#3068955 - 08/07/10 04:53 PM
Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke
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PeterMBooth
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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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#3071344 - 08/11/10 11:04 AM
Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke
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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 ... ade
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#3071643 - 08/11/10 08:45 PM
Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke
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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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#3072722 - 08/13/10 11:01 AM
Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke
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Beautiful - I´m looking forward to a DAW Tomahawk 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?
Greetings Fran http://www.sandbagger.uk.com/franzee.html______________________________________________ "War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."( Bertrand Russell )
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#3073201 - 08/13/10 10:10 PM
Re: AVG P40C's works in Progress Col. Gibbon snd Iron MIke
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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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