1/72 Academy P-40B Flying Tiger

Gallery Article by Charles Poon on May 25 2011

 

I am interested in collecting and building a P-40B Tomahawk model kit in every scale, I have a plan to built all the scale Tomahawk  in number 68 of AVG flying Tiger, here I present my recently built Academy 1/72 Tomahawk, please enjoy. No after market products were used, I just added some handmade seatbelts and gunsight. Some panel lines are missing and wrong (especially in top of the main wing), to be corrected as reference drawing.

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A problem is finding on the fix of the rear part canopy, almost 0.5mm thickness of transparent part is bulged out of the body, I glued the canopy to body and rub it to suit the body sharp, then used sand paper and Tamiya compound to make the canopy glossy. The shark-mouth decal does not including the blue colour area, I had to paint it with enamel paint after I applied the decal.

Enjoy the photos.

Charles Poon

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Photos and text © by Charles Poon