My belated contest entry?

DavidMod

In the spirit of long-distance support for the group entry at the recent Hornets contest, here is my not-present-and-not finished entry. This is the Hasegawa 1/32 P-40E kit. Assembly of this kit is a bit tricky because of it's 'modular' design which allows many variants to be issued using fewer new molds.

As always we begin in the office. I've used a bit of Eduard color PE to spruce things up a bit:

The fuselage closed up...

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MiG17 · Power User Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 76

WHOA NELLIE

Dave that's an impressive office and fuselage

now keep in mind most everyone else has until November's meeting
to complete so there's still time brother

thanks for posting while I was still at work and online with fast computer

DavidMod

Wings attached...

MiG17 · Power User Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 76

LOOK AT THAT

WINGS ATTACHED WHILE I WAS TYPING MY FIRST RESPONSE

GREAT WORK DAVID

no wonder you're web master Twisted Evil

I'll send you more pics of contest NOW instead of tomorrow

DavidMod

Here's the gunsight before everything gets enclosed in 'glass' and masked off..

And now all masked up:

The paint revealed that some more work was needed to clean up the clear parts. More soon!

DavidMod

MiG17 · Power User Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 76

While I am in midst of sending more

you reply

glad i chose now instead of waiting til I am home from other job
at 1 am to do this!!!

DavidMod

I got it primed tonight.... Hope to get some color on her this week!

DavidMod

Finally started to get some paint on her today. I started by preshading with Nato Black, then did the belly with neutral gray. This coat was polished with a polishing stick.

Then I went back over the center areas of the panels with a lighter shade of NG. This is a first for me and I think I like it!

No to try for a similar effect on the upper surface.....