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A Pair of 1/72 Hawks


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Now I am getting the hang of Flickr, I thought I would upload some of my earlier models, built since returning to scale modelling 8 or so years ago. This was built from an Aldi Airfix Starter Kit.  I cut the canopy to open it up, I think it may sit a bit high.  The camo is from the little pots, but the azure blue was more like midnight, so I used some Humbrol Enamel.  It doesn't look quite so virulent in real life!

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This second plane is an Aleutian P-40e.  It's scratchbuilt from solid balsa, following WW2 US Navy recognition plans.  These plans were issued to schools to make ID models for military use and get students "air-minded".  It would fail the USN tests though as it should be made out of harder timber and painted satin black.  It was fun to build and all the markings were hand painted, basically to see if I could.

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I have a plastic kit for a plane in similar markings, which would obviously be more accurate, but would I enjoy building it as much?

 

Cheers

Will 

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