Nice progress Neil !

I agree with D ...Mr surface is the best way to go on filling the gap .

I'm back in the P-40 saddle again. The body work is done and the primer is on. Next comes the shiny black paint...top, bottom, all around.





Hermon

And the colors are on! Hope she looks better with the decals. Right now it's looking like a gaudy circus flyer.




More to come.

Hermon

Wow Hermon, what a great looking P-40, glad to see you are building up your collection again. Russell

Hermon , now that is looking mighty fine Any fit issues with the kit so far ?

Your cockpit pit looks super any more pic's of this area ?

Thanks Russell. This one has some odd color combo's but it's a nice change from greens and greys.

Terri, the kit is Hobbycraft and so far it has been flawless. Not alot of great detail as with Tamiya or Hasegawa but worth the $16.00 I spent on her. I think the pic I posted of the cockpit are the only ones I have. I can try and get an up close one after the decals are on, which BTW they are almost done.

Hermon

Decals are on, and to be what I consider an inexpensive kit they were very nice decals. Still have A LOT of touch-ups to do but I'm getting closer.





Sorry about the flash. I'm seriously thinking of going with an overall coat of clear flat for the finished plane. This aircraft was based in North Africa so I'm sure it wouldn't have been shiny very long, even if it was the commanders bird.

Hermon

I really like it Hermon ! Excellent job so far Always nice when you have a kit which builds up nicely .

Hermon,
that is one cool looking paint job
Andy

That looks like a Reno racer more than an operational plane Hermon.
What a great scheme.

I got a little progress on Cobby's Camel.
Struts replaced with thinner strut stock. Unfortunately once
I rigged it the struts compressed a Cobby is well and truly stuck
in there. I'm not doing it a third, no make that a fourth time.
I'm getting brass strutz the next time I tackle these old revell
kits of which I have the SPAD, and the Fokker D7. But I'll
spare myself until I can make a better fist of them.

Oh and I got the wheels done. I just scored the sections with a
sharp knife and painted it freehand.
Was more effective than anything else I tried. In larger scales a mask would
be OK I just couldn't cut it up neatly enough.


Touch ups to do under the top wing and some more markings to add. But the worst is past me.

This is Academy P-47 in 1/72 scale.

Some progress pictures.

And finished.

Looking really good Jaypee ! Also like your solution for painting the checkers on the wheels .

Ayhan , excellent build and a qiuck one ! Nice effect with the per-shading and weathering .

Man you guy's are turning out some fantastic builds here , lot's of jugs - always great to have !

As for me I'm falling behide on my build .........

Ayhan, you didn't really hand mask those checks on the tail?

In 1/72??





(Thats me, just thinking about that!)

Wow! Is that even possible? I guess it is! Beautiful Ayhan.
When I grow up I want skills like that

Well I've been doing a little digging on the web for E7267. And it turns
out it had number codes on the underside. E7267 on each wing. Port wing
the tops of the codes face forward and stbd wing the codes face aft.
(unless the film is reversed!)
Neat huh? I may have to make some decals for this and do it in 1/48 some day
but for now it is a ruler and the trusty sharpie. Pics to follow. Or maybe

Just finished yesterday Hasegawa 1/48 F4/C Phantom 191st FIG Michigan ANG

One of the best schemes ever worn by the Phantom!

Awesome build Sean ! I really like the over all finish on this .

Thank you this was my first plane build for a while and this was what happened. This was an old Hasegawa kit with raised panel lines so came up with using a Draftmans pen to hi-lite these then with a Q-tip dragged it across while he ink was wet.I'll try and find another kit to do as I'm hooked again.

Glad to hear that you are hook again with aircraft Sean . What will your next project be ?


I have started the decaling on my build pic's to follow soon .....

How are the rest of you folks doing ?

Dinnae ask! I will surely need to redo the struts and rigging, after an accident. Was putting the toolbox away in the dark and put it on top of the Camel! Grrr. Well at least this way I'll need to respray the wings, so I'll do the underside code letters right this time.

This is the fourth attempt at the struts.

1. The kit struts, horrible revell trench method, abandoned
2. Contrail struts. Good but picked an overscale size.
3. Contrail again. Right size but always felt a bit flimsy (esp when tool box set on top)
4. Hmmmm. I think I'll try cocktail sticks. I've sanded them into a rough aerofoil shape.
Look OK but I'll see how they take paint first as they are supposed to be white for this profile.

Fourth time lucky I hope. Looking forward to doing it right

Better to learn this on a £3 revell kit than something expensive takes the pressure off a bit.
Luckily I also have roundel left over from the se5a kit and some Almark ones too. I'll see which fits best.

I took the opportunity to break off the wings and set the dihedral correctly too.

So kinda glad it broke, perhaps some kind of Freudian slip.

"A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing but say your mother" lol

Wow Jaypee that is a bummer . 4 times ....been there myself . Have you tried using chop-sticks , bamboo ones ? The spilt very easy and sand nicely and the grain is excellent for 72 - 48 scale and very strong .

I guess I should show some up date pics hey !

Here is where I'm at at the moment . I didn't notice until today that on the nose checkes part of the white for the decals is missing , I did check the instruntions and no note saying that a band has to be painted . Same with the wing tip checkers so I mask off and sprayed some white . Tomorrow I can finish off with the decals and continue with the detail painting .