**** DONE: GB-64 1/48 P-51D ( I ) - One Trick Pony

[rochie]

Great job Geo

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far George!

 

[T Bolt]

Looking great George

 

[fubar57]

Thanks all. Started on tother side, from the wing tip in. First decal went on smoothly, a bit of tenting to be dealt with. Disaster with the second one. The front folded over on itself and broke into several pieces, about a cm from the leading edge. I was anticipating something would happen so I already had several photo copies of the decal sheet with stripes. At the bottom you can see a long green bar which I'm assuming is for such an event. So, I take the photocopy and cut out above the white bar. I then laid it on the long green bar and cut around the copy with a hobby knife

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I laid the spare piece on top of the ruined decal, about 4mm north of the yellow bar. I was worried about a ridge from the two pieces overlapping but you can't even tell where the fix was

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Good recovery and forward thinking.

 

[Viking1066]

Awesome repair job! Can't even tell where it was.

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

Good fix George

 

[Crimea_River]

Some great foresight and ability there Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys. The hard part is done....for the wings. Two more for the stripes at the bottom and a few stencils. Then its time to attack the multi-part fuselage and tail section decals

 

[Viking1066]

Intense decals, nerve wracking as the one I have as my profile.

 

[Donivanp]

Very cool!

 

[fubar57]

Thank you. This is where the whole project may go sideways. Four decals need to be butted together on the horizontal tail surfaces. I cut out the tail end piece of the copy to get a feel for the fit but it seemed to ride to high (1) so I thought I would start at the outside edge and work in. The third piece lined up perfectly with the joint line. Now comes the possible problem. The decal that is represented by the piece I cut out needs to lay flush on the stab and the fuselage and bend at (2). I'm beginning to understand the big bar of green

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

This is where we sit so far

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As I did with the left wing, I'm going to gloss coat the right wing before I go any further to prevent damage to the decals during handling. There was a lesson learned here

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I think your doing marvelously and it's looking so good.

 

[SaparotRob]

Great stuff! Looking good.

 

[Donivanp]

Simply incredible!

 

[Viking1066]

Outstanding George!!