The Ardennes 1940

[zenrat]

Film made you concentrate and pay attention to the settings.  Digital has made for a lot of lazy photographers who shoot first (and wildly) and change settings later.
I include myself in this.

[NARSES2]

3 of the 4 main camouflage colours are on 

[Wardukw]

Sweet  cant wait to see the pics mate 

[NARSES2]

Paint job complete, needs a gloss coat though as Hataka is very matt and then I can start getting the transfers on.

[NARSES2]

Transfers are on, the kit's behaved well, although I was a little concerned they might not be opaque enough given the scheme, but they seem to be ok. Working on the canopy framing at the moment which is a bit of a pig. The framing is very poor, if not invisible, on both vacform canopies so I'm relying on my "thin strips of pre-painted masking tape" method. This isn't made any easier by the typical French 3 colour upper colours though, at least they didn't have any standard patterns for this, I think it was up to the paint shop. This was done deliberately as they thought it would confuse any attacking pilot attempting to strafe a line up of aircraft on the ground. Why didn't they just disperse them ?

[Wardukw]

People who are not as smart as they think they are Chris mate..same as ( if this did in fact happen) Pearl harbor when all the P40s were lined up..just to clarify i know Pearl harbor happened  and i think the line up of fighters did too but 100% certain..could be a movie make believe moment.

[Old Wombat]

The P-40's were lined up on the hard-standing because that was normal practice in peace time (still is) & they weren't expecting the Japanese attack.

[zenrat]

I thought that the aircraft were grouped together in the middle of the airfields because they were worried about sabotage and wanted them all together where they could easilly be guarded.

[zenrat]

....just to clarify i know Pearl harbor happened  ...

I've not heard of Pearl Deniers, but I bet they exist somewhere out there on the fringes...

[NARSES2]

I thought that the aircraft were grouped together in the middle of the airfields because they were worried about sabotage and wanted them all together where they could easilly be guarded.

That's what I've always been told and read as well

[Old Wombat]

I thought that the aircraft were grouped together in the middle of the airfields because they were worried about sabotage and wanted them all together where they could easilly be guarded.

Of the eleven Japanese planes shot down, four were claimed by two young Army Air Corps lieutenants, George Welch and Ken Taylor of the 15th Pursuit Group. They were ten miles south when the attack began. Both pilots headed back to their base at Wheeler Field, the center for fighter operations in Hawaii, where sixty-two new Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks were parked wing tip to wing tip. They were arranged this way to make easier to guard them against sabotage, but this made them easy targets for Japanese airplanes. As they arrived at the airport, dive bombers appeared out of nowhere and swooped down and ripped through the airplanes and surrounding buildings.

http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/pearl.htm

They were parked along the flight-line hard-standing but closer together than would normally be the case.

[NARSES2]

One for Tophe, just to prove I am getting there 

[Tophe]

  A true marvel!

[Wardukw]

As Fred and Chris said ..thats what i thought to..its what was said in the movie Tora.Tora.Tora.
So Guy was on the money and Chris and ..fact we all were...we are good aint we ? 
Chris that thing is looking so good right now..when your done its only going to look better 
I do like the weird and wonderful no matter if it a plane or vehicle 
I was looking for pics of the Bell 204 Huey which is the civilian verison and man i found some odd ball idea's they tryed..like one with wings...jet engines mount above those wings and  4 rotor blades.
A standard looking one with 3 blades but not sure if its real tho..pic looked a little strange.

[Tophe]

I know this Arsenal-Delanne model is almost finished, just lacking its spinner and propeller, but maybe it is still time to increase its whif ratio, with contra-rotating props, no?