BigginHill

This is my first post-war build, the Phantom has always been a favourite of mine and when i had the chance to acquire the Tamiya kit at a good price i could not resist. By Tamiya's very high standards i found some of the structural fitment relatively poor; nothing that cannot be cured by filling, sanding and some scribing, but certainly not as good as some of their more recent products in 1/32 scale. Markings are from the kit, paint is Tamiya acrylic, wheels are resin after-market (kit wheels are rubber).

Fabulous!

If it helps, i took these photos of the plane at Goodwood (Westhampnett) in 2012

1/72? Are you sure! Lovely execution of the paintwork, really nice model, congrats

FABulous!

Wonderful model!

Thanks Greg, i used Tamiya XF62 Olive Drab mixed with some XF-4 Yellow Green regards Gavin

Here is the Eduard Kittyhawk IV (P-40N-20) NZ3220, No.18 Squadron RNZAF, Bourgainville, 1944. The model is pretty much out of the box, Eduard added some nice photo-etch and resin detailing to the original kit (i cannot recall who made the original mouldings). The only thing i changed was to use home-made masks for the insignia and white identification stripes. This is quite an expensive kit (mine was a Birthday present!), but i think the quality of the kit, the instructions, choice of markings and different variants you can build justify the cost.

Really effective painting & weathering, the cowl/cockpit and inner wing surfaces are especially nice - like the method for the spinner, might have to dig out my drill!

Really clean-looking build and finish, looks great!

Very nicely weathered, subtle and effective

One word, fabulous!

Great job with the colour scheme, excellent execution

Nice outcome, i enjoy looking at some of the rarer subjects that crop up from time to time, you're braver than me!

Liking that, definitely on my wish list, thanks for sharing