After finishing my P-26A Peashooter, I took a detour from airplanes to build a castle. Now I'm back. I'm starting work on an American Volunteer Group (AVG) P-40B Warhawk (the AVG is the famous Flying Tigers). The model is from Paper AircraftWerks at ecardmodels.
The model is 1/32 scale. It is listed as a P-40C, but I believe the Flying Tigers only flew P-40Bs (planes initially manufactured for the RAF as Tomahawk IIBs). The model depicts plane #68, flown by Charles H. Older (who, per wikipedia, was later the judge who presided over Charles Manson's murder trial).
Here are low-res pictures of the cover and the parts pages:
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This is the first digital model I've purchased and printed myself. All of the parts to be printed on normal paper are on a single page, but the parts that need to be reinforced with cardboard are spread throughout the other five pages. Fortunately the PDF file isn't protected, so I was able to make my own page with all the parts that need reinforcing so that the page could be glued in one piece:
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I also made extra copies of parts that are to be thickened to 2 or 3 millimeters. Note to designers: please try to group up parts that need to be glued to cardboard so that those of us who use spray adhesive to do them can do them all in one shot. Thanks.
So far I'm very pleased with the design and the instructions. I'm just getting started, but I've put together the first chunk of the cockpit, with a number of fiddly little bits, and it's going together well:
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Updates as I make progress. I'm putting together the control handles, dashboard, and seat at this point.
The model is 1/32 scale. It is listed as a P-40C, but I believe the Flying Tigers only flew P-40Bs (planes initially manufactured for the RAF as Tomahawk IIBs). The model depicts plane #68, flown by Charles H. Older (who, per wikipedia, was later the judge who presided over Charles Manson's murder trial).
Here are low-res pictures of the cover and the parts pages:
Attachment 244548Attachment 244549Attachment 244550Attachment 244551Attachment 244552Attachment 244553
Attachment 244554
This is the first digital model I've purchased and printed myself. All of the parts to be printed on normal paper are on a single page, but the parts that need to be reinforced with cardboard are spread throughout the other five pages. Fortunately the PDF file isn't protected, so I was able to make my own page with all the parts that need reinforcing so that the page could be glued in one piece:
Attachment 244555
I also made extra copies of parts that are to be thickened to 2 or 3 millimeters. Note to designers: please try to group up parts that need to be glued to cardboard so that those of us who use spray adhesive to do them can do them all in one shot. Thanks.
So far I'm very pleased with the design and the instructions. I'm just getting started, but I've put together the first chunk of the cockpit, with a number of fiddly little bits, and it's going together well:
Attachment 244556
Updates as I make progress. I'm putting together the control handles, dashboard, and seat at this point.
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