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John Bell made some stick and tissue kits years ago, his plans are available to be downloaded free. He has two different P-40 plans, the models can be made out of balsa as designed, but you could also use the plans for building out of plastic or foam and resize the plans to any scale you would like.
Those decals look awesome, even more fearsome than the shark mouth. Were they that white on the real ships are you going to tone them down slightly with some pastel chalk or something?
I had to give up on enamels and lacquers, mostly only use acrylics now, once in a blue moon some water colors or gouache for something. I was using some oil paints for some weathering with some of the odorless thinner, I even had to give that up as I would start getting a weird feeling all through my body and then start getting sick after just a little while, even with the window open and good ventilation.
That looks awesome! The weathering on it is so good, realistically subtle, seems like so many people nowadays way overdo it. I really need to get going on mine sometime, I've had the cockpit parts laid out to paint for quite a while, haven't made it there yet. Mostly been working on some balsa planes, a Guillow's Cherokee 140 and their 18 inch Camel, completely infilling the Cherokee to paint up as the plane my dad was part owner of when I was a kid. Also scratch building an unlimited hydroplane in 1/32 scale. Really need to pull that paint stand to the front of my desk
Thanks for the kind comments on the weathering. It seems like you have your hands full with your other projects, so it's easy to understand the lack of progress on your P-40!
It appears that the link to the old forum no longer works. Since I can't remember what if any builds I posted back then, and seeing that I've taken new photos of all my old builds while cleaning out the display case, I guess I can take the opportunity to post some of those older models here.
I've mostly given up plastic models for a while, but I have two of the AMTech P-40's well along, I've had the cockpit parts stuck on a Tamiya turntable for painting for a while. Things haven't been going the greatest with the boat & Camel other than applying and sanding sanding sealer on the boat for what seems like forever. May have to paint up the cockpit parts for a bit of a break.
Plastic cements and solvents like in Bondo have really been bothering me for quite a while, health issues have only made it worse. For a while up and making my own filler out of Future and baby powder, sometimes I will add a couple drops of acrylic paint. Works great on plastic and wood, Sands as easy as Bondo and doesn't seem to be as soft as Bondo.
We are losing the WWII vets at an astounding rate, even the Vietnam vets are really getting up there in age.
Beside seeing the John Wayne movie, the first time I remember reading about the Flying Tigers was in Boyington's book, I was captivated and got a lot of books and magazines on them over the years. That also cemented my love for the P-40.
That looks awesome! The weathering on it is so good, realistically subtle, seems like so many people nowadays way overdo it. I really need to get going on mine sometime, I've had the cockpit parts laid out to paint for quite a while, haven't made it there yet. Mostly been working on some balsa planes, a Guillow's Cherokee 140 and their 18 inch Camel, completely infilling the Cherokee to paint up as the plane my dad was part owner of when I was a kid. Also scratch building an unlimited hydroplane in 1/32 scale. Really need to pull that paint stand to the front of my desk
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