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Hello, It's OK, i understand what you mean and you are wright. You do not have to take for granted what i said in my post but i really believe what the old man said because i knew him - he had very vivid memory till his death and i've spent much of my childhood and later talking to him about airplanes. The Mustang made a strong impression on him (as all the aircrafts that he encountered for that he became after the war an aircraft structural engineer). His comments about the Mustang were made in comparisson with the IAR-80 that was quite rough built, even sloppy - like "hit with t

Hello, 1.About the puttied panel lines on the P-51... After 23 Aug '44, the romanians briefly had some P-51b/c on their hands (see the story of "Bazu" Cantacuzino) and there was a mechanic who worked on them during those times - the "Dorothy II" and the "Sleepy Ann". As he was a neighbour of an aunt of mine, i got to ask him some years ago when i first heard the putty-wing thing, about the wings of the P-51: they were not puttied on both these two aircrafts. He said that the overral finish of the P-51 was very smooth and panel work was very carefully done with very fine panel joints. He als

Hello, What is the correct nose shape (upper cowling towards the prop spinner) for the Bf-109V1 D-IABI? The one from the MPM kit or the one from the Replicast kit? Many thanks, Eduard