**** DONE: GB-43 1:48 P-51D - Aces' Aircraft of all Eras

[fubar57]

Thank you, sirs. As promised....hours ago, the innards.

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Seat isn't attached yet

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As did Andy, I deviated from the instructions and attached the sidewalls to the fuselage instead of the floor. I used tube glue and once it started to set I dry-fit the floor to make sure it all lined up properly

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I still have to paint the intake and the tail wheel interior before closing this up

 

[Wurger]

 

[N4521U]

Now that Is looking good.

 

[Wayne Little]

Yep, done good George.!

 

[Crimea_River]

Likin' it.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks all. Done for another week. Packing day, camp bus in 2hrs. I was going over the photos in the above post and two things struck me, I missed two areas of paint. The top arrow shows an area where I'm currently struggling with an airbrush; turbulence preventing paint from going into tight areas. The second arrow is just me not paying attention. These are now corrected.

 

[N4521U]

Attention to the little details........ awsome.

 

[rochie]

Really nice Geo

 

[fubar57]

Thank you

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

That's the value, and sometimes downside, of close up pics.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[fubar57]

One of the final steps before closing up the fuselage is to install part B3 onto slots in the radiator opening; 4mm of potential ping. I did this using my girlie pencil and went smoother than expected. I wasn't going to tempt fate trying to clean up the attachment point so its facing to the rear. A few more parts/paint and I can close it up.

 

[fubar57]

Just lost power to the Northern half of the province, no more modelin'

 

[fubar57]

Apparently the power was almost province wide. My son said an explosion occurred at or near a mill in PG and No. #1 daughter said it was a transformer so probably a combination of both. Almost an hour of data abused.........

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff......had a Ping moment myself yesterday....

 

[Crimea_River]

News saying it was a lightning strike knocking out power to 120K people. Hope you're back soon Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Back at it Andy. If you ignore the panic on Facebook, power was out from Quesnel north and west to at least Houston. As you said, Hydro is guessing lightning. I was down for an hour, thankfully it never interrupted cell service Spent some time fiddling around with part A2, shown in the post above. It wasn't until I looked at your build that it made sense.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far George!