If you don't mind, Sir, I am sending a link to my Pavla AT-9 build:
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235078134-curtiss-at-9-wlliams-field-arizona-early-summer-1942/&tab=comments#comment-3784126
I am sure any research is coals to Newcastle, but some of it might be useful to you.
If you are doing, or have done, a P-43 Lancer in 1/72 I shall hail you as a veritable god among men....
James (Old Man)