The Curtiss P-40E in 1:48 scale. To the masks for the glazing, which cover the glass from both sides, and one set of national insignia, six brass barrels for the wing machine guns are added.
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The Curtiss P-40E was the first variant of the whole family to carry six machine guns of 12.7 mm caliber in the wing. The older versions had four wing weapons plus a pair of machine guns in the engine cowling; here the armament moved entirely into the wings. The British took the machine into service under the name Kittyhawk, American units knew it as the Warhawk and committed it from North Africa through the Pacific to the Soviet front, where it arrived as part of Allied aid deliveries.
The most metal of any set in this group. Six turned parts is an unusually high number and it is the geometry of the wing that decides here. The barrels emerge from the leading edge in three pairs side by side, so the eye immediately compares whether they are in line and equally long. That is exactly what is hardest with injected plastic: the molds cast the barrels as blind pegs and drilling six holes on the axis by hand means six opportunities to go astray.
The set corresponds to the Hasegawa kit. The recommended procedure is to glue the barrels in only after the wing has been sprayed and clear coated, otherwise the brass gets needlessly covered with paint and degreasing before the final assembly becomes complicated. The brass can at the same time be left in its metallic sheen; on some machines that looks more natural than black paint.
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