There's four great looking models on the previous page. All of them finished to a high standard and each one done in a different way. Well done Oliver, Chris, Sal and Robert Jan.

Simon.

A few update

Sal: Nice finish on Your Hawk! Congrats!

Simonn: Thank´s for watching. I am glad You like it!

Jose: Good progress! With this camo Your kit will turn out very nice!

Oliver

Hit the fear. Did my canopy, first time with the masking and airbrush. Very happy so far with the results. A two weeks coming to finish.



Kind regards,

Robert Jan

Some more pictures. The wood in the back I picked up at a night market near Bangkok. I've got 3 build coming up with the same theme. First focus is to fix the wing extensions and last details on the cockpit.




Two weeks is my goal, leaves some space for other building

@Oliver, thanks!!!!
@Jan, your model is fantastic!!! I love it!!!!

My first project for this campaign is a P-47D.

I've opted for the box JUGS IN ITALY from eduard and decals from Xtradecals ( X48115-Yanks with Roundels Part 4 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt in RAF/SEAC).

CBI-1 by RhinoSpit

First step: i've cleanend and primed the cockpit tube:
CBI-2 by RhinoSpit

My Jug to date:

Thank you Jose. It's been a long time I actually will be able to finish build. Moving to Asia had some aspects I did not for see at all. Thai don't have hobbies, except for eating
Next two weeks for finishing and touch ups.
Rest of all campaigners, nice builds so far I have seen.

Robert Jan A really crackin' build! Awesome chipping and weathering job. Now the canopy looks a bit too new.
Thomas

Beautiful job Robert Jan!

Michael

Thanks for the compliments, but it's still a work in progress.

Hi all,

many good things arpound there since the last day i came !

SpeedyJ: i really love what you've done to wear out yours !

Well, here are my progress on my P-40, it's close to end, some more pics will be avalaible soon (weathering near to be finished)









cheers
nico

Progress on my P-47D:

The wheels:

CBI-4

The propeller:
CBI-5

Base color for the cockpit:
CBI-3

Well I have kind of made a start on my Spitfire.
I am building both Eduard spitfires from the combo kit together as part of this and the ETO campaign, and have started a build log here.

My spitfire builds have begun







I will throw an occasional post in the campaign thread after this, updating progress, but my build thread will contain pretty much everything I do.

Spitfire Cockpit is completed and ready to install in fuselage.




Seen here with it's ETO campaign brother:

some great builds so far here. robert jan nice chipping job i would like to know how you did it.

my progress has been slow. in fact i was thinking of dropping out because i didn't like how the build was going. the old revell p-40 kit was/is giving me some trouble but i decided to pick it up again. i have made some progress
i swapped out the kit cockpit for a legend pit.i removed the molded in shoulder harness from the seat as you can see since the p-36 and early p-40's didn;t have them



i also boxed in the wheel wells and added some structure.
can anyone tell me what color paint should the wheel wells for this craft should be? interior green, zinc chromate yellow, or british interior grey green like i painted the cockpit? i need to paint them first before the camo.
also as you can see in the photos i have quite a gap at the wing root. i am going tofill it with some strip plastic and then i plan to use either mr dissolved putty or mr surfacer 500 to smooth it out. for those of you who use these what do you all use to clean up the excess? obviously lacquer thinner is no good since it will melt the plastic. i tried rubbing alcohol and nail polish remover with not much success.

thanks for any help- joe

forgot the wheel well photo

Hi all,

I've been watching from the sidelines since this campaign started and I must say that there are some nice builds here! It also seems that the Japanese are a little underrepresented. So I'm tossing my hat in the ring with Hasegawa's 1/48 KI-27. Planning to do one that spent some time in Malaya.

The kit is from the molds created by Mania and is quite a nice kit still. Hasegawa bought the molds and true to their form has made many reissues. I have a True Details cockpit set, but may hold off on using it for this one. Depends how the seat and instruments turn out. I also plan to use a Squadron canopy to open things up.



I plan to do it in field applied camouflage, and paint the insignia as well...



With a low parts count and some good research I'm pretty optimistic on the outcome!

Hello Fellow Modeler's

I will throw my hat into another air campaign ( this time I will be sure to upload the photos into the campaign folder!!! I fail to do that on the four campaign 😁 Lesson learned )
Well, for this one I will do a Japanese Nakajima Ki43I Hayabusa ( Oscar) flown by the ace Msgt Satoshi Ababuki the highest scoring Oscar polit!
This particular plane was also flown by Lt Shigeru Nakazaki.
Both pilots belonged to the 50th Sentai, 3rd Chutai , stationed i Toungoo Burma January 1943.
This aircraft was also named " Fubuki" ( snowstorm)

While looking for something for the ETO western front campaign I ran across this in one of my garage cabinets.
I did not even remember having this one.
So I am joining in with this doing it with Burma markings.

i didn't get a response so if i may i will repeat my request
first does anyone know what color should the AVG p-40b wheel wells should be? can't find any photos or documentation. also if any of you out there use mr dissolved putty or mr surfacer 500 to fill wing roots and seams what do you use to clean up the excess around the join with out damage to the plastic? i tried nailpolish remover and rubbing alcohol.

thanks- joe

Joe, try enamel/laquer thinner (while it is fresh) - but once the putty/surfacer dried hard normally it's impossible to remove with a solvent. For the wheel wells of a P-40 I'm not sure but should be the same color as the whole underside/-carriage.
Thomas

btw: nice work on that ancient kit, you are going to overcome the issues...

I'm officially calling this one done! I've put the finishing touches on her and she looks more or less like I envisioned. Here a few pics of her now to put some up in the gallery.