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Vallejo 78414 Model Air AFV Set German Camouflage 19431944 6 Color Set – Metro Hobbies

The P-40BC HawkTomahawk Mk.III fighter planes produced by Curtiss in the early war years and delivered both to the USAAF and their forces of the Allies lacked the performance of British fighters and most importantly of the German opponents. So the designers at Curtiss were faced with the necessity to improve the plane rather extensively and power it with the new vesion of the Allison engine, the V-1710-39 type. The emerging P-40D WarhawkKittyhawk Mk.I was to be the first type of this second generation of fighters. A total of only slightly above 40 was eventually produced, being armed with four wing machine guns. On the production line, the type was soon replaced by a futher improved and mass-produced P-40E WarhawkKittyhawk Mk.Ia which mainly differed by having six gun armament. Despite onl very few P-40Ds were produced, our kit set is

49.00 - 56.00