S&P 1/100 Seversky P-35

[PacificWind]

Nice job on this ugly plane!
Is it varnished? Looks a bit glossy, but that's good.

What's next? Maybe something from the Pacific War?

[cafe]

Nice build of a often forgotten plane.

[Rata]

Originally Posted by PacificWind

Nice job on this ugly plane!
Is it varnished? Looks a bit glossy, but that's good.

What's next? Maybe something from the Pacific War?

Not varnished- just how it printed out.

[gomidefilho]

Nice P-35...

[Rata]

Originally Posted by gomidefilho

Nice P-35...

From a 1/100 modelling legend like yourself, that's a real compliment! Many thanks.

[C9B]

Another nice one, Rata.

[Rata]

Thanks C9B!

I tried doing edges with colour pencils- no luck (probably should splash out and buy decent ones instead of the krappy ones I used). Then pastels- looked good until they rubbed right off again. Finally, some Vallejo brand acrylic paint (called Olive Grey- good match) which did the job.
Whadda ya think?

[Brent]

Looks good, I use a pencil for most of my edge colouring.

Brent.

[Don Boose]

Looks great!

Kacper: The P-35 did see combat in the Pacific War with the Philippine Army Air Corps and with the 34th Pursuit Squadron.

The Swedish Flygvapnet also flew P-35s (J9s). I had a close friend, Colonel Klerren Nilsson, who flew J9s as a member of Flygflottilj 9 out of Goteborg in 1940, defending Stockholm and on neutrality patrols along the Swedish border. He told me that the United States took over the second shipment of P-35s and sent them to the Philippines. At the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, I saw photographs of P-35s still in Swedish markings taxying at Del Carmen Airfield, although I am sure they had been repainted by the time they went into combat.

I look forward to your next build, Rata.

Don

[MichaelS]

Great job. I'm sure Alexander Kartveli would be proud.