These were items I started while wife was in the convalescent hospital, after the crisis had passed. I finished them up after completing the HF-27 scratch-build and the N17bis.
First is a Curtiss P-6E from the 17th Pursuit Sqdn in 1932:
This is the vintage Monogram 1/72 kit, which remains a gem all on its own. I made new exhausts, fairings for the bell-cranks (under the lower wing tips), turnbuckle fairings, an interior, and added damper rods. Nose marking (the normal appearance of the unit's machines) is reverse masking with a lot of touching up....
This is a P-40 in the markings of the 33rd Pursuit Sqdn in 1940:
This is the new Airfix Tomahawk 1/72 kit, with a few small tweaks to make it appear to be an early production example. There remain a couple of inaccuracies about the canopy; early examples did not have armor glass behind the windscreen, and no perforations in the 'rear view' panel on the portside.
I have started a new Great War scratch-build, but have not got enough done to be worth posting up yet. And I will be beginning an N.27 for the French Group Build when the kit arrives in the mail....
