*SOLD* Walt Musciano Scientific "Red Tiger P-40" kit

Scientific P-40 profile fuse, symmetrical built-up wing. Finished two weeks ago. Done specifically because I did not have a line on the Red Tiger!

Hey, that’s a great looking model. With your skills you deserve the “red line”model. Only and only if something catastrophic happens and you can’t get the pay pal completed, I would like to have 2nd place chance if you decline to purchase. But, I hope you can get it.

944_Jim wrote:PM sent:
Please tell me all the plastic is there...if so, Hold this kit for me please...give me 24 hours to come up with $$.

Jim in MS

Hey Jim that's a gorgeous P-40!  Yes the kit is complete with all the plastic and it is in perfect shape.  I will be glad to hold it for you but I need to have a time estimate.
Thank you,
Steve

Marleysky wrote:Hey, that’s a great looking model.  With your skills you deserve the “red line”model. Only and only if something catastrophic happens and you can’t get the pay pal completed, I would like to have 2nd place chance if you decline to purchase.  But, I hope you can get it.

Hey Marley we'll see how it goes with Jim and if it doesn't work out, you have it.
BTW, We are almost neighbors, I live just east of Rochester in Washington TWP.

944_Jim wrote:Scientific P-40 profile fuse, symmetrical built-up wing. Finished two weeks ago. Done specifically because I did not have a line on the Red Tiger!

What engine do you have in your P-40?

First flight on a Golden Bee knock-off. If it needs more, then this happens next:

Steve,
I'm all in. PM via email with contact info has been sent.
Please let me know if/when you get it.

Thanks,
Jim in MS

Good for you.  I wanna see pictures of the finished model!

For Steve,
$$ sent. Thanks a bunch!
For Marleysky,
Since you seem to appreciate Scientific kits:
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2754564-Scientific-Hawker-Typhoon-Reproduction-by-DCP-Models

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2754568-Scientific-FW190-DCP-Models-reproduction

I'll let those two threads highlight Dave Cowell's work in producing/keeping these old kits available. He should be reproducing the Profile P-40 above soon. When I come across an old.kit, I send it to him. So far we have worked together on the Scientific Profile P-40, Profile Super Mustang (both feature the symmetrical wing and engine cowl), and the Scientific Bird Dog with box fuselage (I scored the plastics for him). Guess where the Red Tiger is going next...

Hi All,

I wanted to close this thread on an upswing.

Mr. Steve called the day he shipped the kit. We spoke for around 35 minutes, and had a wonderful conversation.

Thanks to Steve Thornton and Dave Cowell, the Red Tiger can fly for YOU TOO! Expect a build log featured in a separate thread shortly.

Dave Cowell likes to communicate via email. He and I have sent a couple hundred Emails back and forth while I purchased kits from him, and moved kits to him for reproduction. We have never talked by phone. It just hasn't been necessary.

Steve shipped it to Dave of DPC Models/AeroWerkes a few days before Christmas. Dave got it shortly after Christmas  and has already digitized the kit.
By digitized, I mean that he has scanned the wood, instructions, box art and decals. Then the wood scans are digitally traced into plots for his laser-cutter. The plastics are used to make bucks that then get used for reproducing more plastics.

Dave emailed me a pre-release copy of his work. The scans look fabulous! I should have a kit in my hands shortly. I firmly believe this kit should be just as great as the Typhoon and FW-190 I got a while back (see above links).

Ok...details:
Dave called this one done and ready for sale. He cuts kits as they are ordered, so expect a short dely between order and production. I've ordered a half-dozen kits over  the last 18 months. Each one arrived within a week to 10 days. They all arrived loosely shrink-wrapped to a sheet of corrugated cardboard with all wood carefully packed, instructions, and cover-sheet of "box-art" visible, and the plastics snuggled into the corner of the package. All this is in another box. Leading and trailing edges are shipped in 1/2 lengths that need to be spliced together in order to keep the box length manageable.
Note that I sometimes just buy a new 36" long stick to beat the splicing part...but that is personal preference.

Dave's reproductions are faithful near-reproductions including a copy of the box art printed on a sheet of paper, laser-cut wood, full-size copy of instructions, and plastics. I say "near-reproductions" because there are some differences. The kit is furnished with rectangle or square stock for leading and trailing edges that need to be shaped and notched, plastics as appropriate (canopy, cowl, and in this instance...turtle-deck), plywood wheels,  bellcrank and control horn, and printed emblems to be glued on and clear-coated.
Things the buyer should be prepared to provide: engine(s), tissue, glue, paint, and basic hardware.
An example of Dave's work is here:
https://www.coxengineforum.com/t10629-dave-cowell-1-2a-scientific-sterling-comet-clones

Dave's contact info:
http://dpcmodels.homestead.com
Look for the SRK link/page to find the WWII planes and others. I think you'll find something you like!

And Thanks again to Steve Thornton!