WIP Hasegawa 1/32 P-40E (Yes, I really do build.)

Littlemarten · Mar 29, 2025

Not a bad kit, though there are some fit problems:

Some shots of the cockpit, enhanced with Quinta Studio 3D decals and some scratch-built cables on the gunsight and back of the control panel.

The gun sight and back of the main panel, which won't be very visible once the windscreen is attached, but at least it won't be empty space. Need to redo the gun sight lens.

kevin · Mar 29, 2025

That cockpit is looking pretty sharp!

Littlemarten · Mar 29, 2025

Thank you, Kevin!

BarleyBop · Mar 29, 2025

Geez, killing me with these cockpit interiors! Lucky if you get a speedometer with WW2 vehicles!

That looks fantastic!

Littlemarten · Mar 30, 2025

No dashboards?! Don't build many vehicles, just an occasional tank, where I wouldn't expect one. Thanks for the compliment!

Peppylepugh · Mar 30, 2025

Wow.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Awesome cockpit detail.

Littlemarten · Mar 30, 2025

Peppylepugh said:
Wow.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Awesome cockpit detail.

Thank you!

lacrosse dad · Friday at 9:41 AM

Littlemarten said:
Not a bad kit, though there are some fit problems:
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Some shots of the cockpit, enhanced with Quinta Studio 3D decals and some scratch-built cables on the gunsight and back of the control panel.

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The gun sight and back of the main panel, which won't be very visible once the windscreen is attached, but at least it won't be empty space. Need to redo the gun sight lens.View attachment 142296

Some of you are not human, some of you are magical model elves put here to make the rest of our models look like 2nd grade finger paintings. Amazing detail, fantastic work!!!!

Littlemarten · Friday at 11:36 AM

Thank you! A lot of that "amazing detail" is due to the La Quinta 3D decals, which, admittedly, are a lot of work to apply. If not for them, I'd still be working on the cockpit, scratch building as much detail as I can manage. As a retired microscopist, I tend to put in as much detail as I can. I've had the experience of putting in detail that is too small to be seen by the naked eye.

The painting and shading, however, is all mine.

lacrosse dad · Friday at 11:40 AM

Littlemarten said:
Thank you! A lot of that "amazing detail" is due to the La Quinta 3D decals, which, admittedly, are a lot of work to apply. If not for them, I'd still be working on the cockpit, scratch building as much detail as I can manage. As a retired microscopist, I tend to put in as much detail as I can. I've had the experience of putting in detail that is too small to be seen by the naked eye.

The painting and shading, however, is all mine.

Exceptional regardless.....a modeler has arrived when an aircraft stops looking like a model and looks like actual photos of the aircraft or a tiny version of the real thing....you created that, well done!

Littlemarten · Friday at 12:33 PM

High praise, indeed—I just took a look at some of your work!

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