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Hey! Thanks, Joe!

I've got some primer on it now. Big day for painting tomorrow I think.  :)

Cockpit looks great Mike! You guys always inspire me to try some real scratch building on my builds!

Looking pretty good so far! =]

Beautifully added detail.  Let's see her painted up!

Here is the office all dolled up in paint;








I spent most of the time painting the stupid dials. I had to keep going over them till I got good results and I think they are now satisfactory.

I just have to work on the exhaust manifolds so I can close up the fuselage. :)

OK, I'm keepin' an eye on you lol, this is really looking cool! 

Max

Thank you, Max.  :)

I've worked the exhaust stacks over with the glue-stippling method to compensate for their poor molding. It gives them a rusty texture that hides the flaws that the age of this kit has produced.

Simply stated, the method requires some LC to soften the surface of the plastic and then you stipple it with a stiff brush to get the desired effect.

Can't wait to see what the mind of M. Brindos brings next!

Toshi

Will the pilot have a mustache?

Max  

Mike - 

Such awesome detail and scratch building. The office is perfect...beautiful detail and realism. Will be watching this build until the end. Great Job Mike!! 

Just wait, Toshi, it'll get better I think.

No. No pilot, so no mustache lol!

Thank you, Hunter!

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Confession time, lol.

I've been working on a decompression build instead of this one. 

It's to be revealed much later. So back on topic!  :D

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I glued the fuse halves together and stuck the nose on. I removed the location pins and lined it up manually, as I got a better fit that way. 

I've begun scribing panel lines on the nose. This is tricky because they are so long and they waver a bit because of it. I'm doing the best I can! Lol

Once I finish sorting out the nose I'm going to glue on the front windscreen and blend that in. With that out of the way I'll work on the wings. I've found that glueing the lower wings on first allows you to add the upper wing panels afterwards, easily aligning them before you glue.

This old kit has it quirks, but they are so well known that finding easy fixes for them is not difficult.

I also removed the nose gun fairings. They are so rounded out over time that they need to be completely rebuilt. It also makes it far easier to level out the nose between the gun fairings and the carb inlet.

Such nice work here. You really make me want to get back on my kit.

BK

It would make me quite happy if I inspired you to finish your Revell P-40B! I'd very much like to see that happen.  :)

It turned out pretty good from a mix of references and imagination, eh? Lol

Super scratch work Mike.

Chris

Thanks, Bob! Its super fun! :D

ManCityFan

You just can't make it easy on yourself, can ya? 

Appearently not. LOL

Thank you, Chris! I enjoy that part and this kit offers lots of areas to do some scratch building.  :)

This is an excellent build, Mike!  Yeah, this kit is one of my favorites, ever since I built one as a kid (around 1974 or so).  I love your detailing, especially making the canopy functional!

Regarding the texturing technique, anyone interested could also use Mr Surfacer, or Squadron putty and a little bit of acetone.  I've learned about the technique, in building Maschinen Krieger subjects.  It's popular with those to give large parts a cast metal texture.

I have a couple of these started, in my stash, and they've been languishing for years.  This makes me think I should move them up in the queue and finish them.

I look forward to your next update!

Best regards,

Brad

Thank you, Baron! I think the functional canopy is just slick, myself lol. I haven't seen that done before.

I know about using Mr. Surfacer, but I don't have any. I seem to specialize in using things most young beginner's could find locally. Not that I do it on purpose, but that seems to be how its worked out lol.

If you have a few of these I would truly like to see you finish one and show it off around here. You can never have enough finished Monovell P-40's around lol!

I hope you have a great day, and happy modeling!  :D

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I've made some decent progress today so far. I cut some strips of sheet styrene to fill the wing root gaps, added some of the spar detail inside the gear bay, added some sheet around the gear strut positions, plugged the iron sight holes, finished shaping the ejection port holes, and now I must wait for all of those pieces to cure up so I can sand them down. 

Not a bad days work, all in all. Still much to do, but this takes me farther along in the process.

Yes Sir! Sheet styrene and stretched sprue. It's what's for dinner. LMAO!!

Well, honestly, not everything, but I'd like to think I could give it a good try, lol!

Certainly plastic is the easiest medium I can bend to my will, but wood and metal aren't foreign to me either. I've even machined my own custom lightsaber hilt. ;)

After a quick shot of black primer I realized that some sections of my scribing was not going to be acceptable for this project. I think I need to find some Dymo tape in the near future.

I have to figure out how to make these lines more straight. These were terrible! Masking tape will give you a good guide line, but it doesn't prevent you from veering off course.  

I filled in sections of the skewed panel lines with stretched sprue. That way I can rescribe without worry of deviating from my trajectory again.

Hey Mike, This is really fun to watch your determination on the very kit that I almost threw away, lol. Good work, you always amaze me with your making of silk purses from sow's ears!  

Max

Great work Mike ! Like the drill out trick on the stacks, thanks !

Dash from Canada

Hodakamax

Hey Mike, This is really fun to watch your determination on the very kit that I almost threw away, lol. Good work, you always amaze me with your making of silk purses from sow's ears!  

Max

 

Thank you, Max. Did you finish yours? I don't recall.

It remains to be seen if how much of any "purse" I make this into lol!

Dash8

Great work Mike ! Like the drill out trick on the stacks, thanks !

Dash from Canada

 

You're welcome, Dash. May that trick serve you well!  :)

M. Brindos

 

 

Hodakamax

Hey Mike, This is really fun to watch your determination on the very kit that I almost threw away, lol. Good work, you always amaze me with your making of silk purses from sow's ears!  

Max

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Max. Did you finish yours? I don't recall.

It remains to be seen if how much of any "purse" I make this into lol!

 

Yes, it's finished, nothing special, OOB for the Museum. It does look good on the flight line. I did put a moustache on the little guy after your coaching on making him more realistic. He looks dashing, I think is the word. lol!

Max