**** DONE: Curtiss P-40M-5 Kittyhawk III, ‘Wairarapa Wildcat’, C’wealth GB

[T Bolt]

Looking good Wayne

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Looking real good Wayne.

 

[Airframes]

Sure is !

 

[Wayne Little]

Fuselage now has the extended tail section in place....and try as I might not all the panel lines match up perfectly from the joining...so a bit of extra work required....and fitted the cockpit as well!

 

[javlin]

Looks good from here Wayne but you are 110% while I am at best 90-95% .Now I have seen two schools of thought on these tail assemblies and the other is to glue it to the fuse first then build like a regular plane.I think this is done to forgo the issues you just mentioned?Cheers

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Wayne, it amazes me how effortless you make this seem. Very nice work sir!

 

[imalko]

I'm always amazed how clean your work is. As if not a drop of glue had been used, but everything just stick together by itself. Truly amazing!

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm with Igor.

 

[Airframes]

Me too. Looking very nice so far, and no doubt you'll get those panels in line !

 

[vikingBerserker]

Just amazing.....

 

[T Bolt]

Very neat work Wayne, I can't even see that tail joint! I have a P-40K kit with the same arrangement and every time I take it out of the box thinking of doing it I look at that separate tail and put it back!

 

[N4521U]

Great stuff Wayne, we learn so much watching your builds take shape. I have a question tho. Do you file down the mating surfaces flat on the fuselage and wings to minimize the gaps for filling? I do and I get little gap filling and it looked to me you may do the same thing.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Never a speck of dust, how do you do it!!!!!!!!!!!..............Looks good though.

 

[Wayne Little]

Great stuff Wayne, we learn so much watching your builds take shape. I have a question tho. Do you file down the mating surfaces flat on the fuselage and wings to minimize the gaps for filling? I do and I get little gap filling and it looked to me you may do the same thing.

Always check and dry fit everything to get the best fit, so yes there is filing and sanding to some degree.

when I fitted the tail section together I was very careful to get the parts together with proper alignment, as well as the fuselage section, but once they went together some of the panel lines just did not line up correctly.

 

[Wayne Little]

Wings glued together today....sanding tomorrow!

 

[T Bolt]

Always one step ahead of me Wayne!

 

[Wayne Little]

Always one step ahead of me Wayne!

Seems that way doesn't it....

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Looking great.

 

[Wayne Little]

some pics before i glued the wings together... wings are nearly done now more tomorrow!

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice Wayne