Hasegawa P-40E

[Wildcat]

G'day guys, after my false start to the MTO group build I needed something to revitalise my interest in model building. I was going to come in on the heavy hittesr build with a stuka, but I couldn't get motivated enough, so I pulled out the Hasegawa P-40E to get me back on track. This bird will be finished as a rather colourful RAAF OTU crate, which should look good with the rest of my RAAF collection.
Anyway here is the finished cockpit, dodgy tamiya tape seatbelts and all!

 

[Heinz]

Looks fantastic mate.

Its gunna look sweet, I do like the P 40 OTU schemes

 

[109ROAMING]

Great start mate! 8) should be a ripper!

 

[lesofprimus]

Pit looks great, glad to see u gettin back into the groove...

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nicely done!

 

[Jim68]

Nice start Wildcat, please stay interested!!!! I am looking forward to seeing this done. Top stuff mate.8)
Jim

 

[ozhawk40]

Good on ya Andy! My favorite subject too - the P-40. Nice start, keep updating us on this one please. Have you got a profile of your subject?

Cheers

Peter

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Andy, looks the biz mate !

 

[B-17engineer]

Looking awesome!

 

[Lucky13]

Nice work Andy!

 

[Wildcat]

Thanks for the kind words guys Pete here is what she will look like.

 

[Airframes]

That is going to look a cracker! Is it natural metal, or painted silver?

 

[Wildcat]

Natural metal Terry, with a white tail and wing leading edges.

 

[Wayne Little]

That looks real interesting Andy, look forward to more man!

 

[Wurger]

With all here Andy.Nice model and great choice of painting.Keep working.

 

[djos]

This looks great.

I hope that next pictures will be better (more light), so we can see this in full glorry

Best regards

 

[Airframes]

Should look bril in NMF Andy. You going to try the method I posted a while ago?

 

[Wildcat]

Sorry for the late reply Terry, I'll be going with a Tamiya TS-83 spray can mainly because I have it left over from my Spitfire build. The results aren't that bad either. As for my latest update, I have installed the cockpit in the fuselage halves and made some progress on the wings. Prop is painted and the yellow paint on the spinner is really giving me the sh*ts! Hands up if you hate using yellow (and white for that matter) paint??

 

[Heinz]

Looks great mate if its anything like your Spit it'll be a cracker!

I agree white/yellow are the worst to use, especially brush paiting its mind destroying!

Cheers

 

[109ROAMING]

Looking sweet mate!