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Flight Replicas P-40N Repaints

The history and a bit of Real verse Sim or Visa Versa This aircraft had a personal interest , i knew ex-RNZAF LAC Stanley Jackson and his wife ex-RNZAF nurse Mary many years ago and he serviced this aircraft in the Pacific , the details are close to what Stan recalled but i can confirm ... i wish i had accepted the log books he had .
As the result of correspondence between two armourers of No. 4 Servicing Unit at Ondonga, on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, and a pen-friend who was a tuberculosis patient at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand named Gloria Lyons, it was decided to adopt her as a unit mascot. At that time 4 (SU) aircraft carried code letters, so one P-40N-1, NZ3148 coded 'G', was duly christened 'Gloria Lyons', and this name was painted on the lower engine cowls.
Information Courtsey of http://rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/gl.html
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Both have now long past , but family are assured not forgotten . :medals::salute:

File should be up on Flightsim.com in 24 hrs .



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Fantastic work Ian, a must download for me. Your recreation of the original picture with a picture of your work is especially nice. Putting the people in the picture made me look twice for sure. Thanks!!
 
Thanks Tom , Its amazing how you can teach history ... turn a historical photo and with a brilliant model and with good photo-shop program bring everything back to life .

Edit: I painted this for the standard P-40N1 and that what the cfg. file is suited more due to the actual photo . :salute:
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rgatkinson said:
Just thought I'd post a quick update. Progress has been slow due to work commitments and mastering alignment techniques across parts of the model. Anyway, finally happy with the nose and have almost finished the fuselage stripe. Then just the underside stripe, fuselage codes, tail serials and alpha mask and I think it may be ready. BTW for those of you who are wondering; the scheme is that of Major Ben Preston who was the C.O. of the 13th FG circa 1944.



Regards

Taff.
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Keep going taff - this is going to be great to fly.
 
Ian Warren said:
Thanks Tom , Its amazing how you can teach history ... turn a historical photo and with a brilliant model and with good photo-shop program bring everything back to life .

Edit: I painted this for the standard P-40N1 and that what the cfg. file is suited more due to the actual photo . :salute:
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Excellent - thanks for history lesson - really apprechiated. Good looking repaint :jump:
 
Barnes said:
Excellent - thanks for history lesson - really apprechiated. Good looking repaint :jump:
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Thanks Matey , Looking forward to your works Taff and Barnesy :applause:


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Little Jeep

Here is the progress on Little Jeep of the 75th FS, 23rd FG Kanchow, China autumn 1944







 
Looks Great Tom :cool: I recall a book when growing up, and it was the summer of 69 .. my older bro's Chrissy prezz a book called "The Conquest of the Air", I still recall the artwork on one page about the flying tigers, those screens brought back a flood of memories , brilliant model to paint , its just so easy .
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I never thought that the Pink repaint would be as popular as the chequered tail version but it is! Same number of downloads.
 
Gloria Lyons

Here is Ian's Gloria Lyons available at Flightsim.com this morning. Thanks Ian for the very nice rendition of Gloria Lyons.

 
WIP - update

Another update, I'm still slugging away at it :icon_lol:





I cannot believe how long it has taken me to size and align the stripes around the fuselage/wing-roots and the "P1" codes on the sides. Hopefully it has been worth it. A bit of tidying to be done and then the alpha maps and it should be ready. If not this weekend then early next week.

Regards,

Taff

PS my advice to those repainters who haven't yet discovered the 'features' of the paintkit for themselves - when choosing a scheme, steer clear of anything that overlaps the side of the nose and the top of the cowling and/or side of the fuselage and wing-root covers. You'll be doing yourself a big favour! :icon_lol:
 
Brilliant work, Taff, and thank you for keeping at it! I look forward to seeing the final results in the sim.

Speaking of the P-40 again, I ran across this nice video over the weekend, shot from the gun sight location on the Warhawk Air Museum's P-40E. The Warhawk Air Museum, a fantastic collection (with some deep history in the 'warbird restoration movement' - John Paul Sr. being one of the original "Chino Kids"), is based at the Nampa, Idaho airport, and they also operate a P-40N painted in the distinctive "Parrothead" training squadron markings. In the video, there is quite a bit of demonstration as to how light and repsonsive the ailerons are on the P-40 - just cruising around at 220-225 mph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeeEPJzCAfE
 
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Bomber_12th said:
Brilliant work, Taff, and thank you for keeping at it! I look forward to seeing the final results in the sim.
......................repsonsive the ailerons are on the P-40 - just cruising around at 220-225 mph.

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I really like that , more for the geographic study of the river bed come canyon, very much different to the New Zealand landscape, we here have looking a little more like the USA's North West or Canada ... or John "RAMBO" country ... now i wonder how he would do in a P-40 :icon_lol: ... course Mars my cat had to say something about the pooch ;)


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P-40N Little Jeep Taking Off

The Flight Replica P-40N Little Jeep, number 165 is ready for the skies. It is in the Add-Ons Library. Enjoy!!

This repaint represents White 165 of 1Lt Forrest Parham, 75th FS / 23rd FG, Kanchow, China, Autumn 1944.









 
stovall said:
The Flight Replica P-40N Little Jeep, number 165 is ready for the skies. It is in the Add-Ons Library. Enjoy!!

This repaint represents White 165 of 1Lt Forrest Parham, 75th FS / 23rd FG, Kanchow, China, Autumn 1944.
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Looking at some of those screens ... I believed I was watching "EMPIRES OF THE SUN" , same feel airfield , sweet paint Tom :cool:

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Barnes said:
Working on a fictional scheme based on a Mustang - got a few bits to finish.
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Looking great Barnes :applause:

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Congratulations and thanks to my fellow repainters for the recent additions to the P-40N fleet :applause:. Have downloaded them and added them to my hanger.

My repaint has just been updated with improved alpha and specular channels and is also a lot shinier now due to a modified aircraft.cfg file entry :icon_lol:



Regards,

Taff
 
Hi Taff - really looking forward to your repaint - its going to be great.

PS - having not really ever mastered alpha myself I sympathise with the process your tackling
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Its looking great already
 
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