1/48 P-40M

Wildcat · Oct 21, 2014

Here's my latest build hot of the workbench/dining room table.
Italeri 1/48 P-40M painted to represent A29-358 "Jen1" of S/L Stan Galton, 86 squadon RAAF, Merauke, Dutch New Guinea. The top colours are painted with Tamiya spray cans and the under side brush painted. Decals are from Tally Ho! decals. She's not 100% accurate but my pretty happy with the end result.
Excuse some of the shots, its hard to get decent photos at night.

fubar57 · Oct 21, 2014

Nice one Andy. Gonna have to check out those Italeri kits one day.

Geo

T Bolt · Oct 21, 2014

Real nice Andy

Gnomey · Oct 21, 2014

Good work Andy!

vikingBerserker · Oct 21, 2014

I love the RAAF P-40 birds, well done!

Crimea_River · Oct 21, 2014

Good job Andy.

Wildcat · Oct 22, 2014

Thanks boys!!

vikingBerserker said:
I love the RAAF P-40 birds, well done!

Me too. All I need is a "K" model to complete my RAAF PTO line up. Mind you I don't think I'll be stopping at four P-40's!

Wurger · Oct 22, 2014

I love these Australian kites. Well done Andy and what a great collection.

Wildcat · Oct 22, 2014

Thanks Wojtek!

N4521U · Oct 22, 2014

Verry nice, all ofem. I'll be building an F-L for the next GB. OK*X, Africa, a Davidson bird..

rochie · Oct 22, 2014

very nice Andy, did my Italeri P-40 as "Hep Cat" of 75 Sqn RAAF, got a Hasegawa to do a Kiwi bird "Wairarapa wildcat" in the stash as well

Wildcat · Oct 23, 2014

Thanks guys! You did a great job on Hep Cat too Karl

Wayne Little · Oct 25, 2014

Nicely done Andy, great little collection building up..!

Wildcat · Oct 25, 2014

Cheers Wayne!

Westfield Charlie · Oct 25, 2014

Nice collection of P-40's. How did you mask the upper body when you used the rattle cans? I use spray cans and hand paint myself.

Wildcat · Oct 25, 2014

Thanks mate. I spray the top half one colour as I'm sure you do, then I make masks for the wings out of newspaper and tape them down - making sure the edges don't sit up too high as you'll get spray under the mask. The fuselage is more painful, I use many bits of curved Tamiya tape joined together to achieve the desired pattern. It's time consuming to get the right shape but it looks good when it's all unmasked.

Westfield Charlie · Oct 27, 2014

Thanks for the tip. I've hesitated to use masks because of the spray getting underneath, and settled for hand-painting the second color. I just did a PBY using masking tape, but the demarcation lines were all pretty much straight, so it wasn't really difficult. I'll try your method on my next camo.

Wildcat · Oct 28, 2014

Give it a shot. It can be tedious work getting the masking tape into the correct pattern, but I sure you'll be happy with the end results.

at6 · Nov 1, 2014

Great collection of P-40s there.

Wildcat · Nov 1, 2014

Thanks mate

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