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