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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:01 AM

Awesome Job Arki,is that seatbelt AM?Whered ya get it?Got a link?

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:10 AM

Gotta Problem:I opened the box of my P-40 to find he Canopy was broken and the flap lever was missing,not there,gone.Im gonna mail Revell Monogram and ask them to send a new one.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:25 AM

Just a P-40 comic:

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:26 AM

Oops,its a little small...And I forgot the link : (

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KINGTHAD

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May 2004
From: Dallas

Posted by KINGTHAD on Friday, July 22, 2005 8:21 AM

Nice looking office Arki

Thad

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rjkplasticmod

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February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, July 22, 2005 9:54 AM

The pics aren't great, but the pit looks good Arki. Definitely time to upgrade the ol' digi cam.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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arki30

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February 2004
From: Second City

Posted by arki30 on Friday, July 22, 2005 1:33 PM

wing_nut, yardbird78, paknick-40, kingthad, rjkplasticmod, thanks for the good comments. Camera's a 1.5 mp with no zoom....it just doesn't cut it for that close in work.

wing_nut, good suggestion with pulling back. If I still have this camera later, I'll try that and just accept the smaller detail. Cockpit is now fully assembled and ready to install into fuselage, so it'll have to be a different project I try that on.

PakNick-40, you know for the life of me I can't quite remember where I got them from as I've had the PE for awhile. I think it was Squadron.com. Eduard sells single PE frets for USN and Army Air Force aircraft so you get about 4 or 5 seatbelts on one fret which is really nice.

Once again, thanks for the comments and I'll post more as the build progresses.

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pingtang

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April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Friday, July 22, 2005 7:30 PM

arki What I can see of your cockpit looks nice mate. Thumbs Up [tup]

My build is coming along slowly still. I might get a coat of primer on it soon. Then I'll find all the bits that need more attention and I can start painting it.

-Daniel

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Mark Joyce

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March 2004
From: Placerville, CA USA

Posted by Mark Joyce on Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:58 AM

Gary and Joe, your Tomahawks are coming on very nicely! Gary, I forgot what year Monogram came out with their kit, but it's getting a little long in the tooth.

Arki, your cockpit looks great from what I can tell. AMtech's cockpit isn't bad OOB, but I've always had trouble painting the Instrument Panel. How did you do yours?

I primed my Eduard P-40N last Monday with Mr. Surfacer 1000. Unfortunately, I still had a pretty bad seam where the fuselage insert behind the cockpit goes. There're no lines there on the real plane, so I've spent what little time I've had this week after work and family fixing it.

Mark

Ignorance is bliss

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arki30

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February 2004
From: Second City

Posted by arki30 on Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:13 PM

Mark, you're right about the instrument panel on the AMtech. Decent amount of detail but it's not really raised all that much. I used Prismacolor pencils to highlight the gauges and switches, then shot a flat coat over it. I have much better luck with that technique than trying to dry brush everything.

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JoeRugby

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November 2003
From: Virginia

Posted by JoeRugby on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:40 PM

Just a couple of progress pics...not sure of the quality and clarity.

1/48 Revell-o-Gram P40B. This is my first attempt at making my own seat belts. The seat was modified using thin stainless steel wire to better represent the real aircraft. I was going to box in the pit but I have lost my contour guage...no way I would be trying to freehand that bit of work.

As always, critique is welcome...

Check out the WW I Special Interest Group @ http://swannysmodels.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=WW1SIG

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:05 PM

Joe- No offense,but those pics are VERY blurry.

All-got the Modeling the P-40 book today in the mail,its great!

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rjkplasticmod

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February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:24 PM

Sorry Joe, but your Pics are so pixelated that all detail is lost. If you are using your digital Zoom to get closer, don't. Only use the actual lens Zoom without using the digital feature. All it does is digitally crop the image going to the sensor & cause excessive pixelation.

Regards Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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JoeRugby

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November 2003
From: Virginia

Posted by JoeRugby on Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:31 PM

HARUMPH! I will try again this week...Rick thanks for the heads up...even though I have no idea as to what you were describing ! LOL Smile [:)]

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pingtang

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April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:32 PM

Got a coat of primer on my P-40N yesterday. There were a few spots that needed a bit more attention so I'll patch them up, give it another coat of primer and then start spraying colours. I'll start with the white areas hopefully tonight or tomorrow.

Joe Like the others said, the pics are too blurry to really see your work. Try setting the camera to macro mode and don't use any zoom at all. My camera seems to have trouble focussing if you zoom in while in macro mode. Hope to see some better pics soon.

-Daniel

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 7:56 AM

My P 40m is now finished, this was the older Mauve kit built OOB with mix and match decals and codes from the spares box.
Humbrol Authentic Neutral Grey is the under surface colour, the upper Olive Drab is Humbrol # 155, The white on the tailplane is from the Boyd range of paints and is White Primer, the blue is Humbrol # 14.
Earth tone pastels have been used, on the Olive Drab and the tailplanes, to tone them down just a tad, as well as for the muzzle flash, exhausts and cordite stains.

