Outstanding P-40, lawdog114.  Ditto the base.  Just beautiful.  Also, I'll add my congrats on being the first to finish.  You have set the bar way high.

That P-40 looks amazing Joe! I'll add it to the front page ASAP.

Well, cockpit is done, sealing up the fuselage now - and yes the plug parts for the tail are annoying...

nice P-40 Law !! Sweet job !

Warts and all photo included. Finished major assembly and most painting. I need to touch up my many mistakes to get things to the ready for decal stage. And reattach the radio mast and (1) .303 I have managed to break off so far .

The Model Master paints worked well, except the Dark Earth. After much mixing it was still thin and runny, so Humbrol 29 went on instead. I had complained about the Humbrol US Interior Green before. Found it works better over another paint color. It was very poor on bare plastic. Hopefully later Sunday I can get in all my touch up painting. Got to get some better photos taken, too. 

That's coming out to be another nice p40 MJames, looking forward to the finished product

Getting closer, after several disasters this week. Got the painting mostly done, and glued on the parts I broke previously. Added to that was one of the main gear struts that I managed to break in two places. Twice . Now for some final touch ups, decide on if any weathering, flat coat, and canopy. Hopefully in the next couple of days....

If it's not too late, I would like to join.  This would be my first group build.  My daughter is also building a P-40.  Our kits arrived today, a Revell 1/48 P-40B and an Academy 1/72 P-40B.  We will both be doing an OOB Flying Tigers build.

Becareful with the academy i have done that one but have to post the pics it does not come with paint instructions.

Yeah, we noticed the lack of paint info.  Luckily, she can just use my paint instructions.  Of course, after we looked at her instructions, she managed to loose them.  We have torn the house upside down looking for the.  Oh well, I think that we will be able to manage without them.

James: Nice work, you're almost there!

DJ: Cool, looking forward to them, I've heard a lot about these kits.

Well, my P-40N is together. Still puttying and sanding the plugs Hasegawa put in for the tail and razorback. Pics when I'm done fiddling with the seams.

Cliff

DJinFlorida

Yeah, we noticed the lack of paint info.  Luckily, she can just use my paint instructions.  Of course, after we looked at her instructions, she managed to loose them.  We have torn the house upside down looking for the.  Oh well, I think that we will be able to manage without them.

Revell has downloadable versions of their instructions at their website. The paint instructions for their P-40 are wrong for a Flying Tiger's P-40 anyway. The decals are also from 2 different planes and merged together as well. For a correct paint scheme the spinner should be the brown camo color, the camo should be carried under the rear side windows instead of interior green, also where the instructions show the wing rondels should be a brown circle as this was stenciled around for the RAF rondels. The CAF rondels were closer to the wingtip and with the Revell kit the decals for the tops and bottoms should be reversed as the ones for the bottoms are closer to the right size. The largest error with the decals is the fuselage band that should be red, white, or blue, depending on squadron, instead of yellow and the decals for the wheels should be red white and blue instead of red, white, and yellow.

Nice.  I will try to incorporate at least some of these changes into our builds.  As far as the fuselage bands go, where can I find which color we should be using?  The Academy kit is the plane flown by Chuck Older, and the Revell kit is the plane flown by Claire Chenault.

We have our pilots done.  I am overcoming some shoulder issues which is causing my right hand to be numb, so the detail isn't where I want it, but this is proving to be pretty good physical therapy.  Sorry about the low quality photos, all I have is an iPhone. 

AVG (Flying Tigers) Info

This site has the pilot, plane, tail and fuse numbers.

Fuselage Band Colors:

 1st  = White

  2nd = Blue

  3rd = Red

Some of the AVG Hawks may be in these pictures taken at the Curtiss Factory in spring of 1941.

Revell Decals

Angel (sitting) and 5 kills = Fuselage # 77 Pilot R. T. Smith CAF(Tail) # P-8173*

*Crashed on take off, Engine Failure, 23 February '42

Tail (Chinese Air Force) # P-8127* = Fuselage # 47 Pilot R. T. Smith

*This plane was transferred from 2nd Squadron to 3rd. It still carried Bert Christman's pedaling Panda (for John Petach). It was updated with repainted fuse band and Angels (standing) added to the nose. It also had 10 kill marks 1/2 the size of the 5 from P-8173

Fuselage # 14 = P-8127 after the take over by the USAAC

Wheel Decals = Wrong Should be Red, White, and Blue. 3rd Sq. had these. 1st and 2nd had either Brown or Gray wheel covers.

Roundels = ? Some 2nd squadron planes had oversize underwing roundels. The standard was about 36" so about 3/4" for the model. The camo stencils Curtiss used marked out around the RAF roundel position where the decal instruction sheet shows. The CAF roundels were actually painted further out on the wings and partially overlapped the masked out portion.

I hope all that helps any and all out there.

I'd like to contribute the Academy 1/72 P-40M/N please. At this stage I'm thinking RAAF, but that may change.

Cheers

Tony

I got the fuselage together.  It was not a great fit.

I need to fix the seam and paint the headrest in the cockpit.

Also, the left half had a defect at the front, which left a hole that will need to be filled.

I will paint over the green chromate under the rear glass now that I know the paint guide is wrong. 

Next up is the wings.

DJinFlorida

We have our pilots done.  I am overcoming some shoulder issues which is causing my right hand to be numb, so the detail isn't where I want it, but this is proving to be pretty good physical therapy.  Sorry about the low quality photos, all I have is an iPhone. 

The figures look good to me - keep it up .  Also, how fortunate you and your daughter are, to have this activity together.  It's what the world needs more of ...

Thanks Ordie.  We are having a blast with this build.  This is her second model.  On her first, the only thing I did was spray it.  She did all of the hand painting, cutting, gluing, and masking.  I think on this one she is strong enough to do her own spraying.  

We got a bunch done in the last couple of days.  I will post more pictures tomorrow.  

Hi DJ

I'm glad to hear you're building it with your daughter. I think its a great hobby to share and great for your daughter to get some one on one 'daddy' time.

Cheers

Tony

My daughter got the pilot set and closed up the fuselage.



Then we started on our wheels.  She is doing her wheels up.  I had to paint the wheels because Revell decals have the wrong color.

Just telling everyone that i am done with this but the pics have been going to multiple locations on several cpus so i have had trouble locating the but here is what i was able to find.

Again I apologize for the non chronological order of the work in progress photos but i am still locating the photos.

DG & Frightful: Nice work guys, really coming along!

Sprayed the underside of my P-40N today and will hopefully have some photos up when I get the topside painted.

I'm sorry I haven't been active at all really. This mobile site sucks and is a pain in the neck to navigate through.

Good to see you again RBB, I'd thought you'd left with the forum change till I checked and saw you'd been on about a week ago.

Welcome back!!! Hopefully things will sort themselves out eventually.

I'm also up to my neck in group builds, I might just finish yours in time.

We got the wings on and are ready to paint.

We got the base coat on, but then ran out of tape, so we will have to wait to paint the camo.

RRB: Lol, no big deal, finish when you can!

DJ: Those are really looking good!

Well my P-40N is painted and but I need to clear some photos from my camera's memory card before I can take photos so I went ahead and started decaling her. Will get photos up when I get off my butt and copy my photos over to DVD-rom...

I'm very sorry about my in-activity, could anyone who who is not on the roster tell me? I would appreciate it very much and I would save me changing in and out of the pesky mobile site.