I'm up to the point of making the engine plug for my two current FW190Ds and while contemplating how I wanted to attack that I watched John Wayne in Flying Tigers. Combine that with Marc Rocca's post from Feb. 9 about building the Academy P-40E in one night
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47751/message/1297302185/One+night---+one+airplane+EDIT-+I%27M+A+FRAUD and Lynn deciding that this would be a great idea for the next Theme Pics topic + his opinion that I'd be all over it like a "cheap suit" (I'll have you know Lynn, I ain't cheap
) and Steve N. suggesting that I should build a P-40 (even though it wasn't one of the 35 projects I was picking from) and you get this.
Watching the movie the first thing that struck me was the ridiculous "P-40Bs" they were taxiing around followed closely by them having pretty good footage of Japanese aircraft and Flying Tiger P-40Es and suddenly I though that Steve N was right. So I dug out my Hasegawa P-40E and my Otaki P-40E to look them over. Didn't feel like starting another "real" build at this time and the Otaki kit shows the only sharkmouth markings I actually like on the P-40 (British in Dark Earth, Midstone, Azure Blue) I had my project. Unfortunately, while the Otaki box shows the British plane, inside they only give you the Aleutian Tiger markings that I originally bought the kit for. With the movie still fresh in my mind I decided I might as well build a Flying Tiger one since everybody else on the planet has built one.
Getting back to Marc's post Lynn though for the theme pics we would have to pick any kit and build it in one day. The requirement was that we needed to photograph the build with proof that it was being done in a day and I had the criteria for my build.
I knew that there was little possibility that I'd actually finish the Otaki 1/48 P-40E in one day but I do think two days is realistic. So here it is, the time on my watch is 1PM and the day say 22;
The following pictures are my in progress shots. I was nominally trying to take a picture every hour but that didn't quite work out. At the end of each "hour" I'd gather everything together, put my watch next to the group and shoot then get back to working on it.
after this shot I stopped to let some of the assemblies "cure" and eat dinner then it was back to the workbench.
and here is where I'm at at the end of day one. Total time working on the model at this point is 8½ hours. The landing gear isn't attached yet just fitted in place to check alignment and levels and the prop is just fitted to make it look better in the picture.
I'm expecting to finish this today...
So is this what you have in mind Lynn? Well, with a completed model at the end of the day anyway...
Jeff
IPMS something or other
