Curtiss P-40B Airfix kit

Sprues fresh from their bath. I know, it isn't necessary to wash the sprues any more, but I do it anyway. 

Cockpit parts painted and hair spray chipped. 

Same here. 

Basic air frame assembled. Showing the nice seam on the top of the fuselage. Also, you can see that the wing roots where not that great either. 

If you zoom in you can see how bad the wing join is at the area by the landing gear fairing. 

Belly shot here you can see how the wing to fuselage join and the rear fuselage seam required a bit of fill and sanding.  

The original kit part had the nose guns looking like a couple of corks glued onto a flat plate. I couldn't leave it that way. I drilled them out and replaced with some small steel tubing from the junk box. 

As of late I have tried to provide historical relevance to my builds. By that I mean, who was the man who flew this machine? How did he do? In this case it was R.T. Smith who had 8.9 victories with his time with the AVG in China. Therefore his picture is affixed to the display base. 

 

 

 

Here is another part I couldn't leave alone. The pipes are not open in box stock kit part, so I drilled them out. 

That's all Folks