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I guess this could technically class as my first Ready For Inspection! Over the past few months I've been working on creating skins for the P-400 in the video game War Thunder. It's been a long journey learning as much about the aircraft and its history as I have about digital texture creation and the skills required. I don't class myself as a professional at this but I do hope that you enjoy the result of many hours of work. The P-400 in War Thunder isn't the best in terms of being an accurate 3D model but it's all I have to work with. On opening the spoilers you will find a profile view, screenshot and link to download and read about each skin. Bell Airacobra Mk.I Bell P-400 Bell P-39D-1 Bell P-39D-2 I welcome all comments, advice, corrections, and hope you have enjoyed what you have seen! - Dan

Hey guys, this year was quite strange from the modelling point of view to me.. a lot of new things happened in my life (all for good i believe ) and the result was, i did not have that much time for modelling as before. Also i still do not have any showcase in my new home, so i guess the next step was just logical result of all what was said - this year i was building kits mainly as a gifts for friends or family members.. which mostly led to close deadlines, hurry up builds and such.. Well, the last for this year is finished. It was bulit as a christmas gift for my bro, who is (same like me) fan of the War Thunder game. I wanted to build one of his favourite planes (and i m sure i ll build more in future in this way, thats why it is just round1 ). But in the end, i had to change my mind a bit.. So the plan was to build exact copy of his ingame Spitfire Mk.XVIe. I found the kit for it (excellent Eduards kit in overtrees version), i found painting masks (Montex, great as usualy) and some more stuff between the spare parts ( PE instrument panel and seat belts,Quickboost doors). At first i started to work on the pit and i did build it based on the ingame cockpit screenshots. Most of the cockpit is OOB, some details were added here and there and i have used some self-adhesive "jewelery" on the gunsight, to imitate the glass "bubble" on top of it and i think it worked quite well Anyway, when i was taking close looks on the ingame model of Spitfire XVI, i have noticed the designers made their job a bit easier and took parts from older Spitfire marks.. So the wings top side in the game is mix of IXc, IXe, and late IXe, wings underside is taken even from I/IIa (with 4x 0,33 cal MG covers.... ), antena wire like on the early spits (from fuselage to tail tips) and so on.. at first i wanted to make all of these changes, but in the end i did not want to make such an ugly mix, so i decided to finish the build as XVI with marking based on the ingame Spitfire XVI Well, to finish the wall of the text, here is the result From the photos i have noticed i did not paint the wind shield framing from the back side, so i have fixed it later but did not take any shots after the fix. more to add yet