The brrrt is worse than the bite... Shark mouth schemes....

[WIX_Archive]

Hi All,
We all see P-40 Warhawks with shark mouth paint schemes but there are tones of other aircraft with them too.

Edit: I am trying to clean up threads so I will be merging any shark mouth related threads into this one to make it easier to find.

[Swiss Mustangs]

Swiss AF Bf-109E-3 J-345 in 1940



Martin

[WIX_Archive]

Part 1


Douglas A-20G Havoc of the 90th BS/3rd BG 1944.
Source: Jack Cook Collection via the WRG Archives.


Douglas A4D-1 Skyhawks of Attack Squadron Forty-Three (VA-43) in flight near Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, VA.
Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation via the WRG Archives.


1st Lt Gene Sommerich of the 12th FS and his P-38J Lightning #223 "St Louis Blues" with shark mouth on nacelles
Source: Jack Cook Collection via the WRG Archives.


B-17 Flying Fortress/42-32012/IW-P of the 401st BG/614th BS.


B-24J Liberator/44-40728/Boise Bronc of the 320th BS/90th BG


B-17 Flying Fortress/42-3555/Tiger Girl went missing after 12 missions on Bremen raid, November 26, 1943


B-26C 42-107582 The Shark (coded RJ-B) of the 454th Bomb Sq, 323rd BG


Chinese ground crew prepare a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk named "Rose Marie" of the 16th FS/51st FG Fighter Squadron for A Mission. China, October 21, 1942.


Colonel David 'Tex' Hill Of Hunt, TX, Air Ace Of The 'Flying Tigers' gets Into his plane just before take off on a mission from his base somewhere
in China, October 2, 1945


Colonel Robert L. Scott, Jr. Commanding officer of the 23rd FG, stands beside his Curtiss P-40 at Kunming, China, Before His Departure To
the US, January 4, 1943


Elizebeth, an unidentified (but colorful) shark-mouthed P-51 Mustang of the 361st FG.


Martin B-26B-10-MA Marauder/41-18292/Idiots Delight from the 444th BS/320th BG/12th AF


Lt. Robert Huber Of Sage City, Kansas, The Pilot Of A Liaison Plane For A Field Artillery Unit, Somewhere In France


Martin B-26C Marauder 42-43304/The Marlin of the 444th BS/320th BG


One of the AVG's export Hawk 81s two months after being absorbed into the 23rd FG is seen on short final at Kunming airfield, China


P-40E serial 41-35402 Hold'n My Own (ship #38) assigned to 1LT Dallas A. Clinger, 16th FS/23rd FG, Kweilin, China


P-40K assigned to MAJ Edward M. Nollmeyer, commander of the 26th FS/51st FG, Kunming, China


P-40K Warhawk/King Boogie assigned to Captain William D. Grosvenor, Jr of the 75th FS/23rd FG. Beel, as he was nicknamed, was officially credited with five confirmed aerial victories


Captain Robert Faro and his P-38 Lightning, January 20, 1943


P-38F Lightning/Japanese Sandman II


P-51B Mustang (ship #261) of the 26th FS/51st FG, October 20, 1944.


P-51C Mustang of the 26th FS/51st FG as ship #269


P-51C Mustangs of the 26th FS/51st FG warming up on November 16, 1944.


This shark-mouthed Tomahawk began its life as part of the vaunted American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers and now serves in a Chinese-American training unit, September 22-27, 1943.


Shark-mouthed P-38 Lightnings of the 39th FS/35th FG


B-26 Marauder/42-96165 of the 397th BG


Swiss Air Force Messerschmitt Bf 109


Henschel Hs 129S


Early model Bf 109 with sharks teeth.


Messerschmitt Bf 110 with sharks teeth.


Messerschmitt Bf 110 with sharks teeth.


Early model Bf 109 with sharks teeth.

[Jack Cook]

16th FS P-40E "Rose Marie" China Nov. 1942 goofy but authentic.

[Sean Curtiss]

Ok, we have two possibilities here:
1) The artist that painted the mouth was drunk!
2) A pilot's answer to his wife, since she was nastier than most!

[bdk]

If I had laid it out and painted it with a brush it wouldn't look that nice! I can only paint simple geometric shapes...

[Sean Curtiss]

If I had laid it out and painted it with a brush it wouldn't look that nice! I can only paint simple geometric shapes...

[The Inspector]

Again modellers (and anal markings types) take note- the layout and style are different from side to side, tongues, teeth, lip shapes, either two different guys did it at the same time or the artist sobered up from one side to the other.

[Oscar Duck]

Gee Jack. Nice pic.

Wait until the paint police see this. They'll be telling us that the original painter 'got it wrong'!

[Chris Brame]

In the first picture it looks like Rose Marie is embarrassed at all those men looking up underneath her !

[Sean Curtiss]

In the first picture it looks like Rose Marie is embarrassed at all those men looking up underneath her !

Hey, now that's a goog explanation!

[sdennison]

Looks like the definition of "motif". What Leon Spinks wants for Christmas.

What, You no like my artwork?

[JDK]

Some time ago we had a discussions about shark mouths. I believe this is the earliest W.W.II squadron-level shark-mouth scheme, pre-dating 112 Sqn RAF (who copied this kind of photo of a 110) and the AVG, who copied the 112 Sqn boys.


Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-382-0211-22, Flugzeug Messerschmitt Me 110

I kinda like the shadow.

[Mgawa]

I think that similar images are published long time ago but I can not trace in the moment when and where. Anyway this is good find

[Dan K]

Any chance an old Bf-109C might have survived Spain to make it to September '39? Maybe Fliegerschule?

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/ ... 2/109c.htm