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Old 06-30-2011, 03:26 AM
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Only if you are modeling the very earliest production block. All subsequent blocks (the vast majority of Ns produced) had a very different canopy and cut away in the area behind the pilot to increase rear visibility.
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that later block P-40Ns had a different canopy.

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Simply taking our horrid, and very incorrect P 40 M, and calling it an N is not acceptable. The Ns had bomb racks on the wings, and could and did carry rockets too...
Agreed. I think that there's evidence of earlier P-40s carrying rockets, too. In any case, I think it's a common and simple enough field mod to give P-40E and F series planes Soviet, British and/or American bombs and rockets.