FREDDIEM Posted October 21, 2023 Report Posted October 21, 2023 Starting a new project and noticed something weird.....The positioning of the underside light fixture is on the left side of the model......every scale drawing I can find shows it to be a single light on the RIGHT side of the aircraft. I am surprised that Hasegawa would make this kind of error. Anyone with any information regarding this , please pass it along to me. It has got me really curious.
FREDDIEM Posted October 21, 2023 Author Report Posted October 21, 2023 I just noticed that I was in error because the light fixture is on the wing root fillet correctly on the model, but, I cannot find any drawings showing the two fixtures on the model. Still very curious....
ghodges Posted October 21, 2023 Report Posted October 21, 2023 (edited) They appear to be later model ID lights that were added on the P-40L and P-40N, according to this drawing in Detail & Scale... so you'd want to fill and erase them for your P-40E. Edited October 21, 2023 by ghodges
FREDDIEM Posted October 22, 2023 Author Report Posted October 22, 2023 I'm also finding inspection hatches that don't appear on any drawings as well.
ghodges Posted October 22, 2023 Report Posted October 22, 2023 I don't know how demanding you are of yourself as far as accuracy goes.... but I can tell you for the sake of contest purposes that the judges do not judge or grade on accuracy, so unless you're worried about having all of the panels correct for your own sake, don't get too bogged down in such details. The ONLY person to worry about satisfying is yourself! I heartily recommend your get the Detail and Scale book on the P-40 as it has very good line drawings on all of the major sub-types as well as plenty of detail pics of many of the access panels, and hopefully info on those you're concerned about. Gil
Nick Filippone Posted October 22, 2023 Report Posted October 22, 2023 In fact, the number of judges who could recall from memory were and how lights and inspection panels were arranged on each P-40 variant can be counted on the fingers of one elbow. This is one of the main reasons why we are exhorted NOT to use such accuracy issues as a criteria in evaluating entries. Nick Filippone, Senior National Judge 1 1
FREDDIEM Posted December 2, 2023 Author Report Posted December 2, 2023 Thanks for all the great info.
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