Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

To discuss future builds, build planning for the future, time travel, etc. Our meeting next week was well attended.
User avatar
speedgraflex
Moderator
Posts: 9942
Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:08 pm
Location: Santa Monica, California

Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by speedgraflex »

Image
Image
ImageImage
Image
Image
Image
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
User avatar
Medicman71
Elite Member
Posts: 10047
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:32 am
Location: Houston, Tx

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by Medicman71 »

I did a 1/48 P-40 in the same markings.

Image
Mike

Sponsored by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Saab, BAE, and Dassault
User avatar
speedgraflex
Moderator
Posts: 9942
Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:08 pm
Location: Santa Monica, California

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by speedgraflex »

Mike! That turned out so well! I am sure there’s a build log here. I would like to look at your choices for color. There is a buddy’s online article I am studying, mainly because he used tan with a mist coat of gray for the “sky” color underneath. Check this out:

http://www.p40warhawk.com/Models/Builds ... /P-40C.htm
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
User avatar
Stikpusher
Moderator
Posts: 19620
Joined: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:37 pm
Location: Ceti Alpha 5

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by Stikpusher »

Dana Bell did a real good article years ago on P-40 camouflage colors. The P-40B &C camo colors were pretty exact matches to the RAF specs. But from the E onwards, while the desert schemes were identical to RAF colors, the temperate scheme was not. Side you’re doing a B/C type, RAF Dark Earth and Dark Green over Sky is what it should be.
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."

FLSM
User avatar
speedgraflex
Moderator
Posts: 9942
Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:08 pm
Location: Santa Monica, California

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by speedgraflex »

Thanks, Carlos! I was tempted to follow Floyd down the slippery slope he chose, when he went for a “tan belly.”
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
User avatar
Stikpusher
Moderator
Posts: 19620
Joined: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:37 pm
Location: Ceti Alpha 5

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by Stikpusher »

Long story short, those aircraft were originally built for the RAF, then diverted to China and the AVG. So colors were done to RAF specs at the Curtiss factory in Buffalo
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."

FLSM
User avatar
speedgraflex
Moderator
Posts: 9942
Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:08 pm
Location: Santa Monica, California

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by speedgraflex »

Image

OD Reference

Image

Colors pulled from the photo - green, brown and grey

Thanks bud! I think this may be a case of Floyd studying color photos similar to the blue winged P-51s. What registers on film taken in natural light is often something else when it’s finally printed.
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
User avatar
Stikpusher
Moderator
Posts: 19620
Joined: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:37 pm
Location: Ceti Alpha 5

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by Stikpusher »

I suppose so. And I’ll be that Sky can look a bit tannish depending upon lighting, dust, and with the type of film used.
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."

FLSM
User avatar
speedgraflex
Moderator
Posts: 9942
Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:08 pm
Location: Santa Monica, California

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by speedgraflex »

Agreed! I feel that was what Floyd was going for—painted dust, or a dusty weathered appearance, which a tan provides from the get-go.
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
User avatar
Duke Maddog
Elite Member
Posts: 7464
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 11:22 am
Location: Rowland Heights, CA

Re: Trumpeter 1:72 Curtiss P-40B

Post by Duke Maddog »

This will be amazing Bruce! I'm looking forward to seeing this one started.
The Duke
Virtuoso of Miniatures

"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"

We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Post Reply

Return to “Future Builds”