Curtiss P-40N skinpack consisting of three marked, two blank and two generic skins to be used on the P-40N mod aircraft.

Place these skins in: \IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\PaintSchemes\Skins\P-40N

Template and skins by me, HBPencil. I used the stock P-40M void as a base from which to build the template and as such some elements of the mech/internals 
are retained from that void as my own attempts to improve on them had negligible results.


IMPORTANT
You may use these skins freely (provided its for non-profit and/or non-commercial use) and so long as you give credit and leave the credits on the skins. 
Likewise please do not use these skins in part or in whole to create other skins without giving due credit. Please do not upload these skins to any website 
without my permission unless they are bundled with a mission/campaign in which they are used.

If you any questions regarding these skins, or the use of, please dont hesitate to message me at Axis-&-Allies or email me at hbpencil79@hotmail.com

SKIN INFORMATION

These skins are based on photos of the real aircraft (all of which were black and white). As these sources provide a limited view of the aircraft (e.g. the 
starboard side only without any view of the upper or lower surfaces) a fair bit of guess work and assumption was used in making these skins. The following is 
what information I have on the original aircraft on which these skins are based plus any relevent skinning info. Note that issues with the mapping and warping 
of the skins means that I had to make some compromises, some of which are quite major, which means that some details aren't as accurate as I'd like.
For example, the white paint on the wing leading edge of the 49th FG skins should extent all the way to the wing root however I couldn't do so because of 
the mapping issues.

43-23194, black 34, 8th FS, 49th FG, sometime between early August and September 1944.
This N-20 was one of nineteen P-40Ns returned to the USAAF by the RAAF during late July and early August 1944. In mid '44 the 7th and 8th FS of the 
49th FG were still flying P-40Ns (they converted to the P-38 in September '44) however due to losses, operational or otherwise, the 49th was running out of 
P-40s and as all current USAAF P-40N reserves at the time had already been allocated, a request was put to the RAAF for some aircraft. The RAAF agreed 
and nineteen aircraft were taken out of storage at 5AD (Air Depot) and collected by the USAAF by the 4th of August.
Interestingly the remains of the aircraft's RAAF serial A29-694 can be seen on the lower rear fuselage between, and covered by, the star'n'bar and the white tail 
theatre marking which would indicate that it was the Australians who had stripped the aircraft to the bare metal. Only the last batch of Ns produced (N-40) 
left the factory in bare metal.
The colours of the wheel covers are unknown so I made a guess as to what they were based on their shades.

43-23222, 7th FS, 49th FG, sometime between early August and September 1944.
This skin is based on a very grainy and poor photo. I'm fairly, but not totally, confident about the serial number of which the last two digits appear to be have been 
hand painted. Unfortunately I couldn't make out the small number on the nose so I have guessed.
This N-20 was also one of the nineteen returned by the RAAF, its former serial number being A29-643 and it had originally been intended for 120 Squadron NEI.

44-7071, Pinellas Army Airfield, Florida, sometime between April 1944 and July 1945.
Contrary to popular opinion (due to claims made in the book 'Curtiss P-40 in action; squadron/signal publications aircraft no.26') this aircraft was not "flown by 
Major Ben Preston C.O. of the 13th Pursuit Group". Quite apart from the fact that the term "Pursuit Group" had been dropped in 1942 there was no 
13th Pursuit/Fighter Group during WW2. This aircraft never left the United States and spent its life Pinellas Army Airfield in Florida at a fighter training school.
This N-30 was written off on the 4th of July '45 in a landing accident caused by mechanical failure and was eventually salvaged for scrap on the 29th of November '45.


Happy flying!

HBPencil