P-36 Hawk, Model 75, Mohawk, P-37, P-40 Warhawk, Tomahawk, and Kittyhawk, & P-42

[dy031101]

For some reason I couldn't help imagining the floatplane Hawk 75 with the blue cowling, white fuselage, yellow wings, and blue-striped rudder of contemporary ROCN colours......  

[Weaver]

Wow - brilliant work Apo!  Those should inspire a few people eh?

[philp]

Digging the Norwegian floatplane.  Wish I had the Monogram kit in the stash as I do have a Seagull.

[jcf]

The SO3C Seamew floats are another option and the Seamew is closer in weight to the Model 75 than the Seagull.

As far as twin-float variant is concerned, the floats from an F4F Wildcatfish would probably work.

Jon

[NARSES2]

XP-42 -- LF Models (7235 - resin kit) [was there also a conversion?]

The kit I have uses the AML wing sprue and the rest is resin

[Arc3371]

Good one!

[Weaver]

Apo, these are excellent - you've run much further with my off-the-cuff suggestion than I'd ever dreamt of! 

Here's a nother thought: maybe the reason for fitting a spinner to the original setup would be to incorporate a FW-190-style cooling fan to compensate for the original engine being tuned to the point or overheating.

[jcf]

Apo, these are excellent - you've run much further with my off-the-cuff suggestion than I'd ever dreamt of! 

Here's a nother thought: maybe the reason for fitting a spinner to the original setup would be to incorporate a FW-190-style cooling fan to compensate for the original engine being tuned to the point or overheating.

Fans were mounted on the XP-42 at various times in its life, I posted a NACA pic here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,22312.msg365620.html#msg365620

[jcf]

France ordered 175 Consolidated LB-30 (Model 32) bombers in 1940. These four-engined bombers had the same R-1830-S1C3-G Twin Wasps as the Hawk 75A-3s. However, the Armée de l'Air decided that bomber escorts should have a heavier armament. Orders were placed with Curtiss for the new Hawk Model 75S.

The first production Hawk 75S-1 was to be armed with four wing-mounted FN-Browning machine guns (chambered for French Hotchkiss 13.2 x 96mm rounds). The Hawk 75S-2 was to have two 7.5mm wing-mounted FN-Brownings and two underslung 20mm Hispanos.

Unfortunately, France fell before any Hawk 75S could be delivered. The handful of completed Hawk 75S were fitted with .50" Brownings and sold to the British Purchasing Commission as Mohawk Mk.Vs.

All that and an all-moving horizontal tail as well.

Jon

[jcf]

Cheers Weav ... an XP-42 based scenario below. [BTW, the image is a modified from a NACA pic shot at Langley in 1945 -- not sure how many hours it had but the XP-42 had legs!]

Jon: do you know anything about the P-40 used as a  Twin Wasp testbed by P&W?

The XP-42 was finally scrapped in July of 1947, it had its final flight in April of that year.

Twin Wasp P-40
Drawings from here:
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/Magazine/AirWar/52/Draw/index.htm







Curtiss Fighter Aircraft by Dean and Hagedorn, Schiffer 2007,  pgs. 276 - 277: four good photos and informative text.
The Dean/Hagedorn book is outstanding and well worth the $69.95 price tag, even though Schiffer did screw-up (gee what a surprise)
and the majority of the colour pics were printed as B&W.

The aircraft was purchased by P&W in September 1940, by November 10, 1942 it was reported that the R-1830 equipped aircraft was
regularly  outperforming the P-40F in mock combats and that " ... in both climb and high speed, is very much better ... ".
The aircraft had an ejector exhaust setup very similar to what was later used on the F8F.

Jon

[GTX]

Something I just bashed together:



Regards,

Greg

[ChernayaAkula]

This doesn't look bashed at all (if that makes any sense  ). Has a very natural look to it!

Is this to scale? So would I be able to stick a 1/72 La-5 nose on a P-40? An idea that's definitely worth some further study. Could look very good in Soviet WWII colours.

[redstar72]

Yes, looks very good... but the engine really isn't in scale with the rest.

Here is a "corrected" version and its prototypes  .

[Arc3371]

Good work, may I trouble you for a P-36 with the Ash-82?

[Arc3371]

What is the diameter of the NACA cowl?