The P-51"mustang" Group Build. 2008

Well here's my finished one.

Thanks Jeff, no rush we pretty much have another year.

Yeah, I didn't forget about this GB.

Just been really busy trying to get my house ready to sell. I'm closing on a new home July 31st and we really need to get the one we are in now sold. Between work and the commute (140 miles round trip), I'm gone around 12 hours a day and as soon as I get home, I'm handed a new "Honey-Do" list. The weekends are even worse...

Oh, and I have a baby due in August so my wife really can't much. (I won't let her lift anything) 

I am actually part of like 5 Group Builds at the moment. I'm seriously considering pulling out of all but this one and the Corsair GB since I am like 75% on my Mustang and around 25% on my Corsair. All others are unstarted.

I have made a little progress and will post pics soon.

Regards,

Jeff 

I'll jump in, it'll give a chance to use up some 357 FG decals that I bought for a club build a couple of years ago.  It's amazing how 20.00 worth of decals can make me buy 100.00 worth of kits.

Thanks Arki, glad someone is still here, seems like you and Dupes are the only left.

Hi Andrew,

Put me down for an Academy 1/72 P-51B in Old Crow markings.

Brian

I'm here...just not building yet.

Seriously, in the future, you should try a shorter span for each GB. While you do get more people in over a longer period of time, you also have verrrrrry long stretches of nothing.

Heres my progress,seams filled bottom painted. Although I may be talking to myself, thats fine.

Hi all,

I've not forgotten this build, but the kit I ordered hasn't arrived from Hong Kong yet! The decals arrived three weeks ago. GRRR. I'll be patient, there's plenty of time, and I have a pressing Tiger I for Big Cats. On the other hand, it's an excuse to dig out a Hasegawa -D in Israeli '48 markings from my stash...

Some nice builds here!!!

Cheers,

TB379

raptordriver wrote:

Great stang are you building another one? If so that would be awsome. Kg Thanks for posting more pics.

I dunno-I am still recovering from breaking my right shoulder socket, so I still have to go easy on that arm-I can't do the long hours of steady brushing, spraying, etc., like I used to.-but Iam working on it!

I was hoping someone would like this one meanwhile.

Eventually, I was thinking of an doing an AM-Tech P-51A as maybe an A-36A Apache, but that was for later on.

Tom

Great stang are you building another one? If so that would be awsome.

Kg Thanks for posting more pics.

Would this be a good one for this group build?

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I finally got my photography in order after finishing this one

It's  1/32 scale Hasegawa.

Tom

Can't say I've ever seen a captured Mustang scheme before...very cool.

Always interesting to see something a bit out of the ordinary! 

Great job! the silver looks fine to me. I too would like to see more pics then
I will post on the roster.

Okay, I've completed my GB Mustang.  I'm not happy with it to say the least.  I messed up while painting and didn't do a real good job trying to fix it.  I don't like metal finish, I'll stick to camo.  This is an old Monogram kit so the worse the paint got, the less lines you could see.  I have 2 pics.  I also got a Tamiya P-51B and did the same Mustang in it's final paint scheme with Zirkus Rosarius.  This one came out a lot better and the quality of the kit really helped with some detailing.  it wasn't in the GB but I wantd to show you with the other one.  Thanks for looking and participating in the P-51 GB.  Chris

sorry, kind of fuzzy.

Hey all,

I haven't forgoten the Build, just been a little busy and frustrated. I have so many problems with the landing gear that I wanted to fly that thing into the wall more than once. It's a Tamiya kit, so I know the mistakes are on my end. Since the tail wheel flaps are molded to the fuesalage, that will involve even more work. Anyway, I took the landing gear apart today and decided to button 'er up and make an in flight configeration. I'll just hang it from my son's ceiling. That, and I really am not liking the whole yellow nose thing. I'm gonna mask half of it off and re-paint to see how it looks. I'll post pics tomorrow hopefully.

Regards,

Jeff 

Well I decided I would start today, here it is.

This is one of my most detailed interiors. I only have a fat brush but I have steady hands so most of the time it works out.

 I think I'm in the same boat,because I got the cockpit almost done & I stalled for now.

 I still want to get it painted by the end of the summer,early fall. 

 Frank 

dupes wrote:

This IS one of the consequences of an extremely looooong GB duration, sadly.

Agreed.  Although, ironically enough, it's saving my bacon right now 'cause I just can't get to the P-51 yet! 

I haven't gone anywhere...just working down the pile of builds to get to the Mustang.

This IS one of the consequences of an extremely looooong GB duration, sadly.