She looks pretty friggin’ good to me John! [Y]
Thanks, Gamera. Thank you too, Frank, and good luck with your search for the kit.
Looks like the lead horse is past the finish line here. My way of saying that as usual for me there are a few spots I should go back and mess with, but it’s at that point where if I mess with it anymore I will likely make a mess of it!
The areas that may benefit from improvement in the kit are the size of the prop blades, the size of the nose piece with the chin scoop, and the shape of the lower line of the canopy. I would remove the molded seat belts and replace them with Eduard parts. There are no parts for the pitot tube that was on this airplane in the scheme I adopted, and there was no representation of the position lights. The decals were excellent, although missing the Curtiss Electric logos for the prop. All in all a fine resin kit by Planet.
I made the dorsal antenna out of fine transformer wire, it is straight right now but very delicate. Do they make .005 music wire? [:^)]
I thought it would be interesting to get pictures with the last Mustang variant with the last of the P-40’s, so I brought out the Collect Aire P-51H I built some years ago. I also took some with my Monogram P-40B, first and the last. It would be fun to put a P-36 in the picture too, but the only P-36 I’ve built so far is in 1/32 scale.
Very well done!
The last two comparison pictures seem seem to me to show two entirely different families of aircraft! Very interesting.
Great job there John, love how she came out! [ht]
With them sitting there side by side I think even more that the P-40Q was a much more attractive aircraft than the P-51D. My two cents anyhow. [;)]
Jeaton, the finished airplane is terrific! I want one for sure now. Maybe two if I can find 'em. I have the Classic Airframes P-51H I picked up at model show a while back. Haven’t had the gumption to start it yet. Hobbycraft made a 1/48 scale P-36 some time ago. I’m building one right now. Great kit. Not too difficult to find. The ESCI 1/48 P-36 is around too. I have one up in the stash, but the Hobbycraft is nicer. If I can find the Planet kit, I have several AMT P-40 kits in the stash that I can liberate exhaust stacks from instead of using the kit stacks.
Thanks, Mike and Gamera. Frank, I have 3 of the AMT/ESCI P-36 kits, just haven’t built any yet. I only have the Hawk 75 version from Hobbycraft. I did build the 1/32 Special Hobby P-36 but my photo setup isn’t big enough to put it far enough back to look right[;)]
Well done, sir. I like the comparison pics, very neat.
Thanks for sharing this build!
Great finish John. Surprising how small it is.
Question, do you have any pictures of the aircraft at the museum. Also, what happened to the aircraft since then, as I have never found any “recent” pictures of it.
Just last night I happened to be looking through an old Air Clasics magazine that had an article on Canadian P-40’s and it mentioned this airplane. Turns out it had a modified P-80 canopy and was not a Q at all. It was actually a P-40N which had been registered as N1251N and as an E in the FAA records. Sue Parish bought the airplane from Ed Maloney and registered it as P-40N N222SU. I took some photos of this airplane at Oshkosh in 1978, it was beautiful. The N was originally from Chowchilla, USAAF 44-7619, N5038V.
It’s probably in the Kalamazoo Air Zoo collection today.
Not a very pretty airplane.
Much prettier!
Yep, that’s just what it looked like when I saw it in 1966 at Ontario. That looks like Ontario, too.
I went back in 68 or 69, and all the airplanes were gone. I asked an airport worker where they had gone and he said “we made them get all that junk off the field”.[8o|]
In that case, I saw that aircraft there at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo 3-4 years back. It hangs over the admissions desk in the front. it is about the first thing you see as you walk in. very nice, and nice looking build of the Q.
That’s come out really nicely John. Good looking aircraft too. Wonder how it would have gone in combat?