**** FINISHED: P-40E Leningrad Front, USSR 1943 - Aircraft in Foreign Service GB

[Nxthanos]

Please withdraw this entry from consideration, thank you.

 

[Crimea_River]

Well done!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Good one Chris.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree, excellent job!

 

[Florence]

Looks the goods alright. Nice work.

 

[Wildcat]

Nicely done!

 

[Wayne Little]

Well done Chris!

 

[rochie]

i like it, well done

 

[Njaco]

Russians did use rather large kill markings didn't they! Excellent work!

 

[T Bolt]

Nicely done!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Excellent job Chris!

 

[Wurger]

Looking nice . A good job on the model.

 

[Nxthanos]

Wasn't the best kit in the world, but it came out ok.

 

[Wurger]

That's true.

 

[Airframes]

Good one Chris.

 

[jjp_nl]

Nice! After I'm done with my Tomahawk I'm most certainly gonna get me one of those later P-40's, an Aleutian Tiger of sorts seems like an interesting thing to do, to kinda link it to my AVG kite since the Aleutian Tiger were apparently commanded by Claire Chennaults son.

 

[Nxthanos]

I have decals (and a good p-40E Otaki kit) for an aluetion Tiger p-40e.

I hoped to show with this build that if you put in a little effort, even an older less detailed kit can look decent.

Many model builders starting with myself can't afford to buy the latest tamiya or hasegawa 1/48 offering, or eduard extras and so forth, so we have to rely on the secondary market and a little kit bashing as it were!

My little P-40 will win no awards, but he's decent and that is good enough for me!

 

[jjp_nl]

Plus, if you think about it working your way through an older kit (be it ancient Airfix/Otaki/some old Monogram thingy or whatever) is more often then not a lot more challenging (even OOB) then slamming together a typical shake bake Tamigawa kit (which doesn't mean those aren't nice, as they can be quite relaxing to build), let alone adding extra details/scribe panel lines...etc. etc. IMHO there's a lot more to learn in terms of basic techniques, and taking it to the next level in terms of adding extra details etc. from building these old kits.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work!

 

[Catch22]

Nicely done!