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dancho · Posted: Sun 01 Nov 2009 22:39 pm Post subject: Hobby Boss 1/72 P-40B Windscreen

It had to happen sooner or later, I guess. The internet has failed me. I googled "Hobby Boss P-40B" and two of the top search results specified that the kit has a "strange error" regarding the windscreen. Supposedly, the windscreen should have framing and the Hobby Boss kit doesn't have it and this is a "strange error."

Well, I just accepted this and didn't pick up one of the Hobby Boss P-40B/C kits even though I want to build a collection of Flying Tigers and I'm not going to get it done with the old Academy or FROG kits... so, I was a little depressed about this "error."

Except that it's not an error. The P-40B/C had no framing on the outside. I did a search over at Hyperscale and found a couple of lengthy discussions on the topic. The final verdict was an emphatic NO FRAMES ON WINDSCREEN--just as the Hobby Boss kit depicts it. In fact, my current model of the P-40B, which is an Academy kit with a FROG windscreen-- now looks like it has, in fact, a "strange error."

The trouble is, the wrong information STILL shows up if you do a google search, and it has the makings of an urban legend-- wrong info that is going to be quoted and repeated over and over and over again.

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Loll · Posted: Mon 02 Nov 2009 00:25 am Post subject:

There you go Dancho A nice photo which appears to show that, exactly as you found out, elusive inside framing to the windshield HERE
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Softscience · Posted: Thu 12 Nov 2009 17:07 pm Post subject:

hmm. Their Mig-15 doesn't have windscreen framing either. I wonder if its for a similar reason
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