In the years before the war, the USAAF used the P-40 C in their squadrons , with this decoration , red center star and bars with thirteen stripes , the cone in different colour for each squad in the group , usually Red, Blue and Yellow , in the center of the fuselage should go the Squadron mascot, but in this case I do not know the exact insignia, for December 1941 and were on their way to retirement, exported or used as trainers, replaced by models E, only the detached in the Philippines reached enter combat .
And it is in the Philippines where he fought and lost, I built this model to that unit, after reading the book of Clostermann , I found that the 24th Pursuit Group unit had been present in the campaign, constituted by 3, 17 and 20 Squadrons, only the latter had P - 40B , although I have my doubts , FEAF (Far East Air Force) is still being builning, the squadrons had been flying P -35 up to a short time and were being replaced with more modern, P -40E and B, from their old aircraft to the fledgling Philippine Air Force , but the Japanese attacked before, almost all aircraft were lost on land. The theater also was getting a new unit the 35th PG formed with 21, 34 Squadrons and some more to know.
The model is painted basing on assumptions , has not survived a single photo of a plane 's squadron , the badge was the famous White Owl , being newly received aircraft is very unlikely to have received the squadron badge, or insignia complete, even so, probably I will paint the owl in the fuselage .
ModelAcademy , paint Pollys and Viejo Marino, flat brush technique , national insignia from a Lodela model, codes is painbrushed, modeler Sergio Tellez , photographed using a Polaroid PDC 5355.
