1/48 Hasegawa Warhawk P40E

[STU111]

G’day all, I recently felt the need to build something with wings again. The P40 is probably my favourite WW2 plane. This  one was flown by George Preddy when he was a young pilot stationed in Darwin in Australia in 1942. Preddy was flying this plane on a training flight when he was involved in a mid air collision with another P 40, Preddy managed to bail out, unfortunately the other pilot, Lieutenant Sauber was killed in the incident. Upon his recovery, Preddy was sent back to the US. He went on to become one of the USAAF’s highest scoring aces flying P51 Mustangs.

The multi piece fuselage makes this kit somewhat challenging, but a bit of time filling gaps and rescribing panel lines makes for a nice accurate looking P40. Thanks for looking. 👍🏻

Edited Wednesday at 12:11 PM by STU111
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[shoopdog]

Great build of the P40. Always love to see these old warbirds.

[Jim B]

Your P40 came out really nice.  Very well done.

[Mike 1017]

Very Very Very great build of The Legendry WW II P-40E Warhawk. I have seen the movie The Flying Tigers (Starring John Wayne) and read a couple about them. After WW II they started The Flying Tigers Air Cargo Service Which flew out of O'Hare.

[STU111]

9 hours ago, Mike 1017 said:

Very Very Very great build of The Legendry WW II P-40E Warhawk. I have seen the movie The Flying Tigers (Starring John Wayne) and read a couple about them. After WW II they started The Flying Tigers Air Cargo Service Which flew out of O'Hare.

The American volunteer group, AKA the Flying Tigers were probably the most famous operators of the P40. I have a P40B kit in the stash that has the markings for the plane flown by Robert T Smith, a Flying Tiger ace. Cheers, Stuart. 👍🏻