P-40 repaint #5 ?

JohnLumley · Post by **JohnLumley** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:24 am

This website claims that a new "S" version will release in spring 2006.

The photo shows the "Flying Tigers" series 1 but the text says otherwise.

This would make #5 in the series?

Hey TKO... Any news on this?

http://www.onsitediecast.com/military21.htm

Scroll down about 1/3 of the page to see.

Post by **p51** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:47 pm

Interesting... I haven't heard anything about this

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:25 pm

Apparently, they have

JohnLumley · Post by **JohnLumley** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:19 pm

If 21st kicks out another AVG (All Volunteer Group) P-40... perhaps it will be Gregory Boyington's War hawk. It seems a logical next step since they already have the licensing to do "Lucy Belle"

Just a thought.

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:19 pm

That's a big surprise.

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:07 pm

I know there has been a lot of pressure on 21st to bring back an AVG P-40 for the 1:18 scale. I think there is a fairly good chance that we will see another "Flying Tiger" sometime this year. If they do another it will certainly be a different paint scheme than older R.T. Smith version.

Jericoeagle1 · Post by **Jericoeagle1** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:03 pm

JohnLumley wrote:If 21st kicks out another AVG (All Volunteer Group) P-40... perhaps it will be Gregory Boyington's War hawk. It seems a logical next step since they already have the licensing to do "Lucy Belle"

Just a thought.

I hope not, Boyington's contributions to the Flying Tigers were questionable. He was even dishonorably discharged for drunkeness I believe. Plus I think he has been done enough on the Corsair. Lets have some of the other Tigers like "Tex Hill"

tracer · Post by **tracer** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:38 am

I was always under the impression that the Tigers didn't have their "own" planes. I also heard this about many Pacific theater sqauds. They flew was was flyable that day. Is there any truth to this? I also heard that "Lucy Belle" was just a photo op plane, He never flew it.

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:55 am

I agree 100%! They should do a "Tex Hill" ship next!

luftpanzer · Post by **luftpanzer** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:26 am

Hey Moth it takes .2 seconds for the prop of a Bf 109 sitting idle to cut you in half.

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:06 pm

You sure?
Seems kind of fast
I think it would be half a second,
Im sure you could find it out using math (unless you did that), but I am lazy

The idle is around 800-900 RPM, Maximum is 3500RPM

aktiger · Post by **aktiger** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:25 pm

Tey should do a version of Jack Chennault's (son of General Chennault) Aleutian Tiger P-40. Might be a later version, though. The nose art is pretty cool.
Check the link. http://www.alaska.net/~gidg/Aleutian%20 ... story.html

I hope they retool the wheels, also.

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:05 pm

What's wrong with the wheels?

Rogue · Post by **Rogue** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:25 am

If it is 21, Charlie Bond flew it after Boyington got the boot and Bonds 5 was destroyed in an attack.

Any AVG would be cool or they could do all 100.

Jericoeagle1 wrote:
JohnLumley wrote:If 21st kicks out another AVG (All Volunteer Group) P-40... perhaps it will be Gregory Boyington's War hawk. It seems a logical next step since they already have the licensing to do "Lucy Belle"

Just a thought.
I hope not, Boyington's contributions to the Flying Tigers were questionable. He was even dishonorably discharged for drunkeness I believe. Plus I think he has been done enough on the Corsair. Lets have some of the other Tigers like "Tex Hill"

aktiger · Post by **aktiger** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:03 pm

The wheel struts don't lock down and the lower strut wheel swivel doesn't lock in place in either a retracted (flat position) or extended (forward facing position). When retracted, the wheels don't sit completely flat in the wheel housing. The covers for the strut housing don't sit flush either and look klunky. Other wise I still like the plane and hope for more repaints.

aktiger · Post by **aktiger** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:50 pm

By the way, found this on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultimate-soldier-P- ... dZViewItem

A great buy when I saw this, only a couple of hours left.

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:09 pm

aktiger wrote:The wheel struts don't lock down and the lower strut wheel swivel doesn't lock in place in either a retracted (flat position) or extended (forward facing position). When retracted, the wheels don't sit completely flat in the wheel housing. The covers for the strut housing don't sit flush either and look klunky. Other wise I still like the plane and hope for more repaints.

I actually think the P-40 landing gear is one of the best done of the lot. You don't need the gear to lock down since the wieght of the plane is more than enough to keep the gear in place. The P-40 looks really good on the gear and with the Corsair is among the most correct looking. I'm sure it took a quit a bit of engineering to make it work....

-Ski

DocTodd · Post by **DocTodd** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:14 pm

I must second that Ski. I was impressed they went to the level of detail on the P-40 and the Corsair gear.
Todd