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Hi there, I'm currently in the process of building a Kiwi Kitty III (P-40M) from the well known Hasegawa's kit in 1/48. There are two building options in this box, the first for an NZ Kitty III, Geoff Fisken's own "Wairarapa Wildcat", a P-40M which is option one, and a SAAF Kitty III, a P-40K, for option two. During the building process, Hasegawa propose some mods,, all related to option 1, the NZ Kitty. First one is to open a small hole down on the side of the cockpit, and fill it with a round part of clear plastic. Found nothing in my documentation about this, and don't know what it is, but I suspect a window to check gear up/gear down? But whatever, at the end of the instruction sheet, the NZ Kitty doesn't show any modification in the profile, but the SAAF Kitty have it! I've checked many pictures, espcially of Gloria Lyons, but this small window doesn't exist. So the question is: What is this? And am I right to think it doesn't belong to the NZ Kitty? Another mods concern the wingtip position lights shown below. Same situation, didn't see this on pictures of NZ Kitty, so, same last question. Thanks for reading me! -
Bonjour à tous ! I keep telling myself since quite some time that I should try to really come back to BM and again post some build reports, if only to exercise my english. And this is the opportunity : The book I’m reading now is Air-to-Air by Chris Rudge, the subject being A2A combat claims by Kiwi pilots during WW2. No surprise at some point in the book appear a guy called Geoff Fisken. I’ve first heard about him in the early nineties when I was reading the Bloody Shambles trilogy, from Chris Shores and his team. Well, I won’t say much now, as I’ll tell the whole story once the build is finished in a thread on RFI room. And to make a long story short, I’ve in my stash the following Hasegawa kit in 1/48 (it does exist also in 1/32), and I’m going to build Fisken’s Wairarapa Wildcat, aka NZ3072. First impression when opening the box is a very good one, and I’m going straight to the cockpit’s parts, so that I’ll be able to close the 1/2 fuselage as soon as possible. I don’t have that much documentation on the P-40, so I called a friend with a very good knowledge of WW2 aircraft colours, and in a few minutes, I had everything. Thanks Michel ! So here’s the pit. Overall colour is what I would like to be Curtiss cockpit green, but still a bit too much zinchromate green, I’m afraid…. I choose dark dull green for the armour plate, and exercised my artistic licence for the headrest ! The box offer no less than three different instrument panels, with two kind of decals each (black with instruments, or clear with instruments). As usual, I quickly destroyed both, and then add to go for another solution, that is painting everything ! See you next time!!!
