Quote from: DogfighterZen on March 24, 2026, 02:43:35 PMThank you!   
I've just realized that this build was something i wanted to do since i first built the real world P-40B of the Flying Tigers... and also looking back to when i started this, it was going to look a bit different with no shark mouth, the earlier green/brown/sky camo and the later white roundels with the cross on the fuselage sides instead of just the cross... maybe i should just build one like that, assigned to a different squadron... 

Well, that's obvious!       

  

Very nice. Looks sharp in those markings, and you have done an excellent job on the overall finish.

Thank you, Captain!
I am rather pleased with how it came out especially because i almost gave up on finishing it. I don't like to give up on a build and i'm glad i got back to it because it didn't take much to finish. Most of the build was ready for paint back when i stalled it and put it back in the box in 2023.

Nice paint mate.   

Is that true, or based on truth, about the wings snapping?
Theres a P40 with Mustang wings (a Kittystang) in a museum close to me and this could add an element of truth to a back story when I get round to building one in the one true scale.

Quote from: zenrat on March 26, 2026, 01:25:15 AMIs that true, or based on truth, about the wings snapping?

If not actual truth, it's certainly based on fact. Stress fractures in wings have led to such failures on numerous aircraft over the years - especially combat aircraft, which undergo significant random stresses which not even aerobatic aircraft suffer.

Glad you like it, Fred! Thank you! 

TBH, i think i went a bit too far with that detail in the backstory because i've never read anything about P-40's wings snapping off in flight and all i've read or heard so far is that it was a very sturdy airframe that could make it back to base with severe damage.

The factual bit of my backstory ends on the crash of the Hawk 75 in April of 1942 that destroyed the machine and killed the pilot. That gave me the idea for the P-40's crash that caused it's retirement in my backstory.
The Portuguese Hawk 75 were being operated with severe lack of replacement parts and proper maintenance procedures and regularity. Although the exact cause of the crash was not made public, the general perception is that it was not human error and that most likely, it was either a mechanical or structural failure that led to that crash and subsequent grounding of All Hawk 75 fighters for several months, leaving the AMP with nothing to defend the country's airspace until the first 10 Spitfire Mk.Ia were delivered from November of 42 to January of 43, when there was a big probability of an invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by the Axis Forces.
But, like Guy said, it's something that occurred more than once with several aircraft of that period so, maybe it would make it more plausible if you say it happened because the pilot got careless with the aerobatics when showing off and exceeded the max dive speed or that it happened when pulling out of a steep dive and that it was an old airframe with lots of flight hours... I'm sure Kit has a rule that will make it plausible anyway... 
On a last resort, you could say it was involved in a ground or even mid-air collision, a landing gear failure, or heavy corrosion from prolonged storage in bad conditions...

Thanks mate.  I could always go with the truth.   I've got the details bookmarked somewhere...

Quote from: DogfighterZen on March 26, 2026, 12:58:59 PMI'm sure Kit has a rule that will make it plausible anyway... 

I've got some I haven't even used yet. 

Elegant, looks very good - and plausible, too! 

Thank you, Thomas! 
The AMP only had 11 Hawk 75 airframes total and even before their grounding in April of 42, i imagine that they were taking whatever they could get their hands on.
The RAF began replacing the older Tomahawks with Kittyhawks on the front lines in early 1942 so that's probably the time when a few P-40s could have been chosen to compensate the AMP for the damaged Hawk airframes.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2026, 04:35:41 AM

Quote from: DogfighterZen on March 26, 2026, 12:58:59 PMI'm sure Kit has a rule that will make it plausible anyway... 

I've got some I haven't even used yet. 

Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2026, 04:30:35 AMThanks mate.  I could always go with the truth.  I've got the details bookmarked somewhere...

I had no clue there  was such a thing as a Kittystang but Google AI says it was done to keep the plane assembled in one piece because they didn't have the original wings anymore.