Kit maquette Pavla Models 1/72 Curtiss Hawk 81A début P40 collector vintage kit usine

Pavlas Hawk 81 is moulded in the obligatory medium grey on a single sprue that has very thin attachment points Surface detail is recessed and finely moulded with nicely done rivet detail A little baggie of resin bits consisting of sidewalls for the cockpit, seat, the complex radiator intake for the front of the nose, single ejector stubs, single propeller blades (oh fun!) and finally the gun barrels. The canopy is one of Scots favourites; yup, vacuformed, but at least you get two of them so you can screw one up and still retain your sanity. Rounding off the Pavla Hawk is a small piece of clear plastic that you cut out the rear windows from.The instruction book is just that, 18 pages crammed full of decal options and painting details with the 14 construction steps well thought out and easy to follow. Paint colours have Humbrol call outsDecals are given for no less than four aircraft: A P-40-CU of the 8 pursuit Group Commanders Flight, Langley Field Base, Virginia, Summer 1940; secondly a Tomahawk IIB F/Lt Clive R "Killer" Caldwell of 250 squadron, North Africa 1942 (he gained ten confirmed air victories with this Tomahawk). Third aircraft is a ex British Tomahawk IIB white 58" of Lt Alexey S.Khobystov of the 147th Fighter airwing Murmashi airfield, Spring 1942; finally a Curtiss H-81A-2 of Lt Charles N.Older from the American Volunteers 3rd sqaudron "Hells Angels" 1941/1942 (description from Modelling Madness) kit dates from around 2001