RE: first war bird, how to decide?
for mine I would look at a zero of some sort, it has a wide track landing gear, nice nose moment and largish wings for it's size. I have seen a few of these flying downhere and they a a pleasure to fly by all accounts.
Yellow have a nice one but it is very $$$. Someone was saying TF are going to release one??? TF kits are not exactly scale and on some they take great liberits in order to get a better flying plane - corsair large and small has enlarged tailplane surfaces. On the other hand the P40 is very close in it's outline. The P40 flies very well but you have a narrow track ladning gear and robart retracts that are a pain to say the least.
On my P40 I added a jr gyro to rudder which made take off a breeze plus also added extra grub screws to stop the strut rotating. another addition was robostruts and these really help.
cheers
Peter