Revell 1/48 P51D Mustang "Big Beautiful Doll"

[Maglar]

We made it guys! And yes, she is quite beautiful. Decaled it today and it is done, the checkered decals were a pain in the butt and I got some tiny air pockets but im not worried about it. I had to omit the red lines because I cut it out and when I slid it off the sheet it ripped, I think its justified without it anyway.. Let me know what you think

 

[Maglar]

And two more

 

[Airframes]

Hey, pretty good! Don't know if you can do it, or want to, but the 78th used the 'tear drop' shaped drop tanks, as shown in the attached pics. Can't remember if the kitv has both types of tank though.
That's Col. Landers getting into the first Mustang - obviously not using BBD that day!
Nice work, especially those tricky decals for the nose, well done.

 

[Bill G.]

Maglar, pretty good job! I see you had a touch of trouble with the nose checkerboard decal. Again, good job!

Bill G.

 

[Maglar]

@ Airframes, It only had those tanks which is fine, but on the canopy glass it has the landers decal .

@Bill, thanks bill, the nose was a struggles.. 4 pieces of angle decals, yeah..

 

[chook]

Hi Maglar. Good job. I'm hoping to use the coming easter long weekend to paint my 1/32 Hasegawa BBD and am anxious about those nose decals too. I dare say they're be a 'help me' post closer to that time. Naturally I'll post pics but not too soon.

 

[Maglar]

It wasnt too bad, but I accidently put the bottom one on the top and had to take it off while it was doing its stick reaction. I brushed down water on the model then put them on, there were tons of air bubbles because it requires you to cut flaps into the checker-pattern to wrap the nose therefore air gets in constantly. Mine doesnt look amazing but I pulled off the P51 look and im fine with that. Maybe a decal solvent or something would help.. might buy some. But dont stress too hard, I didnt get mine right and I think the model still looks great, but I also made it

 

[Heinz]

Great work

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work Maglar!

 

[109ROAMING]

Great job man 8)

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work!

 

[Wurger]

With all here.

 

[Lucky13]

Looking great buddy!

 

[FlexiBull]

Nice work there ............ but please ditch that pilot ....... he looks like he's "chokin' the chicken" in photo 4

 

[Maglar]

LOL! Its all camera angle, if I took it on the other side his hand is on his right knee. But hes gotta do something while on 'break' time . I painted him too well to ditch him, hes the cherry on the ice cream.

 

[muller]

Chokin' the chicken!

Lovely build Magler, you're doing some nice bare metal birds!

 

[Maglar]

Yeah its getting better.. did a glossy black undercoat and a gloss cote seal on this one, much better then the P38!

 

[FlexiBull]

Yeh he looks happy he can stay

 

[Maglar]

I moved him to the cockpit, only him and god will know what goes down in there!!

 

[Jgonzalez]

Nice work there ............ but please ditch that pilot ....... he looks like he's "chokin' the chicken" in photo 4

LOLOL Some good ol' stress release before action... LOL Very nice mustang tho... congrats!