XP-72 Super T-bolt - Page 3

**Willja67** · #21 06-05-2009, 04:09 PM

I'm not committing to anything yet there is still a long ways to go before I can even consider painting this thing but Zot seems to be tapped into my subconceious desires lately. I like the tiger stripes and the AVG camo. I wonder if a shark mouth would work on this. The P-40 is the only plane that I've seen that really pulled it off successfully IMHO.

**zot** · #22 06-05-2009, 04:27 PM

Wow...were you thinking of hawaiian shirts too? If you want to see that one let me know.

**Ron0909** · #23 06-05-2009, 04:38 PM

My 1 litre+ of ink will be here Monday...please keep this one open for me
as I need to print off the 3 view!! I'll need to draw it in by hand, scan and then Photoshop.

Ron

**zot** · #24 06-05-2009, 05:31 PM

Here's a view with a shark mouth added.

**Willja67** · #25 06-05-2009, 10:21 PM

I think my opinion that the sharkmouth only works well on P-40's still stands (no offense Zot). Maybe though an eyeball could be painted on each wingtip and we would have a hammerhead tigershark?

**zot** · #26 06-06-2009, 05:57 AM

No offence taken. On this plane I don't care for it that much either. I just thought I would add it to see how it looked.

**lee4752** · #27 06-06-2009, 09:02 AM

I don't think the shark mouth works on the intake that far back. If it needs to be present, a longer shark mouth under the nose would be my preference.

**cdavenport** · #28 06-06-2009, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dansls1

When surfing around yesterday I saw a pink P40 in sharkmouth / flying tigers motif...

The pink color represents the color that resulted from the degradation of Desert Sand color by the sun's UV rays. The actual color was much less "pink" than what we see today but was common among aircraft camouflaged in the desert sand finish. If you visit the National Museum of the USAF, the B-24 "Strawberry Bitch" is there finished in a pink color.

**birder** · #29 06-06-2009, 11:03 AM

Will I think this would be a cool subject to devote so much energy as a design to, its unique and not modeled much (at all?). I don't think a Hawaiian shirt paint scheme..maybe I didn't get that quite right..:D

**Willja67** · #30 06-06-2009, 12:37 PM

I'm feeling a bit like a hack doing this model. I maybe I have just learned how to get past irrelevant minutiae but I have made a fair amount of progress already on the model and I know that there is a whole lot of reference that would allow me to make the overall dimensions far more accurate than they are now.

My Super Corsair model is accurate to 1/4" (full scale) in a lot of places and I have dug up so much reference on it that in comparison I feel like I'm turning into a hack just busting this out as quick as I am. I am not compromise fit or anything like that but being true to the subject is being relegated to secondary status. Or at least it feels that way to me.