New P-40 Pics...

[matrixone]

New piccies from today.

The P-40 from Zirkus Rosarius makes a stop at a special JG 54 base home of the 'Imortals', a group of skilled Japanese volunteer flyers that fly missions with the Germans to study the best tactics to combat the U.S. bombers.









Matrixone

[Allan]

Matrix
I'm say it again, just superb modelling, and the photos are utterly, utterly convincing!
Allan in Canberra

[matrixone]

Thank you Allan!

I wanted to have the P-40 and Zero in the same picture...it seemed 'right' to me. B)


Matrixine

[Rafael]

"Right" doesn't start to describe it, Matrixone. It looks very plausible and convincing. An exchange of axis technology and vehicles is a very interesting story you tell in those photos.

Great work.
Rafa

[matrixone]

Thanks Rafa!

I thought it fitting that these two aircraft types should meet up with each other in the ETO just as they have in the PTO.

Matrixone

[rafi]

Hi Matrixone,

Great build, paint looks great!

Regards,

Rafi

[B777LR]

Great photos!

But speaking of Luftwaffe P-40s, didnt Luftwaffe buy a dousin P-36s in the 1930s, as operational fighters? All retired by 1939 though...  

[matrixone]

Thanks Rafi and B777LR!

B777LR,
I am not sure about the Germans buying any of the P-36s, as far as I know all the P-36s they used were captured from the French and used as trainers for the Luftwaffe fighter schools.

Matrixone

[B777LR]

Thanks Rafi and B777LR!

B777LR,
I am not sure about the Germans buying any of the P-36s, as far as I know all the P-36s they used were captured from the French and used as trainers for the Luftwaffe fighter schools.

Matrixone

You might be right, but on a website on captured planes of WWII, there where supposedly pictures of luftwaffe P-36s in 1936-37. I havent been able to visit the site since a few years ago, coz it was closed down  

[matrixone]

Its possible the Germans purchased some of them to use in tests against the then 'new' fighter the Bf 109, but I can't recall reading about that in any of my books, since most of my books deal with the late war period I might be wrong on this matter. I do know the Germans had one or two AT-6 Harvards they used in the war.

Matrixone

[Radish]

     

[elmayerle]

*wicked chuckle* Would that Zero have a Japanese engine or have been fitted with a suitable BMW engine?

[matrixone]

The Zero would have had a Japanese engine of course, but 'tuned' by German engine experts!

Matrixone

[ysi_maniac]

   

[Brian da Basher]

Matrixone there's something sooo "right" about seeing that captured P-40 in the same shot as the "Luft-Zero" it's frightening! Your work is always astounding and you have a great "What-If" sense! Take a bow!

Brian da Basher