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Massimo Tessitori
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« on: April 11, 2014, 02:11:03 PM »

Hi all,
I've started to upload the drawings of Tapani about P-40s in Soviet service.









The page with the works published till now is at http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/p-40.html
Please, let us know comments and suggestions.
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2014, 12:35:01 AM »

Massimo,it?s great to see a page dedicated to a Lend-Lease plane in the Research section,great work as always. And a nice surprise to see a picture of a soviet P-40N,these are very very scarse.

This is another photo of "White 65":



My congratulations to Tapani for the excellent profiles,greetings.

Martin
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2014, 02:14:42 PM »

Hi Martin,
thank you for your kind words and for the image.
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2014, 10:22:17 AM »

Hi,
two more ones.


http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/p-40.html

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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2014, 05:42:49 PM »

Very nice! I especially like the short-tail P-40K.

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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2014, 07:39:31 PM »

Hi Jason,
yes, it's nice. My favourite one is that with the eagle emblem.
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2014, 08:06:37 AM »

Some recent updates...


http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/tapani/p-40e/51e.htm


http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/tapani/p-40k-m-n/34twoseater.htm


http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/tapani/p-40k-m-n/Siberianconnectionk1.htm


http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/lendlease/p-40/tapani/p-40k-m-n/23of78iap.htm

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« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2014, 03:11:48 PM »

Wonderfull I do like the P-40 rusian decorations!
 In the first post,  could the 23's tail be silver?

my P-40 project is the Khlobistov's P-40B:



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« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2014, 06:29:46 PM »

Hi Xan! I have an old Academy kit I've been meaning to finish as Khlobistov's P-40, for a long time. Before the taran, of course!

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« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2014, 06:31:59 PM »

Okay, now I want to do the two-grey scheme EF!

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« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2014, 09:41:37 PM »

Hi Xan,
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In the first post,  could the 23's tail be silver?



I don't think. The photo under a cloudy sky shows an uniform color. The photo with horizontal light gives the idea of silver, but the shadow of the wing on the rudder is as dark as expected from a non metallic surface.

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Okay, now I want to do the two-grey scheme EF!
It is one of my preferred profiles. I haven't understood if it was unique, or more than one were converted this way.

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« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2014, 10:02:28 PM »

Hi,
perhaps this is silver. It looks metallic even if the sun is relatively high.

http://www.photoarchive.spb.ru/showObject.do?object=2523517125&language=1

http://www.photoarchive.spb.ru/showObject.do?object=2523934533&language=1

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« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2014, 08:56:45 AM »

I have an old Academy kit I've been meaning to finish as Khlobistov's P-40, for a long time. Before the taran, of course!
Hi Jason, I have the same kit and I expect to do it after the taran  Wink

I don't think. The photo under a cloudy sky shows an uniform color. The photo with horizontal light gives the idea of silver, but the shadow of the wing on the rudder is as dark as expected from a non metallic surface.
Hi Massimo, I agree with you. I wrote that before I saw the pics in your website...

perhaps this is silver. It looks metallic even if the sun is relatively high.
The pics can let think that it is, but all the context around says it isn't.
First there are very few P-40 silver in general (I remenber only brazilians p-40 and a plane with orange nose)
second it's not in VVS tradition at all let planes all in silver in that period)
I would say white...

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« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2014, 03:34:44 PM »

the P-40 K red 26 is interesting, discusssed here
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=954.msg5434#msg5434

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I?ve seen 2 pictures of Red 26,one of them is this close up:


and this is the other....didn't even know I had it on this machine... Given the contrast on this and it's getting some sun  I'd be inclined to think it was a very thin coat of white, letting teh under colour 'bleed' through.


maybe better seen here, note very hard shadow of pilot, that's direct sunlight, and worn paint above rear windows.  It also seems the wing is still in OD, and the paint is worn thin on the nose.



what is interesting is one of these Massimo linked,
the image is not cropped and a lot better quality


note the wheels are on some kind of pad, and that it looks like a ghost of a '26' behind the cockpit



Note on this how the wing does appear the same tone, I think the other photos it may now be in shadow from low sun,  so perhaps this is a winter paint scheme done in aluminium paint after all?
Is that silver overspray at the base of the vertical prop blade?

fascinating when new better photos come up.
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« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2014, 06:44:55 PM »

Hi, I wonder if the rudder is so due to the angulation, or it was already white before the winter finish.
There is another possibility for white to give the idea of silver: if it is sprayed horizontally, could be that less white reaches the upper surfaces, creating the dark shade that suggests a silver finish. If so, the dark shades should be visible in a photo from above.
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