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

[LSP_Ray]

And the magic continues!

[TorbenD]

Great to catch with you at Telford Peter, and, as ever, see this beauty coming together one miniature marvel after another. Superb work!

 

Torben

[jenshb]

No detail seems to be too small to be a model in it's own right...

 

Jens

[dodgem37]

Sure puts a smile on my face.  Welcome back.  Good show.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[scvrobeson]

Too cool Peter!  The work is just at an incredible level of precision.

 

 

 

 

 

Matt 

[airscale]

thanks folks & good evening

 

,,a bit more done over the weekend..

 

..this is the sidewall of lopes Hope - as you can see there is lots going on, so pert of the process is deconstructing what you see into small assemblies..

 

 

I had most of the structural work done, so time to prime with etch primer..

 

..one side..

 

 

..and the other - this is the side you see above in the real one..

 

 

..after painting green, I started to add some of the fittings and decals including the pedestal...

 

 

..and on the other side, some of the switchgear..

 

 

..a couple of small control units were needed so I made these and prepared a number of watch parts for the fittings...

 

 

..making these convinced me I needed a 3D printer from santa this year as I could have just knocked them up...

 

 

..I also made and added these inner parts to the main longeron at the cockpit sill - the brass 'H' section I used was 0.5mm too small and that was enough to mean all the decals along the side didn't fit - so I took the drawings and scaled these I could just laminate to them..

 

 

..that meant I could really start to add in all the decals and placards...

 

 

 

 

..and a check to make sure all the subassemblies go together to make the cockpit pod..

 

 

 

..should be moving onto the floor, rudder pedals and control stick next...

 

TTFN
Peter

 

 

 

 

[tomprobert]

That's it. I give up 

 

Insanely good - it looks as if you could climb in and power her up - superb!

 

Tom

[Troy Molitor]

Well done Peter.  Just terrific work and attention to small details going on here.  I hope the ZM folks call upon you when they start their 1:32 scale efforts.  Love all the updates. 

 

Troy 

[LSP_Ray]

Amazing!

[R Palimaka]

This made me smile. I was looking at the cockpit photos of the real Lope's Hope you posted above and I wasn't sure if it was the real thing or your model. Had to check the captions.

 

Absolutely astonishing work. And as others have said, a valuable reference for anyone building or researching the P-51B/C. 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2018 by R Palimaka

[LSP_Kevin]

That is ridiculously good!

 

Kev

[Marcin_Matejko]

Perfect, almost like the real 1/1

[dodgem37]

GREAT! show, Peter.

 

What did you use as a cable tie?

 

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mark

 

[Padraic Conway]

Utterly spellbinding!

I've just found this thread and spent the last 30 minutes completely speechless!

Truly inspirational work Peter 

[Out2gtcha]

Wow Peter. Your ability to amaze should not amaze me anymore but it does at every turn.