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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: No.1 on January 20, 2007, 09:38:19 PM

Title: XP-46
Post by: No.1 on January 20, 2007, 09:38:19 PM

I am not sure about 100% precision but it is best I can in the moment :)

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: santynus on January 21, 2007, 01:42:19 PM

nice work my friend  :-ok
I like so much your metal effect  :-clap
If I found some good photo about this aircraft I send you...

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: No.1 on January 21, 2007, 01:47:26 PM

Thank you friend :)

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: mfg495 on January 21, 2007, 02:28:20 PM

Great job No.1.  :-ok
How long does it take you to produce an image like the one you have posted.  :-think

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: No.1 on January 21, 2007, 04:29:05 PM

This one is made in some ten day's... well not constant work. One afternoon I spent on the additional metal shine effects.

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: PV Chairman on January 23, 2007, 11:18:39 PM

Beautiful artwork - well done!

Unfortunately some historians try to convince us that the superb P-51 Mustang was developed from the XP-46, because North American Aviation was forced to buy wind-tunnel data on the XP-46 during 1940 from Curtiss. Its a hoax, if the P-51 derived anything from the XP-46 it was ONLY data about the air scoop under the belly.

PV Chairman.

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: No.1 on January 24, 2007, 08:48:09 AM

Great info PV Chairman- would you be kind to provide some more data?

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: Skyraider3D on January 25, 2007, 11:55:08 PM

Very nice subject! The metal effects are pretty good.

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: Nico Braas on January 27, 2007, 10:02:45 PM

It is indeed nonsense to say the the P-51 was developed from the XP-46!
Originally, the Mustang, or NA-73X was not even developed for the AAC, but for the RAF!
North American produced the NA-73X prototype on the request of the Britihs Purchase Commission when they were short of fighters in 1940! Even when it was already flown, the AAC was not interested in this type until it was evaluated at Wright Field showing its highly efficient airframe. And even then it was not ordered as a fighter but as a ground-attack plane!
With the original Allison V-1710 its performances detoriated very fast at higher altitude and it was not until the Mustang airframe was mated with a Rolls Royce Merlin when it showed its real potential. And..........the Merlin was fitted for the first time by the British to a UK supplied Mustang!
Fitted with a Merlin, a bubble canopy and an extra 1200 l fuel tank behind the cockpit it became the great fighter it is now claimed to be! It is ironical that the original AAC specifications for a long-range escort fighter only produced big monsters like the XP-67 and the P-75A that were totally unsuitable while the Mustang was already flying around for some time..........

Title: Re: XP-46
Post by: No.1 on January 27, 2007, 11:49:05 PM

Thank you all for your comment and great pleasure to get comliment from Skyraider. Nico- great info!!!