hi all , well its been a long time coming mainly due to the freezing weather weve had keeping me out of the shed, but here is the 1/72 academy p40e. I first saw this scheme when a thread was posted by ron cole ,who is an aviation artist, challenging anyone to make a model of this particular aircraft . Always one who likes a challenge, i decided to have a crack ,so here it is. The kit was a dream -fantastic fit and detail and great value too ,in this scale the academy kits take some beating. The most difficult bit was hand painting the orange and sharks mouth (in fact if you look closely you can still see the pencil lines under the red paint , oops!)but i dont think it turned out too bad.Decals came from the spares box.I didnt add the prominent aerial wires (from tail to each wingtip) or the ring and bead external gunsight because the photos of the actual aircraft show these arent fitted. Anyway have a look and any comments welcome , cheers tony:plane: edit. PS forgot to say , see also thread "someone must build this colourful p40e"
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