1/32 Hasegawa P-40E Warhawk "Old Exterminator" FINISHED !

[Tolga ULGUR]

This will be built in the markings of "Old Exterminator" with old style red dot roundels  

This time I have started from the fuselage halves.

 

 

Edited August 14, 2017 by Tolga ULGUR

[Out2gtcha]

Good start on a good little kit.   Looking forward to more. 

[KUROK]

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Looking forward to ridin' along!

[Tolga ULGUR]

  On 6/20/2017 at 12:38 PM, Out2gtcha said:

Good start on a good little kit.   Looking forward to more. 

 

 

  On 6/20/2017 at 1:12 PM, KUROK said:

I'm subscribed for updates. 

 

Looking forward to ridin' along!

Thank you..

[Tolga ULGUR]

A few progress in fuselage parts

[Tolga ULGUR]

  On 6/21/2017 at 12:20 PM, tjtx said:

Great start. I did the same build order of attaching the tail first and it really seemed to help the build. I look forward to watching this!

Thanks

 

This is my second Hasegawa s 1/32 P-40 and I recommend all to install firstly tail section to the fuselage halves for a good result.

 

You can see my first P-40 RAF Kittyhawk “London Prideâ€

 

 https://www.largescaleplanes.com/articles/article.php?aid=1882

[Tolga ULGUR]

Cockpit components painted and weathered

 

[Tolga ULGUR]

[Tolga ULGUR]

Instrument panel modified by Eduard PE set.

 

[AdamR]

  On 6/22/2017 at 2:17 PM, Tolga ULGUR said:

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Nice work!

 

As it happens, I'm building my second Hasegawa P-40 right now, too.

You are absolutely right about installing the tail sections to the fuselage halves first.

[LSP_Ron]

FYI,  the forward windscreen has a frame that doesn't belong there.  The front left and right glass are one piece not two. Hasegawa messed that up.  The angled frame running through them can easily be sanded off and polished out with toothpaste.

 

[Tolga ULGUR]

  On 6/27/2017 at 10:44 PM, AdamR said:

Nice work!

 

As it happens, I'm building my second Hasegawa P-40 right now, too.

You are absolutely right about installing the tail sections to the fuselage halves first.

Thanks.. Nice coincidence..

[Tolga ULGUR]

  On 6/27/2017 at 11:14 PM, LSP_Ron said:

FYI,  the forward windscreen has a frame that doesn't belong there.  The front left and right glass are one piece not two. Hasegawa messed that up.  The angled frame running through them can easily be sanded off and polished out with toothpaste.

 

Thanks for the advice Ron

Hasegawa had fixed this piece in the following years

The model on hand should be from the next production line.No problem on the windscreen. It s one piece. 

[KUROK]

AdamR,

As mentioned, that bit of canopy bracing (only on the left-front windscreen) is only present on some of the P-40N late models and maybe some P-40Ms.

Yours is a P-40E and that bracing should not be there. Hope we caught it in time before you painted!

Edited June 28, 2017 by KUROK

[AdamR]

  On 6/28/2017 at 4:11 PM, KUROK said:

AdamR,

As mentioned, that bit of canopy bracing (only on the left-front windscreen) is only present on some of the P-40N late models and maybe some P-40Ms.

Yours is a P-40E and that bracing should not be there. Hope we caught it in time before you painted!

Before I painted, but not before the masking is on! Oh, well, I'll mask that bit off and polish the frame out after the masks come off.

 

How odd that only the left side was made that way! I wonder why. Anyway, thanks very much for the heads-up, KUROK.

 

Edit: Turns out that gap you see on the forward quarter glass is not a frame member, but a gap in the Eduard canopy mask. It has a piece of Tamiya tape over it now. Perhaps the mask was produced before Hasegawa fixed the canopy problem. Whatever, there will be no canopy correction required. Thanks again to KUROK for looking out for us.

Edited June 28, 2017 by AdamR