P-40E Fisken . . WIP

[general]

This has been a drawn-out effort. I started last October. Study and work hassles meant it kind of overran the 3 mth target I'd set.
Second of the commission builds for a chap.
Painted the white then masked, then the decals showed up the mask edges. Stripping (delicately), sanding back then re-painting took care of the kit's wing roundels.
Through the kind auspices of Saint Peter Mossong he produced a whole sheet of RNZAF. In the correct blue.
Some experimentation with Humbrol and Tamiya Duck Egg Green gave me (hopefully) a close match for the undersides.
A matt coat and the inevitable sticky-outy stuff and she'll be done.

Green and brown are various tones of Humbrol 29, 30, 119, and 121, amd Revell 40, 42 and 87. All lightened with drops of white, buff, yellow and light grey. It certainly gives a subtle variation in tonal quality.
The matt will (hopefully) bring it all together.












Cheers

Ross "General" McArthur

[Tony]

Ummm don't want to be a kill-joy but did she carry a white tail?


P-40K NZ3060

[general]

Knew s/one would bring it up.
The client wants this scheme, popular on the warbird circuit.


Thanks to Pete M I was able to attach the correct serial, rather than the spurious 'NZ3009'.
Personally, I like the full white tail.

Cheers

Ross

[Dave Homewood]

It is looking good Ross.

[Damon]

Nothing spurious at all.NZ3009 is correct for that P-40E.The white tail was painted initially on completion of rebuild.later on in the U.K it had the white stripes on tailplane and fin/rudder.The Wildcat motif and Japanese flags only were on NZ3072 and painted on NZ3009 at the WoW airshow 1998.

[Dave Homewood]

You're talking about the warbird scheme there Damon but Ross is referring to the actual wartime scheme of Wairarapa Wildcat (II), the second of Geoff Fisken's personal aircraft, as seen in Tony's photo pre-marking of the nose art.

Note the nose art in the profile has the (II) on it. NZ3009 did not have that I don't think when it wore Geoff's scheme.

The only issue I see is did the client want the warbird NZ3009 built, which is a P-40E as Ross seems to be building, or did the client was NZ3060 built which was a P-40K?

[Damon]

I guess Ross is building a 'E' as a 'K'.The 4 plan scheme above is for NZ3009 as said .Hence my previous post.I am sure the kitset (1/48?) will come out very well!

[general]

Not a problem, gents. I do believe some expansion and explanation should be forthcoming.

The white tail feathers are accepted, and this after in-depth discussion among the 'literati'.
I'm au fait with that , in spite of the populist archival pics showing the scheme sans all-white.
rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/gf.html

rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/p40ser.html

And I must post an addendum. Pardon the confusion - '3060' is, of course a -K.
Once more the victim of diverse reference sources!
But I trust Pete M to know the serial no. Hence I eschewed the client's S/N for the historically accurate '3060/9'. He don't mind. (No, really, I asked ..)

The fun thing about it all, last of the commission trio is the TBF-1. Woo-hoo!
Can't wait to get into that. There's aluminium finish, IG, ZCG . . .


Cheers

Ross

[ZacYates]

Dave, '09 did indeed wear the (II) at WoW '98. I recently built a "What If" Kiwi Spitfire in Geoff's markings and consulted my copy of Ian Brodie's book as reference. It can clearly be seen.

GREAT model, by the way, she is looking gorgeous! I can't imagine building a modeler someone else like that, I'd be disheartened at putting in all that work only to give it to the client. That said, each to their own, and wow is it good!

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks for the correction Zac.

I find it so sad that both Wairarapa Wildcats, NZ3060 and NZ3072, were in the Rukuhia dump and bother were melted down.

[general]

Thanks, Zac. I used to think like that, back in the day.
Now, the main buzz is getting the chance to build s/thing, go through the process and find out where I'm slack, then sit back and look around. once it's on the shelf - or back with the client - it's only another dust-collector!
I can quite happily put in hours on a model, for s/one else. And trust me, it's not the money!
He wanted some kits built is all, but no time to do it himself. Besides, I'll have the build log on 'puter.
Cheers

Ross "General" McArthur

[nz3009]

Hi General,
I am the person (Roel Schouten) who did the 4-View drawing of NZ3009 in the Wildcat Scheme that is featured in this forum, it took me hours to draw. I'm not sure where you got it from as I haven't shared it with many people, But I have since modified it as there was an error in the colour scheme near the tail.

Cheers
Roel

[general]

Thanks, Roul. I appreciate your reply.
And I apologise for overstepping any boundaries.
To respond, I was sent this by the gentleman for whom I built the kit, as reference.
I was under the assurance he had acknowledgement to share it. But I do recognise I may assumed a liberty to post that wasn't implied.

I would be happy to delete it.

Kind regards

[JamesStokes]

Loving the paint scheme; I'm planning do do the same scheme but as I am a huge Warbird enthusiast, I'll be using "NZ3009" even if it isnt historically accurate, I simply love modelling NZ warbirds!
Great effort

[general]

Thanks, James.

I'd like to see how you tackle your kit. You can't have too many P-40s.

Linky to the 'dual build', -K and -M models:

s4.photobucket.com/user/Riskyrossco/library/Progress/Kittyhawk%20Hasegawa%20and%20Italeri?sort=3&page=1

Regards

[JamesStokes]

Damn right you can't! I'm now looking for my fifth P-40 kit; First and second were the somewhat basic and average Airfix kit, followed by the Revell P-40K which I've done as Tim's old one, and I've recently completed ZK CAG but without the noseart as I'm not quite game enough to paint Currawong just yet! I think 3009 will be next in the pipeline