Mustang Build

from the top

no the best pic ..its smooth as a babys bottom

a view of the evergreen i used for backing of the exhaust fairing

with the fairing installed

5, nice progress. I need to learn how to use styrene as a filler.

I completed the PE for the oil tank. The instructions aren't the best so I kinda had to play it by ear.

Steve

opp,s double pic,s  

now im ready for the fun part of this hobby i like best......PAINT TIME!!!!

first the yellow then the white for the invasion strip,s 

tommaro i,ll share i how to do those uneven " sarg..you want me to paint his ship with ...AHH MOP!!!??...  .LOOK that i came up with . 

5-high cheer,s 

p.s special thanks to BVALLOT for helping me figure out how to post multiple pic,s in one thread

modelcrazy ..WOW!!! thats some great detail on bulkhead and oil tank ..good ear.

i,ll be happy to share modelcrazy about useing styrene as a filler with yaa

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Don't check my email for a weekend and it's packed with replies from this thread! Love to see how much life it still has

5-high - That mustang is looking sweet!

Steve - Great start on the Merlin! It's going to be a beauty!

lzdaily@comcast.net

Steve, The Merlin's looking good so far. What scale is that?

Sorry Larry, I just saw this post. It is 1/18 scale and solid resin. It weighs in scale what a real one would probably weigh.

Here's one of the rims. It's a bit sloppy due to 2 things. 1)my hand brushing skills are not the best, especially with fine detail & 2) the Duplicolor adhesion promoter prove to be a bit too aggressive of a chemical for the plastic that the rims were made out of. It ate away at the surface of the plastic. So it left a lot of excessive texture which shows in the paint. I couldn't Sand it out without messing the rims up further. But I am posting it anyway just to show an idea of what they are supposed to look like when they're done.

Also, no Pete. The color on those rims is Southern Pacific daylight red from Floquil's railroad line. 

Vallot,  that paint work is sick 

modelcrazy

Sorry Larry, I just saw this post. It is 1/18 scale and solid resin. It weighs in scale what a real one would probably weigh.

No worries. Solid resin, eh. It must weight a ton! I thought the oil tank looked good, that photoetch looks like it was probably a fiddly bunch of bits to get in place.

Well excessive texture or not, that color scheme looks great.

Like everyone else on the East Coast, I've had a bit of forced time off. Here's Ding Hao after a quick trip to the paint booth for olive drab over neutral gray with a white nose and ID stripes. Tomorrow I can spray a coat of Future, and then I can start decalling.

Larry

I just realized I never posted pics of my finished Stang.  Here she is in all her finished glory.  Tamiya's 1/72 P-51D, with Hasegawa decals (probably the only thing they got right).  Markings represent the IDF's Big Wing Squadron.  Started 4 Dec 2015 and finished on 19 Dec 2015.  Either the tailwheel got eaten by the carpet monster, or it's in a box somewhere around my worktable.

I kind of like the third picture best.

Cool Lebud! I've been intrestid in getting this one, did it build up OK? Too bad about the tailwheel. I hate it when that happens.

Steve

Thanx Steve 

Ding Hao has been back to the paint booth. Important lesson here. Keep reviewing your sources, even in the middle of building a model. I knew that at some point, the white ID stripe on the vertical tail on the P-51’s was painted over with olive drab. After all my research, I managed to come up with the idea the vertical tail stripe on Ding Hao had been painted over while it still had the standard P-51 canopy. This morning, though, I was looking over my source photos and something bugged me in what I saw. I finally realized what it was: every photo I have of Ding Hao with the standard canopy had the ID stripe, one with the Malcolm hood had the ID stripe, and all the rest with the Malcolm hood did not have the tail stripe. I did a little more research on line and, best I can tell, the ID stripe stayed on the aircraft until after it was fitted with the Malcolm hood. At least I caught it before clear coating and decalling.

Larry

Good catch.  We've all done something like that before.  I'm already looking at doing another TBF-1 Avenger again to redo the .30 MG on the left cowl that the pilot had.  They were erased in later editions and if you don't dig hard enough, you'll never hear of it.  Makes me so mad to do things like that. 

This looks like an easier fix! =D

bvallot,

It was a fairly easy fix.

Thanks for posting the pics of the lights you made from stretched sprue. Have you ever attempted replacing the teardrop shaped nav lights on a Mustang?

Larry

You know...I haven't yet.  I'd have to reference a few photos to see how they're set up. Different variants may have updated how they looked.  Some times you have to be careful not to utilize a modern photo that's using something modern.  Either way it's the same set up.

What I'd do for a tear drop shape is create the overall width I need and file it down to the tear drop shape.  I did this for a signal light on the P-40B I completed a while back.  It can be a bit tedious as it's so small.  The trick is to leave attached to the sprue so you have a solid piece to grab.  Smooth and polish until you're satisfied, then clip and work the bottom shape to suit what you need.  Not too much to it.  Just be patient.  If the carpet monster grabs it...screw it.  Just make another.  It's not too hard to do. =]

Trust me.  It's not worth the grief. =]

There is some great builds here.  Time for mine. Both in 72nd scale

Hasegawa P-51B done up as Hell-er Bust

And the Airfix P-51D done as Nooky Nooky

Thanks for looking. John

John, That is so cute! After looking at 1/32 and 1/48 Mustangs, a 1/72 looks so tiny.

WOW THAT'S TINY JOHN . I HAVEN'T TOUCHED THAT SCALE SINCE I WAS IN MY TEENS ...GREAT JOB ON THAT TINY LITTLE  INSTRUMENT PANEL 

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Steve, excellent job on Moonbeam. The base and figures look great, too.

John, great work on those 1/72 scale Mustangs. The detail on the IP looks really good.

Larry

Great job Steve! I really like the way everything ties together to tell a maintenance story! Nicely done!

George

That's some seriously awesome work Steve!

Hey guys, I know I'm taking my time with the most things that I am building so in the meantime I took it upon myself to build a p-51 C Mustang on my phone. Is it alright to post the pictures of that here?  Please do note that the paint job is just something I threw together it is not an authentic paint job.

On your phone? That's intresting, I'd like to see that.

K