Hi everyone and
its my first submission here at ARC. This is my 1/48
Trumpeter P-40B that I built straight out-of-the-box. The model
depicts the aircraft of Lt. Joe Moore, CO of the 20th Pursuit Squadron
based at Clark Air Field on December 1941. I used Gunze
Sangyo's Mr. Color Lacquer paints and gave the aircraft a slightly
weathered and faded look by lightening the colors and using a fine
brush with Silver to simulate paint chipping. I did not
use the kit supplied decals so I went to my spare box for the US
roundels and numbers.
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images below to see larger images
"No.
41" was Moore's aircraft when he took-off just in time when
Japanese bombs were falling on Clark's runway on December 8, 1941. It
was said that this aircraft was later christened "P-40
Something" as it was patched up and repaired using spare and
cannibalized parts from B and even the later E models.
Regards,
Tony
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