Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IV (P-40N), `Gloria Lyons`, 18 Squadron, RNZAF, Solomon Islands

[russ c]

Hi Everyone, thought you wouldn`t mind if I troubled you with some photo`s of the latest from the kitchen table

Another of Hobby2000`s reissue of Hasegawa`s 1/48 scale P-40N kit 

Also my second attempt at this particular airframe ( the first was Eduards Mauve reissue a long time ago )

 

Built as usual from the box contents, with some foil seat belts, wire brake pipes and aerials

Drilled out the filter covers just after the propeller.....

....also replaced the kit wheels with come True Details resin items which I`d had hanging around for years waiting for a suitable candidate

The decals came from a Ventura set and went on beautifully, the only problems being the white on the national markings were to transparent and the white strips showed through.......

......which I solved by cutting patches of white decal and applying over the top of the affected areas and the blue was very lurid requiring knocking back with some light grey weathering. 

Think I`ve probably bored you enough, hope you enjoy the pic`s

Cheers Russ

 

 

[fox1_BE]

Great job there, Russ - really like these markings 👍

[Fred piket]

Russ, this section is not intended for walkarounds of the real object😁

 

Beautiful diorama, fantastic build!

[MACALAIN]

Well done, nice.

 

Alain

[Nanond]

Superbly done and photographed!

[Toryu]

Inspiring subject Russ! It looks great there posed on the Marston mats.

[kelly9mm]

And they say that kiwis don't fly . Great job Russ!

 

Cheers,

Marcin

[bigbadbadge]

Ooooooo nice, looking great Russ, great work.

Chris

[georgeusa]

So well done.   Great build and great finish of this P-40.  My hats off to you.  Thanks for sharing.

[Karearea]

Beautiful work! This is to me the quintessential Kiwi P-40, and you’ve made a marvellous recreation of it.

[112 Squadron]

Excellent work Russ!👍 This RNZAF Kittyhawk is looking superb.

[Mycapt65]

I love those markings. Nice job as usual Russ.

[Zigomar]

Good to see a flying Kiwi some times! Excellent Russ! As usual.

[kapam]

Wow!  Looks great!

Your work is always outstanding.  👏👏👏

 

[woody37]

Another cracker Russ great photo's too. Funny enough, I was looking at one in my stash over the weekend as a possible future build and this is just the motivation to stop looking and take action!

[russ c]

15 hours ago, woody37 said:

Another cracker Russ great photo's too. Funny enough, I was looking at one in my stash over the weekend as a possible future build and this is just the motivation to stop looking and take action!

Cheers Woody, glad to have been some help too🙂

[Rod bettencourt]

That's a cool kitchen table Russ!😉

 

 

Rod

[Dunny]

Lovely work Russ, and a good save on the decals!

 

Cheers,

 

Roger

[VG 33]

Hello

 

This is so nice. 

 

Cheers.

 

Patrick