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

[rcdude07]

Ordered the parts needed to make progress on Monday from Tower Hobbies (gift card from www.realrcreviews.com for the work I've done there). Package arrived yesterday. Now to get time to work on the plane. After attending Warbirds Over Dixie 2015 on 8-15-15 and seeing the lack of kit built planes, I'm fueled to try to get this plane done for next year's event.

 

[Charles]

Ordered the parts needed to make progress on Monday from Tower Hobbies (gift card from www.realrcreviews.com for the work I've done there). Package arrived yesterday. Now to get time to work on the plane. After attending Warbirds Over Dixie 2015 on 8-15-15 and seeing the lack of kit built planes, I'm fueled to try to get this plane done for next year's event.

Great glad to see you back to work on it :banana:

 

[rcdude07]

Great glad to see you back to work on it :banana:

Thanks. I kind of build in spurts when I'm motivated. After going to Warbirds Over Dixie and seeing no P-40 and lack of kit builds (ARF or BNF were prominent), I want to have this girl flying next year.

 

[Charles]

Thanks. I kind of build in spurts when I'm motivated. After going to Warbirds Over Dixie and seeing no P-40 and lack of kit builds (ARF or BNF were prominent), I want to have this girl flying next year.

Glad to hear that I kind of do the same kind of stalled now as i have to pull the engine and retune on the stand because i had to pull the carb on the final fitting to make some small adjustments so i am thinking before i pull go ahead and fit the simulated exhaust and then pull, tune and reinstall before installing servos and air system in the fuselage and painting.

 

[rcdude07]

Drilled the motor mount blind nut holes this morning before heading off to work.

 

[rcdude07]

Got the motor mount mounted this morning before everyone was up and having to go to the office. I had to open up the top die cut holes a little bit to allow the blind nut to fit as well as glue in some smaller pieces of extra ply where a few blind nuts weren't going to bite the plywood reinforcement pieces.

 

[rcdude07]

Finally was able to get a reqlly good chunk of uninterrupted time today to work on the next steps of the P-40. I was working with sheeting and curving the sheeting, so I had to wet it, hold it in place at sections at a time to allow the glue to set. Once set and the wood dried enough I had a fair amount of sanding to do. Next up is to roughly shape the top deck, which transitions from relatively flat at the canopy to almost completely round at the firewall.

 

[rcdude07]

Top deck sanded and roughly shaped as well as the top aft fuse sides glued together. In the pic below they are just loosely sitting in place for effect.

 

[AKNick]

love the looks of the turtle decks with the window cut outs on these WWII planes... especially the P-40

 

[Charles]

Looking Good