**** DONE: GB-64 1/72 P-51 Mustang Mk.III - One Trick Pony
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Nice advertisement for AK paints!
fubar57
General
Looking good
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Coming along nicely Sergio. 
Nicely done so far!
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It's not because of the ad, it's because they've been friends for a long time. I've known Miguel (Mig) since high school when we went to the same class in different classes. I was into basketball and he was into school, so I went to the "B" class while he went from "A" to "C" class. But during the playground and in the cafeteria we were always talking about WWII... When AK opened in Logroño, he invited me to the opening and I prefer to advertise AK than HP...
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With this bad weather I couldn't start working in the garden for the summer vegetable patch, so I started using the airbrush and I added the colors. The photos didn't come out well so I only have the photos left after the gloss varnish for the decals that are curing again after seeing that the first layer of varnish didn't turn out as good as it should have and as wotjek said, they are already broken from the factory and would disintegrate...
fubar57
General
Looking good
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Looks good Sergio, nice bit of shine on it.
Good work so far!
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Hello good friend, I understand that this is to check that the lines are drawn where they correspond, hence the measurements, here I put the measurements that are given with the vernier caliper (horizontal caliper) so that the measurement is more exact. I hope you tell me what you think and if I have to change them because they are out of dimensions, before continuing with the process, retouching the paint is easier than repairing decals.
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This time I was away for reasons that are already known, you can't even imagine how much I missed this joy that you bring with your comments... I laugh a lot... it has so much shine that you can't see that it's a mustang!!! hahaha
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George, a very good friend... you are the one who sees everything in a good light... always so kind.
Oh yes ... you painted the bands on the wings and the tail alomost fine. The differences are because of the dimensions you used. The orginal strips were of the 18 inches on the tail and the 15 inches on the wings. Because we don't use the measurment system I converted it into the decimal one and put them into the 1:72 scale. So the band width should be 18" - 45,7cm - 6,35 mm (~6,4mm) and the 15" - 38,1cm - 5,29mm (~5,3mm). The tail strips were painted 83,8cm from the stabilizer tip what is about 1,16cm ( 11,6mm) for the 1:72 scale while the wing strips were applied 38,1cm ( 15") (~5,3mm for the 1:72 scale ) from the line made by the outlets of the exhaust pipes but not from the fuselage or the wing root there.
In other words,
the tail bands are slightly too narrow 6,12mm while it should be 6,4mm. The distance from the stabilizer tip to the band should be 11,6mm but there is the 13,34mm.
the wing bands ... seem to be too wide. The 6.29mm fits rather the 18" but not the 15" (~5,3mm in 1:72).
However the differences in the width and locations may be not worth to limp through. I would leave them as these are.
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It's a pleasure to present your work this way, you learn and improve with each job... Thank you very much, I value and appreciate your appreciation and value very much. Also, the advice you give about leaving it at 2mm from the edge on the aileron and a little less than 1mm wide on the wings. As I plan to repeat it at 1/48, I assure you that this is already reflected in the file on the plane when I start the new one.
Lovely work so far!
Doing a good job there Sergio.
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thanks boys....
the issue of placing decals... the ones from the kit, even with ceramic varnish on top and microscale decal fix, broke at the first opportunity and are useless.
To solve this, I searched among the leftover ones that I have and found the same size for all of them except for the SS and the ones on the upper part of the wings, so I painted them by hand...
Now my question is, what blue do you recommend? I've been looking on the internet (in my notes the colour says it's h328, very similar to RAL5000), but I don't see it as I show in the photos. It looks more violet than normal compared to the decals, and it doesn't fit. So do you recommend any other colour? What does RLM23, which is RAL 5009, look like?
the issue of placing decals... the ones from the kit, even with ceramic varnish on top and microscale decal fix, broke at the first opportunity and are useless.
Now my question is, what blue do you recommend? I've been looking on the internet (in my notes the colour says it's h328, very similar to RAL5000), but I don't see it as I show in the photos. It looks more violet than normal compared to the decals, and it doesn't fit. So do you recommend any other colour? What does RLM23, which is RAL 5009, look like?
le_steph40
Chief Master Sergeant
RAF roundel blue is often given as close to FS25056; RLM24 is an option and US Insignia blue too. RAL5009 a little too light IMHO
