1/48 Hobbycraft P-40 B/C

Gallery Article by Kyle B. Delisle on June 5 2009

 

Here is my first submission to ARC of the Hobbycraft P-40 that I built (and took pictures of) while I was deployed to Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan as an infantryman with the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New York Army National Guard, in 2008.  I built the model during our down time between combat patrols.  Luckily for me, my wife sent me all of my essential modeling tools (including my airbrush) and my dad sent me the kit in a care package.  As well, my company’s employees sent me an air compressor, so I was set to continue working on models while overseas.  (Oddly enough, I managed to complete more models in the 1 year in Afghanistan than I normally do in 1 year at home.  Go figure.)

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The kit was built out of the box using the kit decals with the only addition being an antenna wire made from fishing line.  Although the cockpit and wheel well detail was a little soft, overall it was a great kit with no fit problems at all.  The model was painted using Model Master Acrylics with Interior Green for the cockpit and wheel wells, RAF Dark Earth and Dark Green on the topsides, and I don’t recall what color I used for the undersides (I think I used Aircraft Gray).  

The model was weathered with a dark brown oil wash and Tamiya weathering pastels for the exhaust stains.

Kyle B. Delisle

Photos and text © by Kyle B. Delisle