Curtiss Hawk H81, 2nd Pursuit Squadron, Burma 1942

[russ c]

Hi Everyone,

Here`s my attempt at making an AVG Hawk from every ones favourite P-40 kit

Finished to represent a Hawk H-81 of the 2nd Pursuit Squadron `The Panda Bears`, AVG, flown by Franklin Schwartz, Burma `42

I made a few improvements to the kit, the biggest being: replacing the cockpit with a resin one I had lying around from an Eduard P-40

Still used the kit instrument panel though, so it`s still not accurate but looks better IMHO and scratch built a replacement seat.

Other tweaks include; reduced the rudder chord, lengthened the tail wheel, lengthened the main gear...........

Added retraction links to the main gear, Replaced the wing guns with brass tube and sanded the protruding panels down a bit.

The Decals came from a Sky models set, which were great except I had to hand paint the teeth behind the spinner

Oh and the pitot came off a Hasegawa kit, otherwise just the usual brake pipes, aerials etc

Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking

Happy New Year, Cheers Russ

[Spitfire31]

Very neat and realistic looking build, with great detailing!

Brass tubing somehow always makes more convincing gun barrels that moulded plastic or resin, IMHO.

The 'chipping' on the wing root looks more like drybrushed silver paint than worn camouflage, to my eyes… ;-)

Apart from that, a magnificent model!

Kind regards,

Joachim

[tonyot]

Thats a real corker Russ,.......a fantastic rendition of an AVG Hawk and the painting is superb!

Cheers

Tony

[ancient mariner]

Good build and finish, have to agree with Spit31 re the wing roots,still better than my efforts.

[batcode]

Looks great Russ, very nice job on the scheme and finish.

[Knight_Flyer]

Very nice build and I like the slightly different scheme with the animals.

[Navy Bird]

Very nice indeed!

Cheers,

Bill

[PlaStix]

That's an excellent looking Hawk Russ. Very nicely done.

Kind regards,

Stix

Edited January 8, 2016 by PlaStix

[Val]

Very cool