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P-40
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Jarda Rankl
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- Aug 12, 2004
Good shots!
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice !
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
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Many thanks for sharing
Good stuff!
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P-40 pilot, Midway Island 1942
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ArmouredSprue
Senior Airman
That blue coating on the pre-painted production machines, is that paint, plastic or some kind of preservative?
As memo serves that's the kind of easy waschable preservative called the Lionoil prussian blue.
Edit... yep.. Here what I found at... Someone recently posted about P-40 wheel bay liner colour
" ... Lionoil was a removeable shop coat applied to protect the aluminum sheet from staining during the manufacturing process. The blue came from the addition of Prussian Blue pigment and was added just to make the protective coat more visible during production. In the age of natural metal finishes, Lionpil helped ensure a clean-looking aircraft on delivery.
After the aircraft was assembled, the Lionoil was to be washed off, then the aircraft would be primed and painted. Last week I found an AAF directive that allowed Curtiss to apply camouflage paint directly over the Lionoil without use of a primer. That might explain why some of the P-40 wrecks we've seen show excessive chipping on some parts of the fuselage...
Cheers,
Dana
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Edit... yep.. Here what I found at... Someone recently posted about P-40 wheel bay liner colour
" ... Lionoil was a removeable shop coat applied to protect the aluminum sheet from staining during the manufacturing process. The blue came from the addition of Prussian Blue pigment and was added just to make the protective coat more visible during production. In the age of natural metal finishes, Lionpil helped ensure a clean-looking aircraft on delivery.
After the aircraft was assembled, the Lionoil was to be washed off, then the aircraft would be primed and painted. Last week I found an AAF directive that allowed Curtiss to apply camouflage paint directly over the Lionoil without use of a primer. That might explain why some of the P-40 wrecks we've seen show excessive chipping on some parts of the fuselage...
Cheers,
Dana
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Also please make a focus on that the pic at the post above is inverted. I have reverted that shot.
