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  1. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    I am just going to simulate a rivet with a small dot with a soldering iron in the primer before the color goes on.
  2. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Primer coat and getting teady to tape all the panel lines
  3. Charles

    Build Log Top Flite P-40E Warhawk Gold Edition kit

    Mine weighs in at 11 lbs
  4. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Grey primer next and then panel lines especially ad rivets
  5. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    priming sanding spotting and sanding and priming and sanding and priming.
  6. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Wife is better so I am able to work on this again in about four months so put the first primer coat on.
  7. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Wife is better so I am able to work on this again in about four months so a
  8. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Sorry everyone mine is still unpainted. My wife fell and broke her shoulder in early December and has had to have several operations so plane is still waiting to be painted. Maybe next month I will be able to finish it.
  9. Charles

    Build Log Top Flite P-40E Warhawk Gold Edition kit

    Looking good you might catch me I haven't been able to finish mine as wife fell and broke her shoulder and it has been sitting downstairs waiting to be painted.
  10. Charles

    Build Log Top Flite P-40E Warhawk Gold Edition kit

    Looks Good
  11. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Looks great I wish I was that artistic
  12. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Im going with the camo scheme of the Flying tigers a brown with olive drab green camo.
  13. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Just waiting for paint and a pilot
  14. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    I think I might build this old kit next instead of the biplane
  15. Charles

    Build Log Top Flite P-40E Warhawk Gold Edition kit

    I see you used electric retracts I wish I had gone that way the air retracts have proven to be a real pain in the ass. I just finished and will start the painting process.
  16. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Finished the last phase and got the air system installed and working. I had a little problem with the air retract when I first installed them they were leaking everytime I operated them I checked for leaks and there were none so cleaned the operating rods and continued to operate and they got...
  17. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    I'm already looking forward to my next build when i finish this plane.
  18. Charles

    Build Log Top Flite P-40E Warhawk Gold Edition kit

    Check your gear pods to make sure they put both left and right side in. They put two right side pods in mine so I had to fabricate my pods from balsa.
  19. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    During the next week I'm going to finish installing the gear pneumatics and the aileron and flap controls and this plane will be ready to paint.
  20. Charles

    Scale Top Flite P-40 Build Thread

    Worked a little more on it I got the servos mounted and the russed , tail wheel and the elevator working. anf the throttle control rod installed.
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