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CURTISS
P-40B Tomahawk
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Academy
P-40B/C. This kit is virtually identical to the olf Frog kit, so it shares
some of the olders kit's problems
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Still one
of the best looking fighters. Why brown for a color? Check out
"OD
and Me".
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While
not up to European standard, P-40's held their own in every theater until
better fighters could be produced. |
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CURTISS
P-40C Tomahawk
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No
P-40 collection would be complete without the AVG. This one IS a
Frog kit. |
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The
colors are always debatable. My guess would probably be Curtiss versions
of British colors, since the planes came from the British. |
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CURTISS
P-40E Warhawk
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The
P-40E entered service before the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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This
is the venerable Revell kit, but it always looked right to me, like a P-40
should lok. |
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Most
of the P-40's in the Phillippines after the Japanese attack were "E"
models. |
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CURTISS
P-40N Warhawk
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The
most numerous version of the P-40 was the "N" model. This is the
Hasegawa kit. |
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Even
with a longer fuselage and simplified canopy, it still looked like a P-40. |
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The
P-40N appeared 8 years after the the original Hawk 75 but still had the
same 237 square foot wing. Empty weight had gone from 3760 lbs to 6000 lb
and horsepower from 700hp to 1360hp. |
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CURTISS
XP-40Q Warhawk
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Looking
more like a Mustang than a Warhawk, the XP-40Q was the last P-40 model. |
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Even
with a Merlin engine, bubble canopy and revised nose, the last Warhawk's
performance was still below that of the other World War II American fighters. |
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Postwar,
the prototype was a racing plane for a while. This
is the Merlin kit of the XP-40Q. Frankly, it would have been just as easy
to convert a decent "N" kit, and the results would have been
better.
Fortunately,
I paint canopies blue. Otherwise, this one would have been unusable.
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