Getting my pic skills restarted, this is what I'm doing:
I want to build a 1st Squadron AVG Flying Tiger in late 1941- early 1942.
Now this means no Disney flying tiger decal/ sticker on the fuselage, no wheel cover tri-color swirlies (3rd Squadron only), 1st Squadron green apple insignia, and a particular shark mouth. I like the somewhat more round-topped open mouth with the kind of neutral (not angry) staring eyes. And I have decided on plane #13:
Now... my particular shark mouth came today... and fortuitously with properly shaped numbers to do the plane I want.
Here is where I'm at in the painting (bottom's all pre-shaded, painted and faded):
MASSIVE amounts of puttying and sanding but this Monogram kit REALLY looks like an early P-40.
I have already stuffed an Eduard cockpit (for the Trumpeter kit) inside, Quickboost exhaust stubs, and jazzed up the landing gear, wheel wells, and radiator flaps with more PE.
Tonight and tomorrow will be masks for the hard-edged camouflage and hopefully the second camo color. I'm slowly coming around to pre-shading, only because it doesn't look TOO terrible here.
Thanks for looking.
Ken