Two For the New P-40s

[cactuskooler]

Still a few touch ups to do.


For the P-40F "Trixe" from the 318th FS 325th FG.






P-40N "Hep Cat" from 75 Sqn RAAF.

[TwinBoom]

purty

[SmokinLoon]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!     If you have yet to do so, I suggest getting them submitted soon.  Skuzzy and Co. will be looking at them soon!   

[FTJR]

Cactus, very nice, my only question is the blue tip on the rudder, I dont have any reference to that on any of the 75 sqdn ships. Other than that 

[cactuskooler]

Cactus, very nice, my only question is the blue tip on the rudder, I dont have any reference to that on any of the 75 sqdn ships. Other than that 

Lyric turned me on to this Flickr page. It has many really fantastic RAAF P-40 photos, mostly from 75 Squadron.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/

Here's a few of the Hep Cat photos. Make sure to right click on the image and view them at their original massive resolution.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900094297/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5893185841/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900297665/in/photostream

[lyric1]

Very nice


 There is a white border on that part of the cowling?


Edit: I missed the touch ups bit you mentioned.

[cactuskooler]

Very nice


 There is a white border on that part of the cowling?


Edit: I missed the touch ups bit you mentioned.



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Yeah but I'm not sure what color it is.  It's different than the blue on the back of the spinner.

Right now I have it skinned as seen in these photos. In these the nose paint is the same color as the back of the spinner, but doesn't taper to a point on the underside and has no white trim.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900297665/in/photostream - Top left

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900762132/in/photostream - Bottom Left

Unless you think you know what color changes were.

[FTJR]

Very cool, Lyric our research bot :0

[lyric1]

Yeah but I'm not sure what color it is.  It's different than the blue on the back of the spinner.

Right now I have it skinned as seen in these photos. In these the nose paint is the same color as the back of the spinner, but doesn't taper to a point on the underside and has no white trim.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900297665/in/photostream - Top left

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64671666@N06/5900762132/in/photostream - Bottom Left

Unless you think you know what color changes were.

I see your dilemma.

Since some of these photos were taken post war by a few weeks. I would say go with what your got.

As you can see with the two photos they clearly did some repainting as can be seen on the nose art & what looks like other colours on the cowling.

[Greebo]

Beautiful work as always Cactus.   

[oboe]

  

If it were up to me, I'd lock Cactus away for a long time and make him churn out skin and skin for ourgame.  Just terrific work.