**** DONE: GB-64 1/72 P-51B - One Trick Pony

[fubar57]

Beauty. Something I found out recently from an WW2 aviation author and aircraft restorer on another site. The propeller marking sometimes disappeared or fragmented; they were after all just decals. On my last GB P-51, a photo show a couple were offset and one of the yellow spec. markings weren't complete.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice work Grant.

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Wurger]

 

[A4K]

Very nice Graham

 

[destrozas]

nice work paint and decals.... very good

 

[Bustedwing]

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Beauty. Something I found out recently from an WW2 aviation author and aircraft restorer on another site. The propeller marking sometimes disappeared or fragmented; they were after all just decals. On my last GB P-51, a photo show a couple were offset and one of the yellow spec. markings weren't complete.

I thought about that but the prop just looked goofy with one misplaced decal. Quite few pictures I noticed the decals on the real thing missing.

 

[Gnomey]

Looks good so far!

 

[Wayne Little]

That's looking good...

 

[Crimea_River]

Love the scheme and you're doing it justice Graham.

 

[Bustedwing]

Love the scheme and you're doing it justice Graham.

Thanks, kind of a pain to mask but I'm pretty happy with it. The last few group builds kind of forced me away from my usual Luftwaffe kits. Nice to try something different !

 

[Bustedwing]

Prop with the Luftwaffe Hamilton Standard decals. The landing gear bits. I only noticed now that I forgot to drill the holes for the bomb racks so probably no bombs or drop tanks. I tried shining a very bright light through the wing to see if they would show up but no. Not sure if I'll bother with the last of the stencils either. Too small !

 

[fubar57]

Crappy. Can you use P-51 line drawings as a rough guide for the holes?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

How many times have I been in the same situation.

 

[A4K]

Thinking same as Geo. If it helps I can measure the positions on my 1:72 KP kit. Great work BTW!

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[T Bolt]

I Like it!

 

[Bustedwing]

Well I managed to figure out where to position the bomb racks, then it Happened. The alien space invaders vaporized one of the bomb racks. Spent almost an hour looking for it. The down side of the Oscar Madison work area as opposed to the Felix Unger approach. I ended up scratch building another one. Once they are painted shouldn't be too noticable and they're mostly hidden by the drop tanks. I was going to use the bombs but I messed one up when gluing it. The other thing I noticed is it seems to sit a bit too low in the tail. The tail wheel was glued to the fastening point in the fuselage. Maybe it's an inaccuracy in the kit ?

 

[fubar57]

Rack looks really nice

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks like you saved the day with the scratch built rack.