hey guys , my first dapple in Aircraft for a while, now i bought this kit thinking, oh wow , a Revell 2008 release.



oh how i was wrong.
it appears to be an old matchbox kit, reboxed, and re reissued by revell, in my opinion. the Transfers Wreck the kit for detail and quality,

i have never scribed panel lines, and dont really ahve the appropriate tools, but i had to do something to this, this ... this TOY!!!







So i have scribed around 1/3 so far, using a plan i found as a rough guide. thankfully the plastic is easy to work with.
the most sickening thing i ahve seen is the flap for the trailing edge, compared with pictures it looked nothing like it should, so i filled it in, (more scribing later) the paint scheme and interior detailing is all fantasy so far, the chairs inside are Gross, so i ahve to modify those, (if i was a plastic 1/72 pilot, i'd much rather sit in the chair I constructed)






a question. what woudl be a good polishing sandpaper, to make it look like plastic again?

Wet and dry sandpaper grain #400, then 600 and finaly grain 1200. That should do the job and provide You with a silky surface, ready for paint.

Hi James,

..keep us updated with your progress ..got this sitting on the bench waiting for the new Airfix Hawk to progress off it...

Hi James,

too bad that it lacks such an obvious detail. You did a nice job adding it. Your instrumentpanel looks very nice.



Jelger

Hey guys, Very little progress has been made, and i have filled in a mistake
( too many vertical panel lines) some of them are actually supposed to be rivet lines. so they have been filled. progress is slow ,its sort of my " long term " build lol.

Hello James, this is interesting.It's the first good look I've had at this kit, although I've considered getting one at times. Sure it's pretty simple, but it'll most likely go together pretty easily, and actually you're pretty lucky that Lesney's resident trench digger was remarkably restrained on the tooling for this one. Probably a good idea to fill those scribed panel lines and start again...I'd be inclined not to scribe at all except for doors, removable panels, cowlings and that sort of thing...but that's not to say that you shouldn't. The cockpit interior looks good...I hope the transparencies aren't coke bottle thickness! I'm sure they'll be okay though.

I'll look forward to seeing it take shape...and I'll get one for myself before it disappears off the market again, as seems to happen with some of these new releases by Revell.

All the best,

Tim.

hey TIM, the windows were replaces with packaging, as they were horrid, now i have lost the canopy
i have filled the rivet lines, and the normal lines are still there
thanks for dropping in!

*message to anyone knowlegeable on the p-40 and its lesser variants, please check out my thread in *ww2* and enlighten me with your wisdom*

one picture, sharpened a lot on photobucket!

here is my progress

way to go there mate,i bought one of these donkey`s years ago and ended up using it to practice on - you`re too kind calling it a toy !