Masking film for the American Curtiss P-40E fighter. Two masks for the divided canopy glazing and two masks for the national insignia.
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The short-nose Curtiss with the Allison engine was, at the start of 1942, what the Americans and their allies actually had at hand. It was no high-altitude machine and no great climber, but it took hits, accelerated in a dive and its six machine guns were enough. It flew over Java, over northern Australia, in Alaska and in North Africa, and its reputation differed from theater to theater depending on whether the pilot fought in the horizontal or in a descent.
You can tell the early Pacific form by the olive drab upper surfaces with a gray underside and by the star in a circle without side bars, which were added only in the middle of 1943. Australian and Dutch aircraft were given further markings on top of that, with some units adding a white band on the tail. The two insignia masks in this set match the more modest markings of precisely that period.
The cockpit of this type has frames of unequal width and a hinged side window, so the mask saves the most work right there. Once the film is in place it is recommended to spray the interior color first and only then the camouflage, so that the frame matches reality from both sides.
A large scale reveals details that smaller sizes never get to: the carburetor intake screen, the exhaust stacks and the frame of the windscreen. The mask helps to keep the sharp edges of the frame from disappearing under the paint.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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