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Trumpeter 1/72 P-40B AVG 2nd Squadron

Your Completed Kits Discuss Trumpeter 1/72 P-40B AVG 2nd Squadron in the Modeling forums; Finally finished! Thanks for following the build in the start to finish section! I wasn't terribly thrilled with the canopy, ...

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    Trumpeter 1/72 P-40B AVG 2nd Squadron

    Finally finished! Thanks for following the build in the start to finish section!

    I wasn't terribly thrilled with the canopy, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with the fit and quality of this kit.

    Any comments or crticisms welcome!

















    Thanks for looking!

    Andy

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    Looks good!

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    Nice job. Nice to see one from the Panda Bear squadron. Most builds are from Hell's Angels.
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    Fantastic job!! This is one to be proud of.

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    Looks pretty good hand brush painted?.

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    Thanks guys. No, Tim, it is airbrushed. I masked it with "sticky tack" and masking tape to make the hard demarcation lines that my research said that these birds had. I tried to do a little post shading, which made the paint darker at the edge of the sections. I did hand paint the canopy, though. One of these days I'm going to tackle trying to mask and airbrush those things, too.

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    Nicely done!


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    Andy, that's a really nice job, beautiful!

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    Very, very nice! Love the weathering! How did you do the rigging? It's great.

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    Thanks so much, guys! Bruce, the rigging is stretched sprue. I had to try several times to get such a thin piece. I took a piece of the streched sprue and super-glued it in the middle of the piece to the locator on the tail...



    then carefully streched it, and held it in a small puddle of super glue on each wing. After cutting off the excess sprue, I cut a very tiny piece of styrene and put it on top of the end of the sprue on each wing to simulate an attachment point.



    It took me two or three times of attempting this to get it right, and I still broke one of the pieces and had to redo the whole thing after that. After it was all set, I lightly brush painted it with Testors aluminum metallizer. The ariel between the tail and the top of the fuselage was done in a similar fashion, but was much easier.

    Thanks again!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by otftch View Post
    Nice job. Nice to see one from the Panda Bear squadron. Most builds are from Hell's Angels.
    Ed
    Thanks, Ed. I thought I'd try something out of the ordinary since there were so many markings available on the Sky decal sheet I bought. Besides, my family and I had just seen Kung Fu Panda 2 when I was about to decal it, so I was a little inspired by that.

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    Great technique! I'm going to try that next time. Thanks!

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    Super job, Andy. Great techinques.

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