The Eduard (Mauve) kit has parts to build up the main gear wells, but only three sides. The upper wing has stiffener detail for the wheel well roof, but doesn't quite cover the whole of the wheel well so I added a thin sheet to cover the gap. This will have to be sanded to allow the fuselage parts to fit, though.
Similarly, the AMT and Hobbycraft (AMT) kits lower wings have three sides of the wheel well moulded on, but not the inner wall. I added some card here too, sitting on a slight slant with a carved out part to clear the wheel well opening, not accurate but close enough. The wings also have stiffener detail, but there is a circular part in the centre where the detail is not as deep, probably an ejection pin point. I left that as is.
I used part of a drop tank (from a Su-57) to extend the fuselage keel into the radiator area for the F and L kits and added a blanking plate in the nose. I'll paint the rear of the radiator on this. There is a bit more work required to extending the angled sides forward with more card.
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1. These angled sides need to be extended forward
The assembled nose will look like this, although I also need to add internal detail for the carburettor intake and fair it in at the rear.
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1. More internal detail for the carburettor intake required
This is the AMD P-40N cockpit with an Ultracast seat.
The next two are the AMT F and L cockpits with the seats and cut -down frames from the Airfix P-40C. The seats provided by AMT are the square topped ones that came into production with the P-40N. I have Eduard coloured etch seat belts for these two.