Well this will be my second Monogram/Revell P-40B I’ve done on this Forum. The first time was for my son and I made it straight OOB. It turned out okay.
This time I’m having some fun with it. What I’ve got done so far is the right side pit wall and the floor/seat/IP area. I haven’t started on the left side wall yet.
This build is for the “Where are you from?” Group Build on Genessis. So far I’m having a blast with all of this scratch building. Although its not entirely accurate, I have mixed up a few ideas from different reference pictures and a little imagination.
So while I wait for the Mo jo to return on my P-36A, I’ll be messing around with this classic.
I thought I was ambitious with my build, but scratching out the office, well now, that’s something else all together. Very nice work on the pit. I’m hoping to find the ambition to get back on mine as it is languishing on the shelf of doom at the moment. I’ll be watching.
Mike, before you finishs your cockpit, check your references. I think that you will see that those bars along the sides of the open cockpit are atually part of the canopy. If your canopy is slid back/open, the bottom/bars goes with it!
Mike don’t feel bad, most people miss that when they open the canopy of the Revell P-40. It becomes obvious if you look at a photo of a real aircraft that has an open canopy. You may note that the front piece of that molded on panel on the kit is not part of the sliding canopy. it is actually under the wind screen and acts as a forward stop! I hope the adjustment does not interfere with all that fine work you have done.
Fixing the office is the hardest part of building the Revell kit. I scratch built mine and then closed the canopy. I have the new Airfix kit in my stash; it comes with an excellent interior, complete with the proper curve in the floor board to represent the wing top.
