gijive
Airman 1st Class
At last it's finished, and I am mildly pleased with it, considering it's the worst P40 in 1/72 out there, poor cockpit detail, cockpit cover in one piece so only closed position, just as well. No dihedral on the model unless you change it, (see thread posted last week). This is not a model to view from underneath as the wing joints show through the under carriage holes in the wings.
Tail number is too big, no detail on rudder, wide line son canopy, which I painted too wide on the right side. Oh and rubbish guns!
That said it's been fun looking up references and getting the colour right and the weathering as near to the original photos as possible. There is some artistic licence as I found no pics of the wings on 68 other than shown here or on other peoples models, which made getting the patterns spot on impossible, ( no good looking at the one sin the box! )the sides are fairly good though. Good practice.
Paints used, mainly Tamiya Acrylics with some Humbrol enamal.
Humbrol matt varnish
Tamiya undercoat.
Tail number is too big, no detail on rudder, wide line son canopy, which I painted too wide on the right side. Oh and rubbish guns!
That said it's been fun looking up references and getting the colour right and the weathering as near to the original photos as possible. There is some artistic licence as I found no pics of the wings on 68 other than shown here or on other peoples models, which made getting the patterns spot on impossible, ( no good looking at the one sin the box! )the sides are fairly good though. Good practice.
Paints used, mainly Tamiya Acrylics with some Humbrol enamal.
Humbrol matt varnish
Tamiya undercoat.
Had it been me and I'd have been building in 1/72 scale, it would probably been flying in warbird heaven by now..!
