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                        P51C Mustang colour

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                        Johnnai
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Canada
                        P51C Mustang colour
                        Posted by Johnnai on Sunday, February 1, 2004 11:34 AM
                        Hi All!

                        First time poster here at FSM. I build mostly automotive models but I like to take a break from time to time.

                        A near future project is a 1/72 NA P51C mustang as flown by the Tuskagee Airmen in WW2. My question is: Were their Mustangs natural metal or painted silver?

                        Thanks in Advance!

                        John K. Dezan
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                        BlackWolf3945
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Pominville, NY
                        Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Sunday, February 1, 2004 11:51 AM
                        Pretty much every Mustang that left the factory without camo had a natural metal fuselage and tailplanes with wings finished almost completely in duraluminum. Also, if you want to model a Mustang accurately most of the panel lines in the wings would have to be filled in, but that's a matter of preference and a whole other story... Tongue [:P]


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                        Johnnai
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Canada
                        Posted by Johnnai on Sunday, February 1, 2004 11:57 AM
                        Thanks!

                        Just what I needed to hear. An natural metal finish. Never done one of them before.
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                        Melgyver
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Lafayette, LA
                        Posted by Melgyver on Sunday, February 1, 2004 12:17 PM
                        If you have access to Squadron's In Action on the Mustang there is a factory shot of some D's with wings painted in primer before being sprayed silver. They had fabric covered rudders and and the earlier ones had fabric covered elevators. The ones in the picture appear to be aluminum. So natural aluminum fuselage and painted wings and tail feathers. Note the flaps and ailerons are natural aluminum.

                        Clear Left!

                        Mel

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                        nmayhew
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Kent, England
                        Posted by nmayhew on Sunday, February 1, 2004 12:54 PM
                        looks like the guys have got you covered Johnnai, but welcome to the forums anyway.
                        Sign - Welcome [#welcome]
                        be sure to post some pics of your mustang when finished if you can!
                        regards,
                        nick
                        Kind regards, Nicholas
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