A skin for Milton Shupe's 's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70A-1 was converted at the U.S. Army depot in Brisbane, Australia. The camouflage scheme is authentic, but the unit assignment is speculative. If it was sent to a combat unit that would have been the 6th NFS, the only Army night fighter unit in the Pacific at the time, with detachments on Guadalcanal and New Guinea. It wears the camouflage scheme unique to Brisbane-built P-70A-1's, with only the cowlings and the neutral gray under-surfaces sprayed in flat black, with the rest of the plane left in the original olive drab. Brisbane only converted a dozen P-70A-1's and there don't seem to be any photos of them at the operational bases. The red-bordered national insignia were only used for about two months in the summer of 1943.
NOTE!!!! This skin is meant to be used with the P-70A-2 model and to be configured as a P-70A. It should have the "chin" guns, and nose guns and no belly cannon pack. You will be reminded of this set-up when you see this plane on your Select Aircraft menu. The reminder note will begin the Description section.
Individual aircraft markings by Mick over base textures by "SteveB," which I believe was made with the help of the paint kit by "Wellis."
NOTE!!!! This skin is meant to be used with the P-70A-2 model and to be configured as a P-70A. It should have the "chin" guns, and nose guns and no belly cannon pack. You will be reminded of this set-up when you see this plane on your Select Aircraft menu. The reminder note will begin the Description section.
Individual aircraft markings by Mick over base textures by "SteveB," which I believe was made with the help of the paint kit by "Wellis."
