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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: Story on October 13, 2023, 08:48:26 AM

Title: Curtis Wright Hawk III diorama potential
Post by: Story on October 13, 2023, 08:48:26 AM

Tripped over this propaganda poster made from a newsreel still taken in Shanghai 1937 and wondered what aircraft it was.

(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/22/27/69/22276942783f1a94f79917a8afd115ce.jpg)

Turns out it was a Curtis Wright Hawk III
(https://www.aviationgraphic.com/3514-large_default/curtiss-hawk-iii-chinese-nationalist-ag-47.jpg)

What's interesting is that the Japanese period artwork shows a blue finish, yet it's accepted the Chinese painted them green.


See also https://pacificeagles.net/defending-shanghai-1937/ (https://pacificeagles.net/defending-shanghai-1937/)

Title: Re: Curtis Wright Hawk III diorama potential
Post by: Old Wombat on October 13, 2023, 09:44:04 PM

Yes, but the photo was probably B&W & the artist had probably never seen the real thing, whereas he would have seen Japanese soldiers, dirt, grass, weeds & the sky with clouds in it. ;)

Title: Re: Curtis Wright Hawk III diorama potential
Post by: Story on October 14, 2023, 05:07:33 AM

Quote from: Old Wombat on October 13, 2023, 09:44:04 PM

Yes, but the photo was probably B&W & the artist had probably never seen the real thing, whereas he would have seen Japanese soldiers, dirt, grass, weeds & the sky with clouds in it. ;)

Or not all the Chinese planes were painted green.  ;)

Backgrounder on 2503
http://www.chinaww2.com/2014/05/24/ningbo-special/ (http://www.chinaww2.com/2014/05/24/ningbo-special/)