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After staring at the same six projects that have been on my shelf for almost three months, I decided I wanted to get something done. My friend had recently given me a stack of kits he got at a show, and this was one of them. I cracked it out, and banged the thing out in a week and a half. It was finally some fun modelling again. The kit, especially given it's age and scale, was very well detailed. I really liked that Tamiya included seatbelt decals- I don't usually like them, since I've mostly switched over to 1/48 scale, but at 1/72, the obvious 'thinness' isn't really a problem. Only thing I would change on her- I wish I had gone back and polished the gloss coat before strapping everything on. With the rockets and stuff, it is too late to do it now, and I just know it could have been much shinier. Thanks for looking!
-TheWaggishAmerican
I didn't get any good pictures of the cockpit through the canopy, so I included a couple of shots from construction. I got all this done in about a day, and had a ton of fun doing it. It's my first time giving drybrushing a real shake, and it's by far my favorite technique.
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On the Bench- Tamiya 1/48 Raiden, Rufe, Buffalo, He 162; Academy 1/72 F-89, Eduard 1/48 F6F-3, Accurate Miniatures 1/48 F3F-2, Minicraft 1/48 XF5F, Academy 1/35 Hetzer, Zvezda 1/35 KV-2 (Girls Und Panzer)
Clint
Excellent Mustang. Don't worry about being shinier. Actually they were 5-6 year old aircraft from the 1944 Fiscal Year and getting reclaimed from storage and ANG units for use in Korea.
WIP: Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo
Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea
Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group
richs26 Excellent Mustang. Don't worry about being shinier. Actually they were 5-6 year old aircraft from the 1944 Fiscal Year and getting reclaimed from storage and ANG units for use in Korea.
That's interesting- I wonder why they didn't pull some P-47's from storage? From what little I've read, these things didn't fair too well. If they were so desperate for a ground attack platform, why not use the thing that was basically built for it?
mississippivolLooks great! Is that an Alclad finish?
No, though I do have some Alclad's to practice with in the future. It's actually just Vallejo's Acrylic Silver and Tamiya Gloss.
Great build in such a short time!
Your friend Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
Looks great! Very nice little plane. 1:72 sure keeps your fingers in shape :-)
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
The Mustangs were stationed in Japan at the time, at least the first ones to go there. A lot of the P-47's which I agree would have fared better had already been sold to foreign air forces or scrapped.
John
To see build logs for my models: http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html
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