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Silentsage, for me is a concern also on how i am going to glue the Photoetch ribs together, they say to use very thin Cyano, but that is easy to say than doing it, mine will be painted all, cause it will be sitting next to the Tamiya's P-51d that i finished las week and i want it to look like the real thing without the skin. Ron, sorry for my ignorance, jjejejeje , thought those were fuel lines because they come out of some kind of high pressure manifold tube, so the fuel lines are the ones on top of the engine that comes out of a pipe????? just trying to figure it out from pictures i have of the merlin, and also to learn some about this engine. This weekend i will contunue with the buid. Jorge PS: sorry if my english writting is poor, english is not my native language

good to see you here in this neighborhood Chuck, your P-51D was the inspiration for mine

Peter, looking good your progress, keep watching every day how it goes along, as you know the fitting is amazing and allowed me to paint all the parts as flaps , ailerons, elevators, and radiator inlet all apart and then jus drop them in place, i keep working on what a promissed, for sure by the end of this month i can send it to you ( the metal look secret formula) jejejejee

well here is an email a received last night, the email comes from Mr Bud Anderson son and goes like this: Jorge, while I was in San Diego with my father, i saw your pics of OLD CROW. He was being inducted into the San Diego Air Museum Hall of Fame. When I showed him your model, he said it was one of the best Old Crow models he has ever seen, as he has seen a lot. Thanks for sharing your model and honoring my father with the pictures, we appreciate it. Jim

thanks guys, there will be no updates till next weekend, have to travel out of the country and will return by friday, sorry,

just added some fuel lines from the fuel manifold pipe to each cylinder, to add more realism to the merlin

Ok so here i go, i will start with the engine, believe it or not this will be my first time painting an engine, here is the engine in pieces, all is in white metal today a learned that if you paint over white metal the paint wont stay on, just a little scratch and the paint is gone, so i used Tamiya's Metal Primer, is great, after is dry the paint will stick perfet to the metal here are a few pictures of the engine, just black and some of the bolts heads painted in silver with a Prismacolor silver color

the expesive is $350 including the shipping from japan to USA

hello everyone, this will be my first in progress post, after i finished my 1/32 Tamiya P-51D all dressed up,http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=47418 ,i want to sit next to it the naked reality of the P-51D, the hole airplane without skin so here is the model i working on right now: This is waht you get on the box, photoetch fretches 5 and around 200 pieces in withe metal Iam also going to use some pieces left from my tamiya model I am not going to leave it all metal, everything will be painted as the real airplane, so all the structure will be a mix of yellow syncromate and green syncromate an the rest of the pieces will be as in the real airplane

i whant to congratulate you on the espectacular decals you make, here is a tribute to the P-51D with your OLD CROW decal set

Thank you all for your kind words on my work, Kev , yes you can puvlishe on your web if you want

Well this is my first time posting on this forum, also is my first time building a bird in 1/32 i always buid in 1/48, but if you are a Mustang Freak you must own this masterpiece model, here are a few pics of my work, any critics bad or good are welcome as always, we learn from critics, enjoy:

great work on those guns, i am keep checkin every day your post, maybe by next week i will have finished mine and then the respective photo session

Peter i am building both models

Hi Peter, as i told you yesterday, here is a picture of what i have done so far, and to explain how i am building it in modules and then they will go together and here is the fuselage closer look as i told you, these model will go all closed and mos of the interior parts as engine and machine guns will go into these model, both models will be dispayed together, as i will call it, the naked and the dressed up mustangs

well, if you fill the rivets and paint the wing silver as the mustang came out from factory is fine, and if you leave all the rivets visible and paint the wing NMF is correct too, because by the end of the war on most mustang they removed all the cover on the wings and that is why they look bare metal, so either way you do it will be fine, too bad that the only original picture from OLD CROW you can see the wing, but if you go to BUD ANDERSON personal site you will find that the plane after they removed the olive drab paint they left it bare metal. See you tomorrow i am signing out for today PD: sorry for my english, is not my native language, and in mine you will see all the rivets on the wing

Peter, what do you mean with the wing issue???, i am building mine in modules, example, the wing are done, fuselage done, but they are not glued on yet, the fitting is perfect so you can build it the way i am doing it, mine will be all closedup, the engine and the machine guns will go to the other half of my proyect that will be a XXX mustang, it will be undressed, skin off, just the structure, both will seat together in a base, so all the inseide will be seen in one and the other one will show you the way it look all closedup. tomorrow i will take i picture of what i have done so far

Hi Peter, is nice to see some one doing the same airplane as the one i am finishing the OLD CROW, mine is almost done, i am doing it in bare metal finish, as soon is done i will upload some pictures of it, i called the ALCLAD monster because all the alclad i used, yours look magnificent. Best regards Jorge

Some update,

it will be hard to finish it by December 15th and know that i have to travel to miami next week, forget it, maybe for next year

some update, the panel lines in the nose section already reworked original reworked some other work on the nose the real thing

The nose gear is done with the hydraulic lines , none of the lines come with the model, the nose gear is to plain with out them, and in this scale we need more details, so the model wont look like a toy

thank you guys for the welcome, and most of all, for the sudden problem in your eyes, jajajajaja, i will be posting pictures regularly, and sorry about my english

Well after keep tracking of Brian's work on his SU-30 in this forum, i started my own Russian Mamut, it is progressing slowly, here are some pictures of what a have so far Cockpit is ready the Zactoman air intakes already in place and the internal part painted The vertical stabs are painted already, i tested my skills for the camouflage on them instead of the fuselage Fuselage already glued together and the nose cone lines need to be erased and reescribed again cause they are wrong