French Curtiss H 75 Carousel1 P 36 redo

[jcterrier2]

Hello

Here are the planes of Capitaine Accart "White 1" and sergent-chef Lemarre "White 9".

A friend of mine did the job for me. I made the "Intelligence" job but I have not enough skill and before all short eyes and thick fingers.

Basis Carousel1 P-36 Rassmussen.
Decals AML decals 48-04 "French pilots on Hawk"s 1940".

Accart's plane is a Curtiss A-3 subtype, it have two Mg pro wing added on the wing slots emplacement of the Carousel US ones.
Lemarre's one is a A-2 then it have only one MG pro wing.
An antenna was added to the dorsal spine of each plane.

Painting scheme was done from some wartimepictures and color profiles I looked for.

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart02.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre01.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre02.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart01.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre03.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart03.jpg

Thanks for looking

[Agent X20]

Hello

Here are the planes of Capitaine Accart "White 1" and sergent-chef Lemarre "White 9".

A friend of mine did the job for me. I made the "Intelligence" job but I have not enough skill and before all short eyes and thick fingers.

Basis Carousel1 P-36 Rassmussen.
Decals AML decals 48-04 "French pilots on Hawk"s 1940".

Accart's plane is a Curtiss A-3 subtype, it have two Mg pro wing added on the wing slots emplacement of the Carousel US ones.
Lemarre's one is a A-2 then it have only one MG pro wing.
An antenna was added to the dorsal spine of each plane.

Painting scheme was done from some wartimepictures and color profiles I looked for.

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart02.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre01.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre02.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart01.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Lemarre03.jpg

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/jcterrier2/PhotosFranois03Accart03.jpg

Thanks for looking

...Mr JC.. you need image (img) tags rather than url tags and your pictures will them come up.. 4th option down on Photobucket...

Nice piccies..

[jcterrier2]

Thanks Agent. And thanks for your help.

Try to do better so next time.

[Angels one-five]

Nicely done:cool . Thanks for sharing.

[lmisbtn]

Very nice!

If C1 had released that scheme they might still be with us!

[jcterrier2]

Yes you are right.
It's a pity they didn't manage a finnish and a french one. It wa splenty of good schemes for the 109 Emil and the 190 Dora to do too ...

Hope somebody buy the molds. Come on HM !

[Grizzly Adams]

Superb re-do there, looks the business. shame C1 aren't with us anymore, loved their Doras.

[Edward Papazian]

Fine job, JC.:cool

It's always good to see another repainter's work. I did something similar with a C1 P-36 several years ago but had lots of trouble with the small windowpanes on each side at the rear of the canopy. Eventually, I became fearful of breaking them, when trying to lift them off so I could paint underneath. My "solution" was to paint the small windowpanes over with interior green on the outside, then gave them a gloss coat with Future. My model also differs from yours in that it is brush painted and has "hard" edges to its camouflage. Hoping you wont mind my posting a picture, here it is:





http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu75/Epapazian/PC200003.jpg

[jcterrier2]

Please Edward you are welcome. I see a lot of your beautiful redo's and I am always admirative of what you do, I particuliarly appreciate the Emils you did from The Carousel1 too.
My friend manage to make out the small windows with a little knife pressure. But sadly he doesnt paint the interior sides with the "Chamois" color, a slight pale brown-Yellow which was the french planes interior colors so far I know. Undercarriage coverplate interiors have to be the same colour too. He paint them both with US interior green. I realize then late that I didn't mention that in the color instructions. Maybe were anyway some H-75 with this colour too.
You have made a beautiful exemplar of the "Petits poucets" squadron bravo !

[Garethster]

...Mr JC.. you need image (img) tags rather than url tags and your pictures will them come up.. 4th option down on Photobucket...

Nice piccies..

Classic JC. Beautifully done.

[lmisbtn]

Hope somebody buy the molds. Come on HM !

Amen to that!!

[MiGAlley]

Great re-do monsieur! And to mister EP too, of course. C1 of course decided to go US-centered when picking its schemes for the Hawk, but besides Rasmussen, the other schemes might have been a bit too obscure for most (shame, as they do supplement the now-blooming Yellow Wings theme very well). A French Hawk, however, might have been an altogether different proposition, with lots of pretty schemes and combat history. This story goes for most of the C1 castings - excellent models, great schemes in many cases, but so many options left undone. And then that fully-rigged Nieuport 17 that never was :(

In case of the Hawk, however, the project was somewhat doomed from the start. Yes, they could, and probably should have selected export schemes, like the French liveries we see here, instead of the ones they actually picked. But their casting wasn't designed to display the different cowlings for the various engine types flown in foreign service (Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp or Wright Cyclone). Without such mods, many attractive schemes would still have been impossible, as many export versions - such as the RAF Mohawk - used the Cyclone engine instead.

I still believe this would be a really, really good subject for HM in 1/48th, as a successor to the Buffalo line - so many excellent schemes, nice differences between the versions where a good casting can shine, and lots of combat history...

[DCRanger]

I missed this thread. That's a great repaint and I agree with the comments of others, this is the kind of scheme that may have helped to keep Carousel in business.

[jcterrier2]

Thank you all guys .
It's a matter of fact that we all regret Carousel1. Let's say they were two golden years 2008 - 2009 when we had all together Armour, Carousel1, Eagles International and HM brands on the market. It was really something going on in 1/48 scale ! Now make HM the show with constant several releases but it hides the sad reality...Not so much new molds in fact.

[KO-B]

That's a great repaint and scheme.:cool
Have to say this is one of the single seaters I'd most like to see done in 1/72nd.

KO-B

[MiGAlley]

That's a great repaint and scheme.:cool
Have to say this is one of the single seaters I'd most like to see done in 1/72nd.

KO-B

Yeah the scale one can debate about. I would be inclined to say that due to the limited UK subjects, it need not necessarily be 1/72nd, as it would supplement the Buffalo line very well in 1/48, and therefore appeal to the US crowd, who seem to like the bigger scale and would identify more with the subject. But really, it could be great in either scale. The only issue is, if Corgi had trouble shifting the far more famous P-40, and if similar types like the P-39 and F2A have not exactly been setting the shelves ablaze, will there be enough people to buy it?

Schemes are just so good, though...

http://www.scalehobbyist.com/images/products/HOB/HOB00001415/HOB00001415_0_l.jpg

http://thetoyhq.com/shop/images/HC1416_1.jpg

http://www.hyperscale.com/images/dds0032reviewme_1.jpg

http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/decals/aero/am48620a.jpg