Randy Asplund's

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Aviation Models

 

Scroll down to see a Fantasy painting of this aircraft below!

 

Curtiss P-40 B/C Tomahawk

Minicraft/Academy Models 1/72 scale

This is the Flying Tiger mount Charles Older, 3rd squadron of the American Volunteer Group known as "Hell's Angels." I have seen film of this exact plane and of interviews with it's famous pilot. I think I got the colors and details pretty close.

 

 

 

Flying Tiger-Pouncing Dragon

$ 1,275.00

16X20
Acrylic

This painting depicts a fantasy exaggeration representing the teamwork between the Nationalist Chinese and the A.V.G. (American Volunteer Group) in the second world war. The American unit, known as the Flying Tigers, flew on behalf of the Chinese, so their U.S. made Curtiss P-40 B/C Tomahawk fighter planes carried the emblem of China, not the U.S.A. The emblem is repeated in the clouds. The Dragon, representing the Chinese Spirit, siezes a Japanese Zero fighter from the tail of the plane flown by Charles Older of the Hell's Angels unit.

See the plastic model I built of this aircraft and the Zero fighter in the model aviation section of the web site.