I discovered an error with the Hasegawa kits when working on the landing gear.

Hasegawa has the inner main gear doors hanging wide open as seen here on the instructions:

But, in the real aircraft the look like this:

Hasegawa engineered slots in the lower wing into which tabs on the inner gear doors fit, but there result in the doors being wide open.

I cut these tabs off so I could mount the doors realistically, but the slot will still be visible.

So, at this late stage, I had to fill the slots with putty and I will have to repaint.

Quite some mistake by Hasegawa, Michael @michaelt
Good observation and it will look great once corrected.

While I have been building four more P-40s (https://imodeler.com/groups/work-in-progress-aircraft/forum/topic/four-more-p-40s/) these three have been on hold.

I have almost finished them, having weathered them, added exhaust staining, added 'iron' gun sights and pitot tubes, painted navigation lights and added aerial wires.

But, I haven't painted the canopies yet.

I started masking using Tamiya tape when I remembered that I had seen a tip on this site some time ago and purchased some Polymide Hi-Temp tape from a local electronics store.

So, I decided to give that a go. The great thing is, being transparent, you can easily see where to slice using a new scalpel blade.

The result looks like this.

We shall see how they go after painting...

G'day George (@gblair),
You are right, and I guess I'm taking a bit of a risk here.
We will see.

This tape seems very promissing, Michael @michaelt
Looking forward to the outcome.

The Polyamide tape did the job, my friend @michaelt!

These three look very good, Michael @michaelt. The Polyamide tape looks like it makes a difference in the canopies. I got some of the tape a while ago, but have never tried it.