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My P-51 Mustang is now complete. Kit is Accurate Miniatures spiced up with Eagle Strike Decals, Ultracast Early Mustang Seat, Exhausts and Wheels.

Thanks Holmes! Okay, this P-51 is now complete and ready to fly. Done and done!

A little further... Clear coat on, decals on, another clear coat on. Now I will apply a wash to the panel lines and details, apply matt coat and make some weathering. Should be done by next week.

Thanks guys. Holmes, I can't get credit for the seat or the seatbelts, all credit should be due to Ultracast for their superior product. (The only funny thing is I got this kit from a surplus discount sale and with the current $/Turkish Lira rate, the seat costs as much as I paid for the kit! :) ) I have made very small progress, but will probably get more done tomorrow. Will post an update when I get something done.

Taking advantage of the holidays, I managed to get the painting done. Topside is Gunze Sangyo H-52 Olive Drab, while the undersurfaces are H-53 Neutral Gray. The yellow ID bands are slighlty crooked, I made a small (1.5mm) error, so they are not symmetrical. I think I'll leave it as it is. Now onto gloss coat and the decals!

Hello everyone, I'll jump in the wagon with the Accurate Miniatures kit. I have been away from modelling for some months now as I was getting married and moving my house. This will be a come-back build for me. The Accurate Miniatures kit looks good at a first glance. To spice up things, I decided to use an Ultracast resin seat in the cockpit. The interiors were painted with Gunze's Zinc Chromate color. I also plan to add Ultracast exhausts and early style smooth wheels. After I mask the canopy, I will be ready to spray primer and then get the paint booth going. Next week is an offic

Is there a way to confirm this? I'll be building Accurate Miniatures P-51A kit and would like to avoid possible errors. One more question... The wings and the detail lines on them. For a P-51A, should these also be filled and sanded smooth? Lots of info out there for Bs and Cs, but I haven't seen proper information about As. The cover lines also are different compared to Bs and Cs, so I also can't decide where I should fill and where not. Sadly, the topic over in Props forum seems to have been deleted...

I think I'll join with an Accurate Miniatures P-51. My project for the Sharkmouth GB has stalled, maybe I can get this one done.

Thanks! So far it's more Eduard's photo-etch rather than my skill :) I think that issue is valid for all C-D-E kits and I'm prepared for a struggle. We'll see how that turns out. Right now I'm confused about the landing gear parts, the instructions are a little vague on how they should be installed and in order to give the landing gear their characteristic angle it seems I'll have to make several dry-fitting attempts.

Thanks Blunce! 2 weeks to go, then my happy single days will end (and I hope my happy married days will begin). Anyway, in between the spaces I could find I tried to make some progress. I had to repaint the pre-colored photo-etch and change the cockpit color to RLM02. The pilot's fiefdom: ...and copilot's area with lots and lots of machine gun ammo boxes. Wouldn't want to be in there if there was a fire. I assembled the cockpit and crammed it into the fuselage. The fuselage joins well to my relief. Then it was time to assemble the machine guns and the gun bay in the nose. Lots of pa

Wow, nice decals you got there! I wonder if they exist for 1/48 scale? Academy kits, especially the newer ones are very nice... BUT be careful, most of their decals are just waste.

Howdy folks! I finally managed to get my build going... I'm getting married within a month and life is very hectic at the moment. Anyway, this will be my build. My favorite Bf 110D liveries are the shark mouth and the huge wasps. This build will finally allow me to add one of them to my collection. Eduard's kit is nice, just too many parts. Anyway, it's better than Dragon's Bf 110D in that aspect, which even has more parts! I assembled cockpit parts to paint them all at once. Then, with some doubt I painted them RLM 66 per Eduard's instructions. Now it seems my instincts were right

Okay, sign me up with the 110D then :) I hope I can easily tackle this kit, it seems a bit over-engineered. We'll see what happens!

Okay, I'll definitely join this group build. I have three possible kits, but I don't know which one I'll build. My options: 1. 1/48 Eduard Bf 110D, with mottles and a big sharkmouth. 2. 1/72 Trumpeter F-105G with a sharkmouth, just received this today from a friend... only problem is the painting/decalling instructions are missing. 3. Hasegawa's 1/48 P-400 kit, it actually has two sharkmouth options in the kit, but the canopy is problematic... must find a vacuform replacement. Most possibly I'll start with the Eduard Bf 110D. May also build the F-105 along, as it will be easier to compl

Nice prizes out there! Charlie, thanks for organizing the raffle. However, if it's not a problem, I also would like to donate my prize back, so someone who can make better use of it can have them. I'm living in Turkey (increased postage for the sponsor), I don't have a kit to use the decals on and my stash is huge so I'm disinclined to buy new kits. It would be a waste to give those decals to me.

Charlie, I thank you for hosting this great group build. If it wasn't for this build, my kit would probably spend years in my stash and I wouldn't be able to build my first ever jet. Now I was able to build my first jet, my first Canadian aircraft and I had the opportunity to learn some new camouflaging tricks!

Thanks Charlie! I only wish that Hasegawa didn't screw up the decals by providing the wrong era maple leaves.

Hasegawa is to blame. Not only did they give the colors wrong in the instructions, but they also gave wrong decals! I didn't know it at the time and I was in a hurry to get the kit ready for a contest, so it will carry the wrong markings forever. Pity...

Updating my final photos. More photos in my own thread. The landing gears are a little bent as the model had a little accident on its way back home.

Here are the final photos now I'm back from the competition. This model couldn't get any prize, but I'm happy that I got first place in 1/72 scale World Aviation (Propeller) category with a Skyraider model. :)

Oh man... Don't tell me Hasegawa also gave wrong decals after that fiasco with the wrong color in the instructions! I was packing up the models for the show just now, so all I can say about the issue is... "Stop! Hammertime!" (and I'm hammersliding out of the door)

Approaching for landing... Photos were taken while the landing gears were still drying. I think I won't have time to take studio shots of the model, so these are what I have at the moment. I'm calling this project done. It was a fun project and enabled me to build my first jet. Thanks for organizing and running this group build!

Okay, it's past 2.30 am here locally, but I'm finally done! Sorry for the photos, I had to keep the model hanging since the landing gear hasn't cured yet and they start bending if I place the model on the ground. Tomorrow I can finally pack up and take it to the competition. Another model completed... maybe not up to the expectations I had, but it was a fun and teaching experience nevertheless.

First I sprayed on a gloss coat and let it cure. Then, realizing I had very limited amount of time left, I panicked. I started to apply the decals and things started falling apart. First of all, this plane has way too many stencils. Nearly every hatch, cover and movable plate has a stencil on it. Crazy! I estimated the decalling stage would take an hour max. It was more like 4 hours! And those big yellow crosses... Really ruined the day. They wrinkled and got torn. When all was well after using liberal amounts of Microsol and Microset, the model of course slipped through my hands... an

Thanks a lot for the comments! I learned about the scoop not being there for the Mk.5s, but it was a bit too late, the model was already painted. Since I'm rushing to complete it in two days to join a contest, I didn't have time to correct it. Of course, if it's disqualified as being inaccurate... well I can only say "fate" :) I used to build armor until last year, when I suddenly had this urge to build aircraft. This is I think my 6th a/c. I also liked the effect the multi-hue coloring gives, it certainly gives depth and a used look at the same time. I am trying to practice about its applic