After reading some articles about the P-40, I got the idea of building one myself. The P-40B kit from Airfix looked very interesting but it was unavailable at the time. However, I was able to find this kit from Hobby 2000, that is actually a re-boxing of the Hasegawa kit.
Building it was a pretty straightforward process, as it was done almost out-of-the-box. The only extra components I used was a set of PE seatbelts from Eduard, elastic rigging for the antenna wire from Uschi van der Rosten and home-made (0.2mm solder wire) hydraulic lines on the main undercarriage legs.
The fit was good, requiring only small amounts of putty around the wingroots. The paint scheme I chose was Bare-Metal-Finish and I used a couple of different shades of AK Real Metal (Aluminum and Dark Aluminum).
The work in progress
The finished model
Products Used
| Kit | Box | Scale | Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby 2000 Curtiss P-40N Warhawk Aces of the 49th Fighter Group |  | 1/48 | 48001 |
| Eduard P-40N seatbelts STEEL |  | 1/48 | FE1235 |
| Uschi van der Rosten UvdR-3 “Rig that thing” Elastic Rigging – Fine |  | n/a | 4006 |
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