martin_sam_2000 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Here are a few of my latest. I went on a P-51 kick and this is one of four that I have built. This is the Tamiya RAF P-51B/C, which I built back in about 1997ish and was my first kit that I attempted to built using high level techniques(drybrushing, weathering, proper colours...etc). A few years later, I used it as a test bed for airbrushing, and it didnt turn out too good and was relegated to the spares bin. About a year or so ago, I had the idea to make a twin seat P-51 and I started the rough work to accomplish this. It was quickly put aside. When I decide to build all my P-51 kits, this kit was dug out of the black whole of the spares box and was inventoried. I was missing the flaps, one H. Stab, the gear doors, the propeller blades, the landing gear, the canopies, the under nose intake front and the upper cowling. The upper cowling and the intake front were made from an F-18 drop tank half; the canopies, propeller blades, landing gear and doors came from the spares bin, the H.stab was cut down from what I THINK was an A-37's from the spare bin; and the flaps I built from sheet styrene. A lot of the previous paints and decals were still visible after stripping and I did my best to and them smooth. My initial cuts for the second canopy were too far back and I had to rebuild a good portion of the rear spine. The paints are what I believe would have been found laying around an air base, some bright red trim and the main blue is lightened insignia blue. Decals came from left over P-51 sheets I had laying around. It is not perfect, but it looks good in the dark, back corner of my P-51 shelf. thanks for looking, Sean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
streetstream Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Nice build. Makes me want to start my 1/72 mustang B. I've always liked the b and c more than the d version. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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