In-progress Pics Of My P-40

[matrixone]

Thank you Ian!

This has not been a ''fall together'' type of kit like most other Monogram kits and I had hoped to be close to being finished with it by now, but at least its been a joy to paint...to me thats the fun part of building models.

Matrixone

[Eddie M.]

It's looking better everyday! B) Say, have you ever do a DC-3 in German para colors? I've got a DC-3 right here..........
  Eddie  

[BlackOps]

You know I look forward to the weekends because I know that's when Matrixone posts his pics

[matrixone]

Thank you Eddie and Jeff G,

This model with its single uppersurface color is very good weathering practice and what I learn with this model I will use on some of the WWII Japanese kits in my stash...there is a Ki 100 that I have been wanting to build for some time now but keep putting it off because I did not have experience with effective weathering of a/c with a single uppersurface camouflage color.

Matrixone

[rafi]

Nice work Matrixone.  

Rafi

[matrixone]

Thanks Rafi!

The best is yet to come for this model.

Matrixone  

[HOG]

Excellence as always. God you must have an awful amount of patience to work to these standards.

[matrixone]

Thanks very much HOG!

I had to stop working on my models for a couple weeks but am back now, I will post another in-progress pic sometime this weekend.

Matrixone

[matrixone]

Here are a few more in-progress pics taken earlier today...








The landing gear, wheels, flaps, and propeller are all painted and ready for installation, my next pictures of this model might be of the finished model.


Matrixone

[Eddie M.]

If you could see the big smile on my face. That looks great! I'm really looking forward to the rollout! B)  :salute:
  Eddie  

[elmayerle]

Gorgeous, Matrix.  Didn't the Japanese put at least one captured P-40, ISTR it was a P-30D or P-40E, in full Japanese markings?  'Twould be an interesting companion piece to this one.

[nev]

No kidding, that looks real  

And its not even finished yet!!  :dum:  

[Brian da Basher]

Holy cow, Matrixone! This one's soooo doggone cool it oughtta be illegal! It's scary how "right" Luftwaffe markings look on a P-40! Your weathering, espcially the work on the exhausts, is on a level I can on dream of! I'm just bowled over!

Brian da Basher

P.S. Painting out the U.S. markings with that "RLM-something" green is a sheer masterstroke!

[matrixone]

Thanks Eddie, elmayerle, nev, and Brian!

elmayerle,
Yes the Japanese captured one or two P-40s during the war and after the war one was found at a Japanese airbase and re-captured!
There is a nice picture of one in the book ''Meatballs and Dead Birds'' page 45.

Matrixone

[matrixone]

Two more in-progress pics of the P-40, these should be the last pics of the unfinished model and by early next weekend it should finished, all I need to do is finish the weathering, add the main wheels, flat coat it and glue on the canopy.





Matrixone