Curtiss P-36 Hawk

Patryk S.
Did a black wash on the seat and a black and a engines and turbines wash from ak on the second engine row, which actually looks good when applied.

Łukasz Gliński
It does indeed 👍

Cuajete
👍

Patryk S.
Thank you Mates! Attached the seat to the cockpit today.

Patryk S.
Disaster struck when I tried to put mr hooby matt varnish on the firewall painted with ak real color as it dissolved the paint. Did a quick cleanup with tamiya airbrush cleaner which did an outstanding job. Used pactra interrior green instead which takes the varnish without problems. Installed the lower intake in closed position, the fit was as always bad so filled it with super glue, eill smooth it out after inslalling of the cowling.

Patryk S.
Maybe late but following! Looking forward to the end result!

Moreno Baruffini
Dear Edward, Bruce and Patryk, thanks for your interest and support!

Applying decals is becoming a sort of nightmare because some of them dissolve in water (maybe they are too old 🙂 )

Fortunately I have some spare decals 😉 : tomorrow I'll post an update 😉

Bruce Huxtable
It's a shame the stripes fell apart. Could you be tempted to take than off and hand paint them instead? The colours scheme is very eye catching.

Bruce Huxtable
More progress today? Looking forward to seeing final results 🙂

Moreno Baruffini
Yes Bruce, today I tried to apply more stripes but it's almost impossible...I'll go on masking with tape and painting them 🙂

Guy Rump
Good start Gary, looking forward to your progress. 🙂

Gary Kitchen
Going a bit off piste with this one Guy. Zumbach's brief mount Hawk 75A-2 No107 was captured and sold on to Finland becoming CU-556 so I'm doing half and half. Photos to follow.

Guy Rump
Really interesting combination of liveries Gary, strangely it seems to work, almost as if the time is when the Finns had taken the aircraft and had only half painted it so far...🙂

Gary Kitchen
Yes. I'm much more satisfied with the Finnish side as I really can't seem to crack these French Color combos. Not sure if I'll do one like this again though.

Jan Peters
Very nice work on this machine, love the two different shemes you did, very clever work

Gary Kitchen
Fabulous Build. I've got an old SMER Hawk coming up next in 1:72 and your detail here will certainly be a guide for my efforts.

Klaas van der Wielen
Well thanks guys. I finally had some time to make decent photos. Glad you like them!

Ben M
Very very nice. How did you do the subtle chipping?

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks Ben. I first gave the plane an aluminium coat and sealed it. Then I applied masking fluid with a piece of sponge on the places which would be worn or exposed to wind flow the most. After camouflaging I simply rubbed the masking of. Because I found the aluminium too bright I toned it down by spraying highly dilluted camouflage green over it.

Ben M
Thank you. I think I will try this on one of my current builds, I like how you were able to control where the chipping happened like in the wing leading edges.

Always nice to see a ml-knil subject like this hawk!