GB-64 1/48 P-51D ( II ) - One Trick Pony (3 Viewers)

[Jock Tamson]

Agreed looking good!

 

[fubar57]

Thank you gentlemen. Fuselage stripe applied. I knew this would be a battle as it is one piece and has to fit around the tail wheel gear doors and up on the dorsal fin. From past experience I know that, even though these decals are fairly hardy, they will tear after a bit of abuse. I decided to cut the decal in half and apply them both at the same time and probably took a little more than five minutes before I was happy. I would have painted them but I'm trying to push this one through

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Note that its a different colour of red. Not sure why as it is printed between the red checkers....c'est la vie

 

[Crimea_River]

Happy the stripes behaved.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Andy. Back to the fuel filler caps. I used my Shadow circle cutter and using a badly aligned Hobbycraft decal sheet, I cut out three 2.5mm circles

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Two more stars and bars, nose art and then I can put on some stencils. Hopefully wrapped up this weekend; PG tomorrow though so that's a bit of a write off

 

[Jock Tamson]

I'm liking it George, it's going to be a stunner.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Greg

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That has come out looking real nice George and good thinking with the filler caps.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Vic. More decals. Ignore any faults you may see; I'm trying to burn through this

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I was looking at the scoreboard, comparing it to the three photos I have of this area and checking it with the decal placement sheet. Lifelike have made an error here as the photos show the top forward part of the scroll is on the O.D., not a problem, I'll just move it up. Also in the photos, two of the photos show a hole in the scoreboard that lines up with the hole in the fuselage and one shows no hole. My decal has no hole, so be it. The area between the checkers and nose-art shows staining and no staining; I went in the middle. Finally, one photo shows the wing as glossy, that ain't gonna happen now. Moving to the landing gear covers. It looks like the inner lip is a different color than NMF/silver. Note the attachment looks silver. However....in the color photo, with Gentile out of the way, the attachment now has color. Imma just trying to figure this out, sorry for the long read

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[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Three more decals on this side though you can't see one; its the red and white stripe continuing onto the rear landing gear doors. The scoreboard has to be a little higher than the photos. If I angle it to be a bit lower under the canopy, the writing would have been crooked as it is a one piece decal.