Since you are basing this kit off of the pacific theater of WWII, I seriously think you need to do more research on the planes that were used during that time. I feel like a Corsair (not the dreadful company) would be the perfect representation for this set
I'm assuming it's a P-40 Warhawk in the novelties and such, which was also pretty iconic as something easily recognizable as a WWII fighter.
But yeah, the Corsair was probably the most formidable and prolific fighter in the war, although I think the Hellcat had the most enemy kills of any allied naval aircraft.
The shark teeth are meant to represent the P-40 because the Flying Tigers were technically in the Pacific Theatre. We do plan on changing up one of the novelties to help represent the reverse gullwing of the F4U Corsair. We do thank you guys for your input and your interest.
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P-40s were strictly land-based though and mostly used in the earlier part of the war (and were best known for their use in China). There's a stronger case for including carrier-based fighters like the F4F Wildcat or F6F Hellcat, which have a recognizable "fat" profile, and were also much more widely used than the F4U Corsair. The carrier-based fighters also actually wore the blue color scheme of the set, while P-40s, being land-based, were mostly painted brown and green.
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Definitely appreciate the feedback. You are correct in that the P-40s did not dominate the Pacific theatre and that the role that they did play were over in China. We still included the sharktooth novelties to pay homage to the Flying Tigers since they did represent the Americans in the earlier stages.
We are choosing to incorporate the inverse-gullwings in one of our novelties because even though the Corsair did not serve as a carrier based aircraft until late-1943, it was still quite the iconic aircraft just as the P-51 is seen as a more iconic aircraft than the P-47 even though less were made.
While we are not tying to incorporate exact models of aircraft on the novelties, we are trying to present some iconic designs that were used on those aircraft.
I hope this makes sense and I definitely love that we're getting some more advanced feedback like this.
