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We take a look at a new sheet from Ray at Fantasy Printshop - a nice variety of Mustang Mk.IIIs in RAF service in readiness for those new P-51B kits we're all waiting for! There's also a review to follow for a second sheet of Mustang IIIs... Iain

From the beginning this was intended to be a no-stress, fun build - and it was! Here is my $12 Revell Mustang III, ill fitting bits and all. I had a lot of fun building it, not stressing over the many ill fitting panels, and while it is barely even worthy of display anywhere, especially given the level of expertise on this site, here we are! Honest to goodness I bought it for $12. Cost me more to buy the paints for it! I will probably go back and paint the yellow leading edge band at some point. I had great fun with the decals, working them down over the VERY prominent rivets. In real life, I wonder if the thing even would have flown with all the air resistance! Those of you with eagle eyes will notice the two different sizes of 'G' on the fuselage. Yeah, well.... I had a devil of a time with the first G, it kept folding in strange ways. I thought I'd be smart and try a different way to get the other G on, and completely botched it. Oh well. And you will notice one elevator is mostly gray, while the other is camo. Yeah, my bad again. Painted one of them upside down (off the plane). Like I said, no stress! And I was getting ready to go all crazy detailing the wheel wells, till I noticed Revell doesn't provide any linkage to pose the doors open. Which is screwy considering how much detail they mold into the wheel well itself. Sooo.. got some Blue Tack and positioned the doors coming open (or closed depending on your perspective). I like that actually. I may go back later and do some weathering, oil stains, etc. We'll see. I'm already have way through a 1/72 Helldiver that was given to me so talk about a shock of scale! Thanks for looking and for all the nice comments here and on my other builds. It's fun!

Hi all , I'm building Tamiya's 1/48 Mustang III, using the Techmod sheet 48033 for the Polish squadron, markings for Wing Commander Jan Zumbach's JZ HB868 aircraft from August 1944. I used this same sheet for Capt Bohdan Arct's aircraft and really liked how the plane looked and how well the decals worked. Started with preshading the panel lines, hitting the tires, and then onto the cockpit. Quick coat of paint on the IP and cockpit. Fuel tank is hand painted to give it a bit more texture. Hardly any of this will be seen, sadly, but I know its there. But we all do this, don't we? The center of the instrument panel has a coat of gloss to prep for the instrument decal. The IP is a dark grey, instead of black, to add some contrast to the cockpit. Closer look with the decal in place. The cockpit is painted using MM acrylics, which I usually use. RAF Interior Green, Flory Black wash and Dark Green acryl for some highlights. Using the wash on flat paints lends more of a dirty look that I like in an aircraft that gets used as hard as the Polish squadron planes did. Debating on using the pilot figure. I'm using the Malcom Hood which only comes in the 'closed' option, so nearly all of this will be hidden. But we already went over that point... Control column is painted interior green - again to add some color highlights to the cockpit. Silver and graphite Prismacolor pencils were used to simulate wear. More later!

Build of a Tamiya kit, this time the 1/48 Mustang III kit paired with the Techmod decal sheet. A great subject matter that doesn't get a lot of attention in the bigger kits. The Mustang III's were very interesting in their camo and markings.