Planet
1/48 XP-40Q
Kit 104
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The
rest of the parts. Main landing gear struts have wire
reinforcement cast in. I compared the landing gear struts to
those from a Hasegawa kit to find the right length,
which seemed to be at the top of the top ring
cast on the strut. I left the strut a little longer than that and
drilled a companion hole in the wing to seat the top of the
strut.
I was frustrated
by all those individual exhaust stacks which had to be cut, trimmed,
and fit to the fuselage individually. They may be a little
oversize.
I used the
supplied prop blades but now that the model is complete they do not
seem as broad in chord as they look to be in photos of the XP-40Q.