1/48 AMT P-40F

[speedgraflex]

Hello! I am just gonna add this here. Feel free to pull it. I was researching the kit and it was nice to see another good review / write up as well as learn about Magic Sculpt!

http://www.ecpmod.com/Articles/article33.html

[Stikpusher]

Yeah, his build is pretty similar to mine so far. Aside from the paint scheme, and his use of an Eduard seat harness. It builds up about the same as the K that I built many years ago. I’ll address the upper wing root gap by adding the lower surface first, then I’ll add the upper wings to get the best mating surface that I can. Test fitting shows that should work.

[speedgraflex]

Similar yes, but also the differences as you pointed out. Yours and his are great approaches to building a great kit! One of the unsung gems is here, methinks. I am also Spidey sensing that Airfix 109 from last year you built that was an award winner.

[Stikpusher]

Well hopefully this one will do well enough to place so I can sit them side by side in my ‘winners case’. They are both Summer of ‘42 in Egypt and potentially met there. It’s quite natural.

[speedgraflex]

Well hopefully this one will do well enough to place so I can sit them side by side in my ‘winners case’. They are both Summer of ‘42 in Egypt and potentially met there. It’s quite natural.

[Stikpusher]

Actually more like this, in “Desert (Tittie) Pink”



and this painting is at the end of the North Africa Campaign during the “Palm Sunday Massacre” of April 1943...

[speedgraflex]

That is an amazing image/scheme/moment defined... and this one is cool.

[Stikpusher]

Bruce, I had a long well thought out reply for my reasonings to choice of subject. But that will have to wait a bit, because, as usual, my time for such is limited. Perhaps this afternoon...

I just have this bit of progress that I’ve made- the seat harness is mostly painted, and Promodeler instrument decals added to the IP. I made my best shot at replicating the actual instrument positioning by type to the decals that I had.

[Stikpusher]

IP after a dose of Solvaset...



now I just need to put some drops of Future over each one as a lens and it’ll be ready for installation...

[Stikpusher]

So I decided to fix up the gun sight a bit... I can’t stand a solid sheet there where it is supposed to be glass... so I opened up the solid sheet to represent framing...



Then I painted it up and once that dried I added a drop of clear to represent the projector lens, and some clear sheet for the lens... once that dried a quick dose of Future to make it look shiny....



and of course, some Future on each instrument as a lens glass



And some dry brushing on the cockpit sidewalls, floor, and seat, along with some wash in the seat itself to help the belts stand out a bit more....





almost ready for installation....