352nd Fighter Group "Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney" Build

[B-17engineer]

Ok thanks will look..

 

[B-17engineer]

Alright its not perfect but its getting there. I thought I had gotten the tailplanes and the fin fillet sanded...obviously not. The pictures show so no need to tell me

The bottom me gots to work on the air intake....

 

[Wayne Little]

Keep chippin' away Harrison...

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Wayne!

 

[Lucky13]

Looking great H!

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks

This morning ran putty over some areas, sanded, sanded, sanded, sanded, and using felt polished it.

 

[Airframes]

It's getting there H. You've now found out that all sanding, joints etc have to be absolutely perfect if using a metal finish! It's a b*gg*r, as even when you think it must be perfectly smooth after all the sanding and polishing, there's nearly always at least one area which shows the tiniest blemish.

 

[B-17engineer]

Yeah but its not too bad just sand a bit.

Ran out of paint...wondering how long it'll be till I can get more...

 

[B-17engineer]

Grrrrrr tail wheel broke off...

 

[Wayne Little]

Ooops!....

 

[B-17engineer]

Atleast it didnt get eaten!

Just been sanding, filling, sanding, polishing, sanding, filling, filling, sanding, filling, polishing different joints....

 

[Crimea_River]

Fill, sand, fill, sand, prime paint, then fill, sand.....

Patience my friend!

 

[magnu]

Don't panic about the tail wheel H. Had this happen to mine so what I did was to drill out a hole in the wheel and the support then bent a piece of wire to the appropriate shape and super glued it in place.

 

[B-17engineer]

Right!

 

[Crimea_River]

Same happened to me. Same solution.

 

[B-17engineer]

Great minds think a like!

 

[Airframes]

Same here, on at least three Mustangs, in different scales. Drill, cut a paperclip, superglue, sorted!
Seems to be a design feature of all P51 kits....probably to test the modellers skills!!

 

[B-17engineer]

Nice!

 

[Maglar]

Gettin' there..

 

[hawkeye2an]

Patience Harrison, I've had many times when I thought I had everything sanded real well, then you put on a coat of paint and have to sand again.....and again..........and..........again. I had one kit that I repeated the process 8 TIMES before I got it right !!!!!

Hang in there friend,

Andy