WIP Hasegawa 1/32 P-40E (Yes, I really do build.)

[Littlemarten]

Not a bad kit, though there are some fit problems:


Some shots of the cockpit, enhanced with Quinta Studio 3D decals and some scratch-built cables on the gunsight and back of the control panel.











The gun sight and back of the main panel, which won't be very visible once the windscreen is attached, but at least it won't be empty space. Need to redo the gun sight lens.

 

[kevin]

That cockpit is looking pretty sharp!

 

[Littlemarten]

Thank you, Kevin!

 

[BarleyBop]

Geez, killing me with these cockpit interiors! Lucky if you get a speedometer with WW2 vehicles!
That looks fantastic!

 

[Littlemarten]

No dashboards?! Don't build many vehicles, just an occasional tank, where I wouldn't expect one. Thanks for the compliment!

 

[Deleted member 11187]

Wow.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Awesome cockpit detail.

 

[Littlemarten]

Wow.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Awesome cockpit detail.

Thank you!

 

[lacrosse dad]

Not a bad kit, though there are some fit problems:
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Some shots of the cockpit, enhanced with Quinta Studio 3D decals and some scratch-built cables on the gunsight and back of the control panel.

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The gun sight and back of the main panel, which won't be very visible once the windscreen is attached, but at least it won't be empty space. Need to redo the gun sight lens.View attachment 142296

Some of you are not human, some of you are magical model elves put here to make the rest of our models look like 2nd grade finger paintings. Amazing detail, fantastic work!!!!

 

[Littlemarten]

Thank you! A lot of that "amazing detail" is due to the La Quinta 3D decals, which, admittedly, are a lot of work to apply. If not for them, I'd still be working on the cockpit, scratch building as much detail as I can manage. As a retired microscopist, I tend to put in as much detail as I can. I've had the experience of putting in detail that is too small to be seen by the naked eye.

The painting and shading, however, is all mine.

 

[lacrosse dad]

Thank you! A lot of that "amazing detail" is due to the La Quinta 3D decals, which, admittedly, are a lot of work to apply. If not for them, I'd still be working on the cockpit, scratch building as much detail as I can manage. As a retired microscopist, I tend to put in as much detail as I can. I've had the experience of putting in detail that is too small to be seen by the naked eye.

The painting and shading, however, is all mine.

Exceptional regardless.....a modeler has arrived when an aircraft stops looking like a model and looks like actual photos of the aircraft or a tiny version of the real thing....you created that, well done!

 

[Littlemarten]

High praise, indeed—I just took a look at some of your work!

 

[stevethefish]

So what paint and paint color did you use for the cockpit interior?

 

[Edbert]

WTF?

That right there is awesome, don't care who you are or what horse you rode in on.

 

[Littlemarten]

So what paint and paint color did you use for the cockpit interior?

Vallejo 71.137 "US Light Green" also sometimes called "Curtiss Green," "Interior Green," and "Green Zinc Chromate." Supposedly a close match to FS34151 and ANA611. Since it was made by mixing a black pigment with Yellow Zinc Chromate, the actual applied color had considerable variation in use since the specification varied for most of WWII. So there is a lot of variation in shade between actual aircraft.

In this case there are a lot of washes applied over the base color. I wanted to fade it a bit on the upper surfaces that see the most sunlight, and darken it slightly lower down and on the "floor," which is actually one of the wing tanks. I want it to look "well used," as it is going to be Maj. Ed Rector's ship in China, 1942. I have a second kit which will be the one Tex Hill flew on the Salween Gorge raid.

I've been in love with the P-40 since I was 3, when my great uncle (a retired Curtiss engineer) gave me his manufacturer's cast model. It was one of my great treasures, and disappeared when I went away to college, or it would still have a place of honor on my shelf.

 

[stevethefish]

I have a bottle of Model Master Acryl Interior Green which I believe is that exact shade of green. I sure hope that bottle doesn't dry out on me because I like it quite a lot. Since I live in Japan, Mr. Hobby products are more easily obtained. The lacquer Mr. Color Cockpit Green is a considerably brighter shade of green, while their acrylic Mr. Hobby Aqueous equivalent is more like that Model Master green. Or it used to be, until their Aqueous line was reformulated a few years ago. I have a bottle of the old stuff, so I'll have that to fall back on once the Model Master runs out or dries up.

I really love the Flying Tigers and enjoy building P-40s above all WWII aircraft. By extension I also like the lesser-known CACW. I have a slew of Hasegawa P-40Ns (plus a Matchbox one) to do them up as CACW planes. I've also started doing a Matchbox P-38 to build it up as a CACW.

If you're into Republic of China Airforce, Bestfong decals in Taiwan makes plenty of nice ones. I bought the CACW decals for P-40Ns and my P-38. I think he might have Flying Tigers, but I'm not sure. His website is defunct, but I've been able to just reach out to him via email and buy directly. You can also find Bestfong decals on Blackbirdmodels.co.uk.

 

[BOATMAN]

OH YES THAT is fantastic detail in this cockpit very well done sir much better than i could do brilliant
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