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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #75 on: May 26, 2015, 04:32:42 AM »
Does anyone know if you can get a kit or conversion of the twin seat P-40...preferably in 1/48:

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #76 on: May 26, 2015, 07:15:21 AM »
I'm pretty certain there's a mod kit in 1/72 (LF Models?) but I don't know about 1/48.

I just checked, LF Models does a TP-40M, a TP-40N, and a Soviet Klimov-powered P-40EA two-seater.
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #77 on: May 26, 2015, 05:40:57 PM »
OK, Greg is officially in a twin-seater-manic phase. :-\
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #78 on: May 27, 2015, 02:50:44 AM »
OK, Greg is officially in a twin-seater-manic phase. :-\

You noticed...
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #79 on: May 27, 2015, 05:05:11 PM »
OK, Greg is officially in a twin-seater-manic phase. :-\

You noticed...

Only just. ;)
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #80 on: January 23, 2016, 03:00:47 AM »
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #81 on: January 23, 2016, 05:18:36 AM »
Very intriguing!  8)
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #82 on: February 05, 2016, 03:42:03 AM »
I do love the Q, and Freightdog has the lovely 1/72 Pegasus kit for a very reasonable price.

I'm not sure if I've linked to it in here, but I have created a backstory for a British, navalised P-40 series.
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #83 on: May 18, 2016, 03:10:42 AM »
Random idea:  P-40 float plane using same floats as Spitfire shown below

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #84 on: May 13, 2018, 04:17:40 AM »
Potentially a Naval P-40 would be designated (if it had served with the USN and thus received a USN designation) the F14C-?. Now, doesn't that make you want to whiff one up even more?

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #85 on: May 20, 2018, 01:48:01 AM »
Some cool P-40Q photos:

Initial XP-40Q-1:




The more refined XP-40Q-2 after modification with a bubble canopy:



XP-40Q-2A with clipped wings:





The last of the Curtiss P-40Qs: the XP-40Q-3:



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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #86 on: May 20, 2018, 04:43:46 AM »
They're commonly misidentified/mislabeled:
1st is XP-40Q-2 (modified P-40K 42-9987)
2nd is XP-40Q-2A (modified P-40K-1 42-45722)
3rd is XP-40Q-3 (modified P-40N-25 43-24571)

Q-2 and Q-2A were initially listed as P-40Ks in Air Force records,
the Q-3 was the only one listed as XP-40Q from the start. The
XP-40Q-2/-2A/-3 designations were appended by Curtiss and the
Flight Test Engineering Branch at Wright Field

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #87 on: May 20, 2018, 06:52:52 AM »
IMO P-40Q is absolutely cool. 8) 8) 8)

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #88 on: October 27, 2018, 02:41:47 AM »
Crossind late P-40 and early P-51


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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #89 on: February 23, 2019, 11:10:55 AM »
A P-40 N of Dutch Air Force forced landed in Solo 1949 during Indonesian's war of independence.

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #90 on: February 24, 2019, 02:58:47 AM »
Cool
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #91 on: March 17, 2020, 02:20:38 AM »
Random idea:

Greek P-40 (probably an early variant such as a P-40B) in similar scheme to their P.24s or MB.151s:


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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #92 on: April 20, 2020, 04:07:51 AM »
Anyone got a heap of P-40s for a diorama?

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #93 on: April 23, 2020, 01:01:59 AM »
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #94 on: April 23, 2020, 02:19:19 AM »
There's a diorama idea:

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #95 on: June 06, 2020, 03:14:48 AM »
Interesting one I just came across:

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #96 on: June 06, 2020, 05:48:06 AM »
lt is especially hard to convince people, extremely hard if they are experts but USAF was in the game of designing suicide aircraft. The armour depicted here meant to keep the pilot alive until the crash, so there was no need to provide for a bail out attempt. Until a better idea came along. lf Northrop says he designed the P-79 for ramming, l don't know why historians insist "No, he didn't".

Of course this hypothetical enemy which calls for such extreme measures is "murky" by all means. But China comes to mind, where the Japanese were reported to have dropped "Manned Bombs" in 1938 and could have been a response of sorts. Manpower being "no problem" with regards to Chinese Army size.
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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #97 on: June 07, 2020, 02:05:40 AM »
l have come to understand that Republic refused to study a suicide version because they had designed the 47 to run down anything in the sky anyhow. And l no really say the drawing is a generic affair (say, looking like an E instead of a D) and there should be no guns either for weight saving. Similarly on hearsay, the "enemy", meaning whatever falsified information USAAC/F might have on America bomber to come was supposedly given in a paper on the employment of hunter/killer teams as it were. Two suiciders led by a regular fighter for visual search to direct the rest of the V into position and deal with any possible survivors. Be it an heavily damaged bomber or parachutes.

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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #98 on: July 22, 2020, 02:51:21 AM »
One I first did over here based upon Evan's suggestion.

I give you the Hawk 75 BdB, the Spatted Terror from Thailand:



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Re: P-40 Ideas
« Reply #99 on: July 22, 2020, 05:33:52 AM »
What can I say, but "BRAVO!!"?  I could also see that as a one-off in China where one of th Flying Tigers' P-40's messes up its main gear and the only repair pieces available are from a spatted Hawk-75/
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