1/18 P51C Mustang "Lopes Hope the 3rd"

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                                                      I'm afraid to look !!!

 

                                 

Edited March 22, 2018 by mmaben

[Kylenlord 25]

Great choice Peter!

 

A personal favorite of mine, the C variant with the dorsal fin. Kind of an oddball between the B and D.

 

I'm building a Jerry Bates P-51B as the C, the one ill be doing has a completely yellow tail. If I recall correctly I saw you post over at Rcscalebuilder, all I could think was I can only imagine what you would do with a larger build.

 

Looking forward to this one!

Kyle

[Out2gtcha 31,605]

Love it!

[williamj 4,669]

       

[Hacker 310]

   

[Gerhard 2,645]

Oh boy!! 

[Trak-Tor 1,551]

Glad to have you back, Peter!

Looks like another amazing project.
And the resources you have for it... hmm...

 

Juraj

[Cees Broere 1,617]

The winner of Telford 2019 in the making. Wonderful project Peter.

Cees

[dodgem37 7,501]

Came by for a second look.  No canopy?

 

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mark

[BlackCanopy 113]

BTW, one suggestion if I may.  I note that there are a few 1/18 scale Merlin Engine kits out there and if you could use your skill to pack one of these babies into this project, you might actually match or exceed the Spitfire.  Ok, maybe not match it, but darn close!

 

 

 

Second that!

 

Love your chosen subject, Peter!

[Fencer-1 456]

Hello Peter,

There is a lot of work to be done!

The blueprints have many distortions need to be taken in account. They need to be verified by dimentions written on them - not an easy task!

I hope this picture will help you. I drew it using true dimentions from NAA drawings originally to convert 1/32 P-51D into B model, but the work isn't done yet.

This drawing scaled to 1/18 so you need just download full-size image.

 P51B_cockpitarrangement118 by Alexey Matvienko, on Flickr

[Jim Barry 1,525]

Great Subject. Worthy of another master effort . I'm sure you've seen  Young C. Park's and David Glen's Mustangs.     

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Peter

Awesome project and I'm ready for the journey.

:popcorn:

Peter

[KUROK 580]

Where do you get the base model?

[Radders 1,661]

Where do you get the base model?

 

Massive clue in the first post...!

 

" I asked Mirek at HpH to run me off one of their bespoke 1/18 subjects "