To my fellow forum members,
Thank you so much in your support in my Lockheed P-61 Black Widow build. Just the amount of views brought me excitement and great satisfaction in a thread about a WWII aircraft. With improvising, out of the box thinking, discipline, and patience, I was able to avoid most of the obstacles that this scale model presented, mind you, it's a kit that hasn't changed since the late 1960's from what I researched. I chose this particular product as it was something that I fondly built during my childhood, growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii.
This next project will be a aircraft that I've never built. It is widely known by the planes service in China. What! China? General Chiang Kai Shek fought against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria or known during the war as Manchuko by the Japanese invasion forces which occupied that part of the country. One idea that the General Chiang Kai Shek had was to employ quite literally, air pilot mercenaries to aid the Chinese against the encroachment of the Japanese invasion forces.
The answer was AVG or the American Volunteer Group. It sounds better than mercenary. Led by General Claire Chenault, this group became widely known as the infamous "Flying Tigers". Almost everyone will recognize the P-40 with it's gaping mouth full of teeth and the eyes of anger.
Although lacking somewhat in Maneuverability and rate of climb, the P-40's top speed of 352 m.p.h. coupled with its rugged construction, armour plating and fast diving speed, enabled it to hold it's own against most of the fighter planes in existence at that time. Out of the three groups of the "Flying Tigers", the most widely known group of pilots were 3rd. squadron "Hell's Angels".
Within 6 and a 1/2 months they compiled a record of shooting down 299 Japanese aircraft while loosing only 50 planes in which the pilots of the "Flying Tigers" lost 8 pilots killed and with 4 missing. This time frame was during December 20, 1941.
Like my previous thread in regards to the Black Widow, I will present a step by step build of my P-40 "Warhawk" (Flying Tigers) so that forum members can view the build and even critique and or give me pointers in what should be done. The only difference with this P-40 build will be that there will be no aftermarket items purchased to assemble this plane. This build will exclusively contain only what was in the factory sealed box. I hope I can accomplish this project. Why? I've never airbrushed a camouflage design onto a plane. This will all be new to me, so I hope you enjoy this build as much as I will. Please don't forget to leave comments in regards to the assembling of the P-40. I want to thank you in advance in your support with my project.
Toshi
Thank you so much in your support in my Lockheed P-61 Black Widow build. Just the amount of views brought me excitement and great satisfaction in a thread about a WWII aircraft. With improvising, out of the box thinking, discipline, and patience, I was able to avoid most of the obstacles that this scale model presented, mind you, it's a kit that hasn't changed since the late 1960's from what I researched. I chose this particular product as it was something that I fondly built during my childhood, growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii.
This next project will be a aircraft that I've never built. It is widely known by the planes service in China. What! China? General Chiang Kai Shek fought against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria or known during the war as Manchuko by the Japanese invasion forces which occupied that part of the country. One idea that the General Chiang Kai Shek had was to employ quite literally, air pilot mercenaries to aid the Chinese against the encroachment of the Japanese invasion forces.
The answer was AVG or the American Volunteer Group. It sounds better than mercenary. Led by General Claire Chenault, this group became widely known as the infamous "Flying Tigers". Almost everyone will recognize the P-40 with it's gaping mouth full of teeth and the eyes of anger.
Although lacking somewhat in Maneuverability and rate of climb, the P-40's top speed of 352 m.p.h. coupled with its rugged construction, armour plating and fast diving speed, enabled it to hold it's own against most of the fighter planes in existence at that time. Out of the three groups of the "Flying Tigers", the most widely known group of pilots were 3rd. squadron "Hell's Angels".
Within 6 and a 1/2 months they compiled a record of shooting down 299 Japanese aircraft while loosing only 50 planes in which the pilots of the "Flying Tigers" lost 8 pilots killed and with 4 missing. This time frame was during December 20, 1941.
Like my previous thread in regards to the Black Widow, I will present a step by step build of my P-40 "Warhawk" (Flying Tigers) so that forum members can view the build and even critique and or give me pointers in what should be done. The only difference with this P-40 build will be that there will be no aftermarket items purchased to assemble this plane. This build will exclusively contain only what was in the factory sealed box. I hope I can accomplish this project. Why? I've never airbrushed a camouflage design onto a plane. This will all be new to me, so I hope you enjoy this build as much as I will. Please don't forget to leave comments in regards to the assembling of the P-40. I want to thank you in advance in your support with my project.
Toshi
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