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pingtang

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April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Monday, July 25, 2005 8:13 AM

That looks great Rob. The paint job is very nice and so is the weathering. And it's good to see another RAAF bird. Great work Thumbs Up [tup]

-Daniel

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rjkplasticmod

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February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:05 AM

Rob, Very nice build.

Joe, most P&S type digital cameras will have a zoom lens with some range of mechanical zoom, but then goes into a digital zoom beyond that. The digital zoom feature is pretty much useless on most cameras & gives the type of pixelation seen in your pics.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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Mark Joyce

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March 2004
From: Placerville, CA USA

Posted by Mark Joyce on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:07 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by pingtang

Got a coat of primer on my P-40N yesterday. There were a few spots that needed a bit more attention so I'll patch them up, give it another coat of primer and then start spraying colours. I'll start with the white areas hopefully tonight or tomorrow.

Daniel, are you building my P-40 behind my back? That's exactly where I am with buiding mine, even with the white! Laugh [(-D]

Robert, as I said in the Aircraft Forum--great build!

Mark

Ignorance is bliss

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wing_nut

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April 2005
From: Piscataway, NJ!

Posted by wing_nut on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:30 AM

Very nice Rob... an excellent addition to the GB

Marc

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waikong

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December 2002
From: NYC, USA

Posted by waikong on Monday, July 25, 2005 11:52 AM

Rob, very nice. I especially liked your weathering on white, always find that a bit difficult to look just right.

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Thehannaman2

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August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Monday, July 25, 2005 3:44 PM

Looks great Rob. After the north African schemes, the Kiwi P-40's are my most very favorite! Good job.

Justen

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 7:50 PM

Got a question on the paint.On my Revell-o-Gram instructions for the P-40B is says on the color chart-Zinc Chromate(interior green).Are ZInc Chromate and Interior green the same?

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BlackWolf3945

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December 2002
From: Pominville, NY

Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Monday, July 25, 2005 9:56 PM

Alrighty, the GB page on the website is updated... although the duty roster is not. That will happen soon though...

We have six finished builds so far, I believe, and one or two others which seem to be close.

I've yet to read through all the posts I've missed in detail, but I just wanted to say that there's some nice work going on here. I like the look of the Hasegawa 48th kits the more I see them built, especially the P-40E.

I'm gonna dust off the bench and get crackin' now...

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pingtang

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April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Monday, July 25, 2005 11:10 PM

Got my white sprayed last night. Looks alright with a drop of grey added to give it a better scale appearance. I'll mask the parts that need to stay white soon and give the under side a coat of grey. Keeping up Mark??? Wink [;)]

Nick - Have a read of this page. It'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about US interior colours during WW2.

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/01/stuff_eng_interior_colours_us.htm

-Daniel

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:13 AM

Thanks Folk's,

For the kind words on the P 40m, it is OOB in construction.

I have several other P 40's [of various brands and types], but another 76 Sqn RAAF P 40n is planned, but instead of the white tailplane it has a yellow lightning bolt across the rudder.

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wing_nut

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April 2005
From: Piscataway, NJ!

Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:39 PM

Rob-That should look very striking... can't wait to see it.

Steve- web site looks good... great to see all the great builds in one place at one time.

Is there an "official" end date fo rthis GB. I think I what to build another one. I keep thinking about the Cox .049 U-Control all pastic P-40 I had as a kid... flying in circles in the street... watching it hang from the power lines since your not supposed to do that in the street Sad [:(]

Marc

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arki30

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February 2004
From: Second City

Posted by arki30 on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:16 PM

Progress report: Fuselage, wings, elevators, quisanart, it's all together. However, I have joint gaps that rival the Marianas Trench Sad [:(]

. This is the second time I've built this AMtech P-40 and the first time around had some gap issues but nothing like this.

Oh well, break out the putty, acetone, cotton swabs and jump in. This is going to slow me down though.

On a general note, I jump around the group builds quite a bit just seeing what's happening and I have to say this is one of the better builds in terms of participation, quantity and quality of posted work. Very cool.

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Mark Joyce

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From: Placerville, CA USA

Posted by Mark Joyce on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:57 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by pingtang

Got my white sprayed last night. Looks alright with a drop of grey added to give it a better scale appearance. I'll mask the parts that need to stay white soon and give the under side a coat of grey. Keeping up Mark???

Yes, sprayed my white yesterday Wink [;)]

. First time I've used Floquil Reefer White, and it definitely lived up to its reputation in regards to excellent coverage. Too good, in fact, and I think I lost my preshading. I might add a drop of grey like you did Daniel, and mist it on in spots. I still plan on a wash and some pastels at the end of the build to weather it more.

I'll be masking the white and spraying the Neutral Grey this weekend (hopefully!), then the OD the following weekend. I usually do major painting on the weekends because of work, etc.

Mark

Ignorance is bliss

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pingtang

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April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:26 AM

I'm one step ahead of you then Mark. I masked off the white yesterday and sprayed the neutral grey on the bottom. I'll mask it off soon and spray some foliage green on the fuselage sides then mask it off and spray some olive drab. I might do a bit of post-shading and then the decals.

-Daniel

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