Curtiss P40K-1/5 Warhawk 'Short Fuselage'

A US-built WW2 fighter aircraft in its short tail variety known as the P-40K-1/5 also featured a wider style tail fin. The kitset comes on three grey styrene sprues with another one with clear injected parts. Decal sheet also included with markings for four schemes:

P-40K-1 (42-46040), white 13, pilot 1.Lt. Robert J. "Crash" Overcash, 64.FS, 57.FG, Africa, May 1943 (5 victories)

P-40K, white 23, sen.lt. Nikolai Fedorovich Kuznetzov, 436. IAP, 239. IAD, 6. Air Army, Northwest Front, Soviet Union, winter 1943. (25 victories plus 12 in cooperation)

P-40K-5 (42-9768), white 255, Maj. Edward "Big Ed" M. Nollmeyer, CO  26 FS/51 FG, Kunming, Chína, December 1943. (5 victories)

P-40K, white 15, 25 FS, 51 FG, Assam Valley, India 1944.

-    nicely detailed and highly accurate model, arguably the best 1/72 P-40 currently available
-    extremely easy assembly
-    wide variety of colourful schemes
-    accurate decals
-    also available: pre-cut masks M72015, figures and great many other detail sets to improve your model even further