Tony O Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 The Mustang has been hanging around for what seems like years now, fiddled and tinkered with off and on as interest or something much more important took control. Heres the first of a few images of work on the cockpit area including a scratched fuel cell mostly scratchbuilt radio and added cocpit details. It was inspired by the fantastic P-51's of Rodney Williams....I'm determined that the entire kit will have as little resin or PE in it as possible and to this end I've managed to limit this to a set of true details wheels ( yeuch! but more later and a squadron vac canopy...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 maybe this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 close up of the radio fit and the cross bracing over the new fuel tank all from sheet/rod and scrap styrene. The seat is the kit items pan ground out with a rotary bit and a scratched seat back with wire harness loop. I'm not sure on what to use for the harnes and scratched buckles, any suggestions? The colour is home mixed interior green and looks a bit 'iffy' the wooden floor is also a home mix plywood but the tonal differences don't show up too well in this shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 fuselage halves more or less ready to go together note the pathetic atempt at the oil cooler screen, this was one of those 'lack of interest' moments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 everything snug oh sh*t..the tailwheel assembly.... scribed panel lines using a 3H technical pencil to draw the lines in which starts of the scribe and makes it easier for me to guide the scriber. I use old vacuum cleaner drive bands cut up to conform to contours. The rivets have gone too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark B. Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 QUOTE (tony oliver @ Sep 3 2003, 11:44 AM) I'm not sure on what to use for the harnes and scratched buckles, any suggestions? Â For the harness straps lead foil (like the stuff from the tops so good wine bottles) works best followed by good masking tape. For the buckles I would say PE but since you don't want to do that check out R.J. Tucker's "Detailing Ejection Seats" article on arc. His trick for buckles would work on WW II stuff as well. The article is under the Cockpit Detailing section of the Tools and Tips section. Â Â HTH Mark B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 thanks Mark! I'll have a look over at ARC Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 here's a few more images of progress with the true details wheels and gun blast tubes. The gun barrels are yet to be added. And although the inboard gun is recessed into the wing, the blast tube projects slightly from the stub fairing. The wheels are good in respect to the tread and depth of recessed detail in the hubs but the impression of being a flat tyre is a real letdown. A little judicious sanding scraping and reprofiling has managed to rectify this. wheel on left has ben reprofiled, the right is TD standard  I'm actually enjoying this project......famous last words? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 blast tubes in profile, the inboard ( left) still needs a little work to line it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-17steve Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 Hey Tony, so far great work on your Mustang. If you dont mind me asking what scale is it? I'm going to be building the 1/24th scale HobbyCraft Mustang soon and I'm going to add some odds and ends to mine as well. Otherwise I cant wait to see you Mustang when its done. Anyone who builds Mustangs is a-ok in my book! Â Â Blue Skies, Steve #> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 8, 2003 Author Share Posted September 8, 2003 steve, thanks for the encouragement! it the Hasegawa 32nd one. Widely regarded as the best large scale stang around. There's plenty of opinion as to the merits of other kits but I think its safe to say that the Airfix 24th is a lot of work to make it acceptible. I should have some more images soon, the thing is just about ready for a coat of primer. cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 Heres the first of a couple of new images of the progress on what is now to be Preddy's Cripes a Mighty 3rd , courtesy of some Mike Grant decals that I'm ordering. the first image is the rebuilt instrument panel cover and crash pad with a cut out for the scratched K14 gyro sight and the second is a pic of the whole thing together and in the process of rescribing and marking out the more noticeable fasteners on the 'stangs airframe. I'm on a roll at the moment and hopefully should have the whole thing primered by the weekend and ready for some Alclad II. As an experiment and as Preddy's Mustangs weren't of the shiny polished variety, I'm not going to use the glossy primer route, but use an acrylic auto flat grey primer.... cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 here's the second pic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Cochran Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 Nice work there tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony O Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 thanks Greg, so far...reserve judgement for when its covered in silver paint..I have this mental image of it ending up looking like the chrome bumper on some old american gas guzzler from the 60's....applying that Alclad without it showing up all of the scratches is giving me nightmares. cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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