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#3068025 - 08/06/10 06:41 AM AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon and Iron MIke  
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The Col. is still finalizing the model but here are a few shots of the plane. They are Hawk 81A-2 (P-8127) No.47 3rd Pursuit Squadron American Volunteer Group, Pilot R.T. Smith.
And Hawk 81A-2 (P-8123) No.94 3rd Squadron AVG Pilot Tommy Haywood (USMC-ret).







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#3068026 - 08/06/10 06:46 AM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: iron mike]  
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Bravo!


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#3068490 - 08/06/10 09:30 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Col.J.D.Landers]  
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#3068955 - 08/07/10 04:53 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Kempston]  
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Hi Guys,

Lovely planes. At first I thought the underside colour might be wrong as the first batch were from an RAF order with Brown/Green uppers and according to some of my sources either Sky/Duck Egg or light Blue unders, but I see Osprey 41 definitely shows what seems to be the standard US Army Medium Grey, so I guess you are right.

Cheers

Peter


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#3069491 - 08/08/10 05:56 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: PeterMBooth]  
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School Holidays here have severely cut the time I can spend working on 3dz's. I'm down to less an hour a day, because I'm so cream crackered, I don't have the mental energy to get going at the P40, or anything else, for the moment.

Still, only another 4 weeks of this madness to go. eek


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#3069539 - 08/08/10 07:31 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Col. Gibbon]  
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Great job, both of you. beercheers

#3071344 - 08/11/10 11:04 AM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Wudpecker]  
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P40 looking good blokes...what's the ETA for this one
with cockpit, feathered prop, shadow and distance files?

nb:only 6 exhaust outlets on a P40 ...

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#3071643 - 08/11/10 08:45 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Flying Tiger]  
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Hi Ade.

Sera is revamping the cockpit.

Distance models are done.

New prop won't take long to do, once I have finalised the model with all the correct action codes.

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#3071784 - 08/12/10 12:37 AM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Col. Gibbon]  
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I'm just waiting for Col. Gibbons to send me the final model so I can tweak the skins. I have enough photos and drawings to do the 3rd AVG squadron as a multi-skin unit. And could possibly do complete 1st and 2nd squadrons too. We would just need a 1.28 China-Burma-India campaign for them.


ETA, 4th quarter 2010, I hope.

#3072722 - 08/13/10 11:01 AM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: iron mike]  
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Beautiful - I´m looking forward to a DAW Tomahawk beercheers
As for the camo - I´ve read articles about Curtiss using US colours for its export machines to achive a camo combination useful for the RAF and the European theatre. Because the RAF came into use of P-40s intended for the French the US were able to divert a batch of Curtiss to the Chinese/Burma theatre.
Some skinners even claim overpainted RAF roundels and fin flags visible on the Wing tops and the fuselage sides.
I´m not quite familiar in Allied camo - does anybody have additional info?


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#3072796 - 08/13/10 02:09 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Fran_Zee]  
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#3072798 - 08/13/10 02:16 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Col. Gibbon]  
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Thanks! Col.Gibbon!!!


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#3072929 - 08/13/10 05:13 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Ecv56SERA]  
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This is one that flew in in the Desert War. It is a Tomahawk Mk Ib RAF 112 Squadron, Sidi Haneish, October/November 1941. Middle Stone, Dark Earth, and Azur Blue camo










Look back through this thread to see the developement of the P40 model. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2897096/P40_Update.html#Post2897096 page 6

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#3073201 - 08/13/10 10:10 PM Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke [Re: Fran_Zee]  
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Hi Fran,

As I have said previously my sources suggest ex RAF P-40 Tigers would have 1939/40 Dark Green/Earth Brown uppers. Undersurfaces are a matter of sources - RAF would have been Sky/Duck Egg Green/Blue, some suggest a light blue and others USAF Medium Gray. If these were initially ex French order then I guess the first batch would have been painted in standard French Dark Grey/lightGreen/Brown with light grey unders (Gris Bleu Fonce/Vert/Chocolat/Gris Bleu Clair) and repainted in the UK not USA, and later ones painted in RAF colours on the production line. RAF kept a few in Europe for Army Cooperation and I have pics in Dark Green/Ocean Grey/Sky standard 1941 camo, rest shipped either to Russia (Russian Dark topside Green/Light underside Blue?) or Middle East (Desert Air Force Mid Stone/Dark Earth/Azure Blue). It is said that the Sharks mouth on the Tigers was a copy of RAF 112 Squadron Desert AF planes.

Speaking of undersurface colours you never did answer my PM about Lichtblau/Hellblau and I am still interested - was there any particular regulation about which Luftwaffe aircraft had which colour in which theatre?

Cheers

Peter


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