RMCS Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 With RAF Tangmere just down the road from me and my local model club displaying on the Museums 'Bader Down Day' this August I thought that this model would certainly fit in as Neville Duke has such a history with RAF Tangmere when he broke the sound barrier in his Hawker Hunter. The Hasegawa kit is sublime, fitting extremely well with good detail for such a kit. Adding Eduards interior PE set rises the game to a new level. The only other extra that I did was to drill out the exhaust stacks and guns to add some depth. The build went smoothly and having lots of photos of the AF Air-wing in 1942 it was obvious that these P40s were heavily used and in by no means a pristine condition, so I set out to add a level of weathering through pre and post shading, Tamiya powders and a wash to get the right effect. As the build went on it became obvious that this bird needed to be shown its proper environment; the desert, so I found a resin RAF desert pilot and using a set of plastic from my local hobby store and other bits and pieces that I had lying around I built up a small diorama presenting Neville Duke with his aircraft. Painting was done using Vallejo Air paints, which I love to use, the pattern was free hand as the middle stone was added in theater and was not neat (Dukes aircraft had clear over-spray on the side fuselage roundels). Photographing this build was difficult for some reason. I don't have the best set up and usually use my phone camera as its as good as I have. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith in the uk Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 oh now that's really nice the weathering looks spot on. If I was to be picky I would say the aerial wires are a little bit on the thick side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Modeller Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Top work Richard, that's a cracking Kittyhawk!! I'm not a fan of heavily weathered models normally, especially when they are just to be displayed 'stand alone' fashion in a display cabinet, as I feel it just looks plain wrong .... but when the model is to be part of a diorama, where a story is to be told, as with your model here, then that is a different story but even then it still has to be done sympathetically towards the scene to look right in my view? In your case it is perfectly done and I like it very much, it really looks like it's spent many days under the hot Libyan sun and had some very hard use in desert warfare - perfect!! Very well done Richard!! :tasty: Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Lovely rich caramelised paintwork. You can almost feel that desert sun beating down on the airframe. Nice work, Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 looks great, nice work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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