is that sweet!

Brian da Basher

[Daryl J.]

Now you've done it!     The Hobbycraft Hawk 75 M/N/O (or whatever triple letter designation it was) needs to get lined up with a    Tamiya Fw-190A3 to see if the parts blend well enough.   Thank goodness for Luckymodel dot com which sells Tamiya stuff cheap even with shipping!  


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Daryl J.

[Daryl J.]

Regarding colors, I have my own ficticious German scheme which anyone is free to use:

RLM 82 port wing with a RLM 83 aileron
RLM 83 starboard wing with a RLM 82 aileron
RLM "84" (Gunze 'Sky') sides and undersides
RLM 83/82/83/82 topside on fuselage with 3 tiger stripes proceeding down the flanks just before the tail.
Red Trim on the tail.

That's kind of my mark but like mentioned above, anyone is free to duplicate.
I used it on my Ta-183 too.


So, a Hawkengruber would get the same scheme.
Daryl J.

PS:  Vichy markings would serve that airframe well, much like the Morko Morane looks so good in yellow-nosed Finnish garb!



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[Glenn Gilbertson]

The latest Fine Scale Modeller forum has a discussion on the best P-40 kits.
http://cs.finescale.com/forums/769785/ShowPost.aspx
 

[Daryl J.]

Plan revision:

The BMW 801 power egg is waay too wide for a Hawk75 M/N/O        
In order to fare it in, one would have to fill all the way back to the rear quarter windows, redo the entire wing root, amongst other things.

Shucks!



Daryl J.

[PanzerWulff]

How about a Sabre engined P-40 with 4x20mm cannon in the wings or even more insane would be the engine off the FG-1 Super Corsair with a spinner and a 5 or 6 blade prop???

[NARSES2]

Similar to this you mean ?

[PanzerWulff]

Similar to this you mean ?

HELL YEA!!!! Thats what I'm talkin about      

[Radish]

Nice ones......

thinking.....now I've "retired" again, the P-40-build is back in swift progress.
Got some Hobby Boss 1/72nd kits to play with but the 1/48th Arii kit is "up" first as a V-tail  

[Radish]

As a quicky after finishing building a Chinese Harrier GR3-ish and a Sesquiplane SE5A (RAF silver), I started a Hobby Boss 1/72nd P-40N. Lovely mouldings, there's a fit problem with the top/bottom of the fuselage sections, but nothing that sanding can't cure.
To be RN and I'll complete the construction today.

Then....on with the P-40E V-tail.  

[B777LR]

still havent seen pictures yet...  

[Daryl J.]

This idea may or may not come to fruition so I'll start here.

Premise:   US Navy quickly needs high altitude patrol aircraft to ward off Japanese recon flights.  The urgency allows no time for development of a new airframe, thus an existing machine gets chosen.   P-38's, P-47's, P-51's, Corsairs, and Hellcats are all priority fighters and thus not available.    The P-40 gets chosen instead to retrofit existing airframes into a Navalized high-altitude Recon Ridder.   A few are completed and brought to service.


The kit:  Hasegawa Kittyhawk Mk.IV (P-40N)

The mods:   Monogram turbocharger from P-38 under the nose a la XP-37.   Intercooler placed behind engine.  Wings extended significantly, but not quite to the extent of a Ta-152.  High-altitude cockpit pressurisation.  Navalized hooks, landing gear.   Significantly lightened to aid high-altitude performance.

Overall Gloss Sea blue with white leading edges.  Minimal markings.


If it can't be completed in time for the GB terminus, I'll just keep running a parallel thread on the Workbench page.



Daryl J.

PS:  The family took priority this long weekend over the P-40 Sport.        

[Daryl J.]

This is why I think a high-altitude P-40 Recon Wrecker could have been developed....



Daryl J.

[Radish]

My V-tail could soon be resurrected...thinking something like Italian?
Or USAAF 8th AF??  

[Brian da Basher]

That would be very cool, Radish! See if you can get some pics taken of it and enter it! Having you participate would be great!

Besides, I can never see enough of those famous Campion models!

Brian da Basher