Crimea_River
Marshal
Well, good luck!
**** DONE: 1/48 P-40N RAAF - Aircraft in Foreign Service WWII
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N4521U
Colonel
I have been a bizzy boy today.............. 2 colors!!!!!
I got the gray on the bottom, and the O.D. on top.
Tail white tomorrow. I've already painted the control surfaces.
I will be outing the dust guard on the tail wheel using some of my Crayola soft putty. Then attaching the fiddley bits.
Closer!
I got the gray on the bottom, and the O.D. on top.
Tail white tomorrow. I've already painted the control surfaces.
I will be outing the dust guard on the tail wheel using some of my Crayola soft putty. Then attaching the fiddley bits.
Closer!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Bewdy work there Bill! I'll be painting my white first.
T Bolt
Colonel
Looking real good Bill. What did you use for the OD color?
Nice work so far!
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N4521U
Colonel
I would be thrashed in here if I told what OD was used............................. it is Tamiya tho.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
That sure is a'looking good Bill.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Why would you be thrashed. I'll be using Tamiya too.
Bill, I noticed you did not fill the little holes in front of and below the windscreen. Should done that before the green.
Bill, I noticed you did not fill the little holes in front of and below the windscreen. Should done that before the green.
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N4521U
Colonel
Sh!te! How about the bump in Front of the windscreen??????
It may have a repaired panel.............................
It may have a repaired panel.............................
Crimea_River
Marshal
The bump is there in all the P-40N pics I have Bill but the hole should definitely be filled and made flush with the surrounding skin.
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N4521U
Colonel
Sometimes I just "get over it"!
Frustration sets in.
Frustration sets in.
Good to see the colours on Bill!
Wildcat
Major
Looking good Bill!
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Really looks good with the OD color on it. Gonna do mine the same way....
Charles
Charles
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N4521U
Colonel
Thanks guys, much appreciated.
Now, today I went to my PMS meeting, this is what Annie refers to them as, (IPMS). There was a prize winning P-40 there, and the holes were in place! He had no idea what they were for, had no idea of ground wire or the floppy tubes. I think the tubes are retrofitted relief tubes!
However, the wire on top was speculated to be close in approach radio antena! Something to receive weak signals for approach to land. Make sense? Dunno, something to search more for.
Meanwhile, I remove the holes. I looked thru many ref books at the meeting today, and nada, not a one with inspection ports.
I sailor on.
Now, today I went to my PMS meeting, this is what Annie refers to them as, (IPMS). There was a prize winning P-40 there, and the holes were in place! He had no idea what they were for, had no idea of ground wire or the floppy tubes. I think the tubes are retrofitted relief tubes!
However, the wire on top was speculated to be close in approach radio antena! Something to receive weak signals for approach to land. Make sense? Dunno, something to search more for.
Meanwhile, I remove the holes. I looked thru many ref books at the meeting today, and nada, not a one with inspection ports.
I sailor on.
Crimea_River
Marshal
I read somewhere Bill that it was a signal light on earlier versions. That's why the kit supplies a clear part to insert into the hole.
EDIT: Here's more. A picture and a quote of a quote from another site referring to a blue formation light on the fuselage
"P40E-1 aircraft had the provisions for identification lights. The first 800 P40E-1s, 41-24776 to 41-36353 (ET100-999) had the British type recognition lights. This consisted of one upper and one lower light and Formation lights, forward of the cockpit, on the fuselage sides. The remainder, 41-36354 to 41-36953 (EV100-699) had USAAF type recognition lights of one upper and three lower lights.
USAAF P40Es 40-358, 40-382 to 41-13599 had no lights, as didn't the first 400 P40N-1s."
EDIT: Here's more. A picture and a quote of a quote from another site referring to a blue formation light on the fuselage
"P40E-1 aircraft had the provisions for identification lights. The first 800 P40E-1s, 41-24776 to 41-36353 (ET100-999) had the British type recognition lights. This consisted of one upper and one lower light and Formation lights, forward of the cockpit, on the fuselage sides. The remainder, 41-36354 to 41-36953 (EV100-699) had USAAF type recognition lights of one upper and three lower lights.
USAAF P40Es 40-358, 40-382 to 41-13599 had no lights, as didn't the first 400 P40N-1s."
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N4521U
Colonel
I am more nollageable now......... thanks for that. I'm chipping away attem!
dneid
Staff Sergeant
Looking way nice, Bill. Guess that cheap rum and coke is working out for ya'. 
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