1/32 Tamiya P-51D-5 "Little Eva III"

[Builder 2010]

This is going to be wonderful build! I love Mustangs, love 1:32 aircraft and love modelers who go the extra kilometers to do a museum-level job.

 

[N4521U]

Stumbled across your build. You are doing some amazing detailing.
I'll be following to see how I could have improved my 1/32nd Tamiya "D".
Well, both of them.

 

[BertUS]

I like your built, very nice, very clean, love it

 

[zaxos345]

Good morning gents,
Took me some time to update my topic, i work slowly, you see, hot summer time here!!

I started putting some paint on the cockpit...
Here you can see the rubber effect on the fuel tank....





I chipped the floor under pilots feet and placed the IP to see how it looks..





Side panels...







pilot's seat...







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[zaxos345]

radio and battery...here i cut the barracunda offering regarding the cables and made my own ones as Chuck and Antonio suggested...



gloss coat, decals and placing various detail items...











weathering, for this i used, oilbrushers and modellers oil washes!!! I really recommend the latter, they smell like cologne, they are already thinned and if you want to use them as filters you can use their thinner, also smells like cologne!!! I have three of them, industrial dirt, one of the best shades i have ever used on oils (maybe you dont need anything else for panel washes as well as general dirt), dust and a black brown shade and I am covered!!!!
I also used some silver pencils for chipping....
The final varnish is Mrp matt one, really nice and smooth outcome and not dead flat!!!








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[Wurger]

 

[zaxos345]

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I decided to scrach build the floodlights...tendious work, so tiny!!!!









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[zaxos345]

And finally the pilot's seat belts!! I used the hgw fabric ones but with the airscale's instructions as the hgw ones are not the correct ones for the job
Hgw..













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[zaxos345]

And some ones before closing the fuselage, i forgot to take some photoes of the starboard side hehehe













Hope you like it,

John

 

[Airframes]

Very nice work !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Beautiful detail and highlighting.

 

[zaxos345]

Thanks a lot guys!!!

John

 

[Wayne Little]

Yep....fantastic is the word....!

 

[Wurger]

Nicely done so far.

 

[Snautzer01]

Very nice.

 

[Crimea_River]

What a pleasure to view such stunning work. Thanks for the tip on the weathering John. I've not seen those products here but will look. I'm not a fan of the aggressive Tamiya washes.

 

[zaxos345]

Really appreciate the comments guys!!
Andy, those oil washes come from Poland

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I bought them from a retailer here in Greece , dont know if they ship to Canada!!

John

 

[N4521U]

Having done two of these, you have done stellar work on that cockpit!

 

[SaparotRob]

Amazing work!

 

[zaxos345]

Thanks a lot guys,
Some fresh ones, i have closed the fuselage....









And i have started sanding the raised screw fasteners in front of the windscreen. I am going to do the same everywhere on the fuselage!!



I will also delete the hydraulic fluid access door in front of the windscreen as i should not be there for a D-5!!
More to the next update!!

John