Ah reckon now we done got each'n ever'won'a ya'll down on record 'fer this shindig...
Grenadier, is your RAF Stang an Allison or a Merlin-engined variant? Which kit?
Lawrence, you could always pull one'a them Stangs outta the stable and at least exercise 'em some...
Wibhi, thanks for posting the drawings. I'll be posting some P-51 images as well as some links. But I dunno if I'm gonna post 'em here , or post 'em in a separate thread with a link here...
Vintage, you're now on the list. I wasn't totally sure if you had given a yay or nay and which one you were gonna do...
Yeehah, you can take Van Outen and Bullock, I'll take Ashley Judd... Grrwwwllllllll.....
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Anyhoo, I've added you to the list and put 'ya down 'fer the Airfix kit. If'n when you getcher Tamiya Pony, lemmee know...
Adam, lookin' good on that pit. I think yours were the first official progress photos in the thread...
Thanks for the compliment on the Blue-nose Stang. 'Twas a model which I got built but unpainted from a friend and it wasn't put together too well; so I took it apart, re-did the cockpit a bit and then slapped 'er back together.
I decided to use it as a testbed and have tried out a few things including:
Those are Squadron Fast-Frames on the canopy. They worked like a charm on this model. On two subsequent projects the results were progressively more disappointing... (Hobbycraft P-40C & Tamiya Bf 109E)
This was the first time I used Parafilm to mask something like the blue nose on this Stang. I'd used it for other types of masking which involved simply wrapping the stuff around a part or some such, but this was my first experience using it to mask a broad area.
I was really rather horrified when the stuff lifted right up in the middle of spraying the blue; it kinda fluttered up and down offa the surface for almost the entire painting session. But guess what? Absolutely NO underspray. NONE. I was shocked. To this day, the blue on that Stang is the cleanest masked line I've ever done...
Uhhh... oh, an impromptu experiment... I had planned to put different markings on this one; was gonna be Preddy's 'Cripes A 'Mighty 3rd', but I had an OLD (as in ANCIENT) Microscale sheet. It was one of the original issues from when they still packaged 'em in bags.
Anyhoo, the decals were so old that the first decal just shattered when I went to slide it off the paper. So I then went to a quick Plan-B and used the markings for Meyer's 'Petie 2nd', from the same sheet. But I coated each decal with Micro Superfilm (now known as Decal Film in a Bottle, I think) before cutting 'em off the sheet. Had no further problems...
I also messed around with trying different methods of getting a bare metal finish. What you see on that model is a combination of the old Monogram-Humbrol Polished Aluminum (buffable) and plain-jane Testors Silver outta the little square bottles. Mostly it's Testors, though.
I painted certain panels gloss black before putting any of the silver on and then tried different methods of applying the paint as well as buffing it once dry. Can't remember all of what I did, but I know I wasn't too happy with much of it...
I think there were some other things I tried out, but can't recall at the moment.
Anyhoo, if anyone else wants to post photos of past Mustang builds, feel free. It all serves as a bit of inspiration...
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