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  1. Well if you want to know the early RAF contract Mustang cockpit color and seat you have got one of the best time capsules ever in the EAA's XP51 http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survi...es/41-038.shtml 41-038 N51NA " Original XP-51 " History 1941: RAF AG348, kept in USA for evaluation 1942: NACA 1949: NASM (stored) 1975: N51EA (EAA Foundation) restoration 1976: first flight after restoration 1982: last flight - retired to EAA Museum The seat and cockpit of the EAA's XP51 ..."AKA" ...RAF Mustang Mk1 AG348 sent to the USAAF for eval. the seat and cockpit colo
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    P-40E Backdate

    Yes I can be done...it a bash with Trumpters nose and upper spine, the parts line up almost dead on, I have one in progress on the bench along with a 1/48... see preview of part 3 for the idea.... http://www.freewebs.com/p40-tomahawk/ Note because of being on the road for my job all this year I have not been to completed a write up
  3. Ive posted a rev 2 of “Long Nose Hawks†over on rapidshare.com in both word 97-2003 and RTF This will be a lot clear then the pdf doc Long Nose Hawks parts 1 & 2 rev2 in word97-2003.doc http://rapidshare.com/files/129264874/Long...ord_97-2003.doc Size: 8011 KB Long Nose Hawks parts 1 & 2 rev2 in RTF.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/129267442/Long...ev_2_in_RTF.zip Size: 29587 KB I regards to two questions I’ve seen posted I use the name “Long Nose†and “Short Nose†really in reference to the engine used in the Curtiss H-81 vs the Curtiss H-87 The gear ca
  4. Sorry about the late reply im on the road. I will get an WordXP, 2003 verson up in a few days , im adding a small edit update
  5. Thanks .. it was a long time pulling together with a lot of suprises ... The new "squareback" seat type for the AVG/RAF Tomahawks being the same as the Mustang Mk1 was a major suprise to find
  6. Not to be the contrarian but the Monogram is very, very over rated for being accurate and not that good … The best early P40? Well best bet is bashing a Hasegawa P40 E with a Trumpeter P40 B I've done a 22 page detail and measurement article on the early P40/Tomahawk posted over at another modeling web site, because of the pictures the doc is close to 7.5 Meg so for bandwidth reasons it in a low res version in PDF. Ive got a lot of new information including the correct wing gun bay detail that no kit or drawing have even close to right. I also posted a hi res version at http://www.fre
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    AVG TommyHawk

    Just FYI on AVG 's Tommyhawks shoulder harness....Eagles Files EF#4 "Tigers over China" pic's on pages 14 & 15 and top of page 16 (two dif aircraft) clearly show a shoulder harness belt hanging over the cockpit side....if its a local mod or a parachute pack I don't know
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