Jb65rams Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I'm in with this. One of the first kits I bought when I got back into modelling about 8 years ago. It's got close to the top of build pile a few times, but finally it's time has come. Eduards 1/48 P-40N A reboxing of the Mauve Kit with added extras. Includes resin details, etch and a display base. In box photos to follow nearer the start of the GB. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thueser Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Eduards kits are always a good choice. Arguably a interesting build to come... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 So whats in the box. A nice selection of resin and PE. The spares box will do well out of this. Not a lot of progress to report beyond tiding up the resin bits. Spent a bit of time studying the options and have decided to finish it as a P-40N flown by Lt.Col William N Reed of the 7th Fighter Squadron 3 Fighter Group (1944). Which I believe was part of the Chinese American Composite Wing. Decision purely taken on aesthetics, i think it had the best looking shark mouth design of the options available and a blue and white striped tail to break up the olive drab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Good choice who's olive drab are you going to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Good choice who's olive drab are you going to use? There is a can of worms. Not decided yet, but have the life color olive drab set. I thinking of trying to achieve a faded worn look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I've just used tamiya and its far too dark so now its back to gunze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Update of the last couple of weekends work. Resin cockpit insert added and painted. This next photos shows were things started going wrong. Somehow I ended up with representations of the grand canyon at the wing join. Look closely you will also notice that I forgot to add the instrument panel when I closed everything up, think I was too focused on getting the resin floor to fit correctly. Finally I managed to break off a couple of the gun barrels. Got the day off, so once I have watched the Patriots - Colts game I am going to try to fill the gaps. Just waiting for a call from Ready Mix!. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Ooooh that's a gap! would it help fixing the top half of the wings first to the fuselage then gluing the bottom half after? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Ooooh that's a gap! would it help fixing the top half of the wings first to the fuselage then gluing the bottom half after? Unfortunately I had already glued the top and bottom of the wings together, plus the gap was that big I not sure it would have help. Gap was filled using a mixture of scrap bits of plastic card and plastic putty. This was followed by a quick trip to the paint booth for some primer. A big improvement, Just need to spend a bit of time tidy up and re scribe a few panel lines that got obliterated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caszerino Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) All your image links are broken now, mate. Just wanted to point that out because I'd really like to see this one! **EDIT: Looks like it's PhotoBucket that's broken at the moment, as the same issue is occurring across a lot of threads. Sorry! Edited January 26, 2015 by caszerino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice work mate like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caszerino Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Now that PB is back up, it looks like it could still turn out great. I'm hoping I don't have wing root gaps like that anytime soon! And forgetting to install the IP is exactly something I would do. I get too focused on something, and screw up something else. So you have got my sympathies there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Haven't posted for a while but progress has continue, although at a snails pace. Got some paint on it now, and it looks a lot better. Tried to put some warn areas on it by spraying the OD over some aluminium, with micro mask dotted on to represent the warn areas. The result wasn't quite as subtle as I was aiming for, think I might have left the mask on for to long as when I tried to remove it, more of the OD came up that I was hoping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Nice work welcome back lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 Nice work welcome back lol Thanks. Having failed to finish my last two GBs I am determined to finish this one. Bit more progress to report, Started with the decals, beginning to look the part. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Looking good that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caszerino Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Wow! From horror story to Cinderella story! It looks fantastic now! I've completely stalled out on my P-40B, unfortunately, to the point that I'm actually doing another non-GB build to try to get myself remotivated. Yours is definitely inspiring me a bit to get mine finished for this GB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 gonna have to try to get me one of those.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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