**** DONE: 1/24 P-40 - Aircraft in Foreign Service WWII

[ccheese]

Was up early this morning, so got some work done on the P-40. Manage to get the keel, the formers on one side and the tail ass'y all pinned down. Depending on the weather, tomorrow, I may be able to work on it some more. FYI, there's no heat in the garage.

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Great !!!

 

[T Bolt]

Looking great Charles. That looks like a short tail fuselage, not a long tail like on the box art so you should be fine building a P-40E

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice start Charles.

 

[ccheese]

Worked like a Turk, most of the day and have all the formers and all of the stringers on the fuselage. Next move is to paint the stringers with clear dope to seal the balsa, prior to covering with tissue. If I can find time, tomorrow (Sunday), I'll pin down the wings.

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Wow !!! A quick build Pal and a nice job so far.

 

[ccheese]

Wow !!! A quick build Pal and a nice job so far.

Thanks. BTW, what color is the darker of the two colors on the Russian camo ??

Charles

 

[Vic Balshaw]

WOW again Charles, that WAS quick work.

 

[Wurger]

..... what color is the darker of the two colors on the Russian camo ??

Charles

The camo is made of the US colours used for the RAF camo schemes. These were the DuPont paints 71-065 ( 71-035 or 71-009 ) Dark Earth, 71-013 Olive Drab for tops ant the 71-021 Natural Grey on undersides. The spinner propably was of the British Sky colour.

 

[ccheese]

I have the Olive Drab and the Neutral Grey. What does that "dark earth" equate to in Model Master enamel ?? Of course, you know I'm not good at doing camo....

Charles

 

[N4521U]

Wow Charles................. looks like everything worked out okay last week then..... good to see.
It's lookin the biz!

 

[Wildcat]

Great progress Charles!

 

[Wayne Little]

great work Charles.

 

[Wurger]

I have the Olive Drab and the Neutral Grey. What does that "dark earth" equate to in Model Master enamel ?? Of course, you know I'm not good at doing camo....

Charles

The correct paints for the camo are :

The Dark Earth - ModelMaster 1742 or 2108

The Olive Drab - ModelMaster 1764

The Natural Grey - ModelMaster 1731 mixed with some a blue colour.

Here samples of these colours..

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice to see those colours displayed like this Wojtek, it makes me realises that the colouring on my monitor is quite good.

 

[Wurger]

Oh .. it means you don't need to buy a new one ...

 

[woody]

Nice work Charles.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Charles!

 

[Wayne Little]

Great assist Wojtek!

 

[ccheese]

Thanks for the info on the paint, Wojtek. All assistance is appreciated.

Got two coats of clear dope on the fuselage. Also worked on pinning down the wings last night and this morning.
The dihedral is 7/8" per side and is set. I gotta quit, I'm wiped out.

Charles