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  • Member since
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  • From: Winter Park, FL
Hasegawa Curtiss P-40N kit...
Posted by fotofrank on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:46 AM

I'm looking for a Hasegawa P-40N kit. Or maybe even the AMT P-40N kit. I know they are old kits and probably difficult to find, but maybe someone has one of the kits in their stash that they could part with for a reasonable price. I did find a Hasegawa P-40N kit on ebay but the guy wants over $150 for the kit. I don't thinks so, pal. Anyway, after my dad passed in 2002, my mother sent me his Army Air Corps flight logs. My dad was a flight instructor at Enid Army Air Field for a year and a half before being assigned to Lowry Field outside Denver, to begin B-29 flight engineer school in January 1945. While waiting for the flight engineer school to begin, he was able to log some stick time in a P-40, the only fighter he flew while in the Army Air Corps. I recently found a couple of pictures from the period of P-40 formations and the airplanes are P-40N's. The P-40's are from Peterson Field, some 70 miles south of Lowry near Colorado Springs and one of them could be the P-40 my dad actually flew! Or maybe not. But still, it's very tantalizing to think I could build a model of a fighter my dad actually flew!

Post here or PM me if you have one of the kits you might want to sell...

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:21 AM

You didn't mention a scale, but Mega Hobby has a 72nd kit for 10bucks.

https://www.megahobby.com/products/p-40n-warhawk-1-72-hasegawa.html

And if its 48th scale, i just checked the US e-bay, and tehre areseveral AMT kits, the cheapest at $16 and a hasegawa one currently at 10.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.XP-40N.TRS0&_nkw=P-40N&_sacat=0

 

 

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On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    June 2017
  • From: Winter Park, FL
Posted by fotofrank on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:32 AM

Thanks, Bish. Your search yielded better results than mine did. When I saw that one kit for over $150, my vision got kinda blurry.

Oh yeah, I'm looking for 1/48 scale.

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:50 AM

With some sellesr you just wonder what planet they are on. I was on the UK site a while back looking for a 1/72nd harrier. One guy had one for over £150, though you could pay in instalments which was nice of him. At the same time there were about 20 of the same kit all for under £20, but of course you had to pay that in a oner.

Tough choice.

Hope your able to finda kit you want.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    June 2017
  • From: Winter Park, FL
Posted by fotofrank on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:19 AM

Well, I think I found one with your help, Bish. Twenty-five dollars and free shipping. I can cover that.

Wasn't 94th Bomb Group based near you way back when?

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:37 AM

No worries.

Yep, i go past the old base every day, now known as Rougham airfield. One of many around this area

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    June 2017
  • From: Winter Park, FL
Posted by fotofrank on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 8:20 AM

Well, the search is over. Found an AMT P-40N kit from a shop right here in Florida! I'll have it Saturday. Bish, couldn't have found it without your help. Thanks!

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 8:46 AM

No worries, and glad you have been able to support your LHS.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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