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Brady? MVP? Who chooses this and were they watching the same game I did. Julian Edelman should have been.....

Thank you for the very kind comments! I do like the idea of using undercoats to create varying shades and sheens of the aluminum skin. I am not having real good luck masking the Alclad. No matter how much I detack the tape I seem to have problems with minor blemishes left on the Alclad....minor so far, but they are there. So creating different looks with the undercoats really keeps the masking to a minimum. That said I did mask and paint the ETO wing bands.

Not CO2, but I pulled out of retirement from my racing days, one of these. I have been using it for the past few weeks, and I love it. Plumbed a regulator in it, and if need be I can put an inline water trap....so far havent needed it at all. I can spray several colors on one filling, and when it gets low, just head to the garage and refill. My garage/shop compressor has a big tank and will fill this probably 6 times before ever having to flip the compressor on. I was contemplating doing something along CO2, when I remembered about my old racing tank.

HOLMES!!!!!! Thank you for the great comment. & Joel, thank you as well for the look and the compliment. I am more and more impressed with this little old kit. Its no Tamiya, but for a quick build that looks the part, it surely fits the bill. Its biggest downfall for the type of build I am doing is the fitment of the landing gear doors. Both the main and tail gear doors are made to swing open and close with the action of the landing gear when built OOB. To facilitate that they are made with quite substantial gaps and large hinges that protrude from the fuselage. For this build I

That is some amazing paint work. Great job on the fading.

And after some drying time, Ive applied the wing roundels, and OD glare shield paint. The area around the exhausts it coated with 115 Stainless Steel. And this is where things stand right now. I have a couple of stalled out 1/24 Mustangs, and this is to get the old modeling mojo back, and also in preparation for doing natural metal finishes on those builds. With any luck, the bigger scale will allow this to look even better. So far pretty happy with the outcome. Thanks for looking in, and hope for a few more updates over the next few days.

More photos and progress... Nearly ready to start buttoning up the wings and fuselage. All closed up and nearly ready to start figuring out the paint work. Also I have made a stand that will put the plane in flight and in a left bank. Also thought I would try a technique of masking off some stripes to simulate the fabric on the rudder and elevators. So, to progress with my getting familiar with Alclad, I thought I would paint a test panel using different types of basecoats and some of the different shades of Alclad. I used some black and grey sandable primer, some gloss black and g

...Seems I posted this in the wrong spot previously... Well its been a long time since I have posted here, but I have been trudging away on a build that I thought I would share here. The kit is the ancient Monogram F-51D. Its the same kit as the clear Phantom Mustang minus the stand and all its innerworkings. The kit still retains its movable landing gear, and releasing bombs. The kit is also fitted with the Hamilton Standard cuffless propeller. For my build I thought I would back date the aircraft to a WW2 P-51D-5NA, and build it as a very early D with no dorsal fin fillet. Also put it

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Finished up!!!!! Display Case for more completed photos....LINK

Just finished this up. First RAF aircraft for me, and first time using a gloss coat prior to applying decals. Here is the build thread. LINK Thanks for looking in....

Update as this is done. Thanks for looking in. I really like these Airfix kits, even with all of their problems, and they look great on the shelf. First time using a gloss coat prior to decaling. Decals done and cleared with Testors Dull-coat. Finalizing up the cockpit. Landing gear done, next up is gun bays and a few more detail.

Finally drug this ol' Mustang out, and plastered some paint on it...