All P-40 variants, including Tomahawk, Kittyhawk, and Warhawk.
Curtiss P-40N-1 Warhawk, white 60, “Rough Cobb”, 89th FS, 80th FG, Assam, India, 1944 This was for a group build our local club did for the show circuit in 2019. I completed this Hobby Boss P-40M as a P-40N-1 back in 2018. This was a fun little build suggested by a member in our local […]
Curtiss Kittyhawk Ia, serial unknown/U, Sqn Ldr Richard Cresswell, 77th Squadron RAAF, New Guinea, 1942 This is another one of those “started over a decade ago, not sure when, but pulled off the shelf and finished!” Completed in December 2018. The Subject Before knowing Squadron Leader Cresswell’s history, I chose to model this subject because
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Fictional Racer This is not my scale, being 1/48th, but it was free and the club wanted to do a “build the same kit” theme so I acquiesced. The Backstory What if NASCAR never took off, so to speak, but aviation racing reached the sponsorship and popularity of modern day NASCAR? Lots of aircraft available
Not just another Flying Tiger — “It’s GRRREAT!” Read More »
Well, the 70th anniversary of the “Day of Infamy” was last December. Every year we commemorate any milestone anniversary with a theme build; but not necessarily a specific event. This year I decided to note the attack on Pearl Harbor as most modelers were focusing on more recent milestones. At any rate, I dropped the
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The requirement was to build any subject with a shark or shark mouth motif or related to a shark in some way. Examples are a Blackburn Shark (been there, done that), any various aircraft with a shark mouth, SS-174 USS SHARK, a P-3 Orion of VP-6 “Blue Sharks”…you get the picture. I wanted to make
