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Great job and Testors MM looks great. Wish they were still in production.

I read Morehead's book some years ago. It was good! He did think the P-40 was a dog, though.

Great job, JohnB. Love those NMF P-40s!

He must've done it so you could offset the rudder for a natural look?

Long delay due to lots of other things going on with work/family. Can I get my mojo back? Well, here are the wonderful Airscale heavy paper seat belts for your perusal:

Great start! I built the Eduard 1/48 mk IX and it was an absolute joy. So I have really coveted the Tamiya mk IX (and now the Airfix 1/24 mk IX). I will watch your build with interest.

Interesting conversion. These are different and fun to see!

Another great looking model, JohnB!

What type of dark grey putty do you use? I'm curious as I see the foam filler and the styrene formers you have marked with sharpie. If you sand down until you see sharpie lines won't the filler be so thin at that point it will have no strength? Unless the foam is harder than it looks...

I can't recall but by the looks of it I'd say it was 1/32 or 1/35.

I usually bring my DSLR to the model show. This year I wanted to focus on enjoying the show and not messing with photography. Couldn't help myself....took some snapshots with my iPhone. No real pattern here, just took shots of quality work or interest. Note there is a gorgeous Kotare Spitfire. Also and Fisher Sea Fury which I hope will kick me into working on my kit! Enjoy: Vince's photos from the show (Click on photo to enlarge and to zoom)

I think the Magic Factory 1/48 Corsair is a contender. Also, I own the 1/32 MPC studio scale Star Wars TIE Fighter and it is really cool!

That kit looks beautiful and you are doing a smashing job. However, that multipart cowling makes me want to build my Tamiya P-47D then think about purchasing this kit.

Wow!!!! I need details on how you did those little round louvers!

Another stellar Wildcat on the shelf! I have one of the Eduard F4F kits and can't wait to build that.

LOL. I saw the white and clean paint job and knew it was post war. Must've thought it was a racer!

So nice to see an unusual non-military subject. Clean, nice work! I can smell the Testors from here. Smells so good!

Oh yeah, I can't remember who put that out there. It scales to the 1/350 Enterprise kit. BTW, did you see this week that the original 3 foot Enterprise model had surfaced....on eBay? Auction has been taken down but the good news is that it has survived. Hope it will be preserved properly..

Cool. Is that the Captain Cardboard Klingon kit? Or Jim Key's kit?

Sooooo nice!

A tidbit of progress. I took the kit gun sight in hand and added a thinner piece of clear glass. It was attached with UV cure glue and the clear "lens" was done with that too. I like that glue for many uses.

Great job! I have done one Eduard so far, Spitfire MkIX, and it was a joy to build. Seems you and Eduard are made for each other?

You are right. I have more kits and decals of the N than anything else right now for P-40. There were so many produced and so many schemes to choose from. That plane was out-shined by the newer planes but was such a workhorse.

She's a beauty, JohnB! I've come to like all the P-40 variants but the first one I really liked was the "E".

Great work so far and, if I may coin a phrase, "turning a sow's ear into a silk purse" is a great description. I used to think kits like this were a fun challenge but .... I'm now willing to pay more for a quality kit from Tamiya or Eduard.