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February 20, 2008
Sorry for the lengthy delay
since my last update. Health problems and some surgeries have
kept me from working on it, I am finally able to work on it
a little. The update isn't as long as I was hoping, I have more
great stuff to put up which hopefully will take too long!
I have four stories from veterans
that flew the P-40 in training and went on to other types in
combat. They sent in their memories from training and a couple
also sent in photos of the planes they transitioned to and flew
in combat. The pilots are:
Rene
Burtner
John
McAlister
Bill
Lyons
Warner
Jennings
I have installed a new
forum which will get rid of those annoying ads and has
some better features. Hopefully you find it easy to use and
helpful. It does require registration to be able to post or
see photos, although you can read the posts without registering
or signing in. I have kept the registration as painless as possible
and it only takes a minute to do. No information will be sold,
given away, or used for anything other than running the forum
I have reviewed the new P-40
In Action by Rich Dann. The original was old and lacking
in some respects, this new one was definitely worth the wait
Dave O'Malley sent in some banners
of James
"Stocky" Edwards and some information on their
museum Vintage Wings of Canada
Tom Silsbee sent in a photo
of a truly unique model, it's of a P-40L
that his dad flew during the war and his dad also built the
model during the war. It's also one that AMTech used for the
markings for their model
Anatoli Tarasov did a great
job on his P-40C
in Russian markings and a nicely warn winter camouflage
Bill Armstrong sent in some
photos of a truly
unique replica that sure brought a smile to my face
and wouldn't be that hard to reproduce yourself
Floyd Werner Jr. sent in two
decal reviews of offerings by PYN-up Decals
Curtiss
Cuties part 1: a P-40E and a P-40F
Curtiss
Cuties part 2: a P-40E and a P-40N
Lyle Brown sent in some really
nice artwork of a P-40E and the markings of an Aleutian
Tiger
Caroline sent in some photos
of her nice 1/48
P-40E, she doesn't want her full name used and asked
just to go by Hermetia
I have two new wallpapers,
one is of Bill Armstrong's replica (I just couldn't resist,
it's just too cool!) and one of the photo sent in by Chris Maude
of a P-40 that his father bought after the war, it has to be
the most unusual P-40 photo I have ever seen and would make
a great diorama
I have added a few interesting
pictures to the Memorabilia
page, a couple different kinds of items including some old models,
amazing how far the hobby has come
I have added some new links,
I will be separating the links by categories in the future
For anyone that has submitted
items that haven't been posted yet, I will get to them, they're
all sitting here waiting to go up
February 7, 2007
I have a real treasure with
this update. Robert W. Fairbairn, Capt. USAF Reserve, Retired
sent me some photos and stories of his time in Panama, it is
titled Memories
Of A P-40 Pilot
January 17, 2007
There are two more sections
of factory drawings up covering the wing
and external items. Thanks to Mick Grinter for sending
these in. More to come
Giovanni Galvan brings us a
nice 1/48
AMT P-40L in the markings of Skipper
Ron 'Big Doc" Smith has
a nice 1/48
P-40F on a simple and elegant base
Scott Van Aken did a really
good job on the diminutive Minicraft/Hasegawa
1/72 P-40E and has a detailed write up on it
Phillip Gore brings us his model
of George
Welch's Pearl Harbor P-40B in 1/32 scale with a nice
history on George Welsh
Mark Joyce has been busy and
brings us four different versions of the P-40:
1/48
Hasegawa P-40E
1/48
AMtech P-40K
1/48
AMtech P-40L
1/48
Eduard P-40N
June 17, 2006
I have been toying with a new
look for quite some time and as you can see I have finally finalized
it and finished updating the entire site. I would like to thank
Vernon Rabbetts for his help in the design! Everything that
was on the old site is on the new site, two main moves were
moving the Profiles to the Art page and the Replicas to the
P-40's Today section. Hopefully you will find navigation a little
easier. I have lots more content that I will try and get up
soon.
May 01, 2006
I will be having surgery May
2 and will be laid up for at least two or three weeks and most
likely won't be able to get to my computer at all. If anyone
emails, I will eventually get to it
Chris Clarke sent in some great
historical photos of his dad Fred
Clarke and the RCAF 400 and 414 Squadrons
Louis Chang brings us two nice
models, the Hasegawa
1/48 P-40N and the Mauve
1/48 P-40N
Mick Grinter brings us some
great and very helpful photos of the P-40
Engine Area under restoration
Chris Maude send him some photos
of the P-40E
that his dad George Maude bought after the war and photos
of it restored today. An incredible photo showing a very unique
way of getting it home
Some very exciting news from
Trumpeter that will excite modelers, especially large scale
ones. Trumpeter is releasing three new 1/32 P-40s, a E, M, and
a N. As soon as more information is available, I will post it
here
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