Bruce_Crosby Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) Hi Guys, You may have followed this one in WIP and seen the struggle it was to build the model. Poor research by Trumpeter and as a kit nothing made much sense. First off, the real Laminar Flow wings are puttied and smoothed in the factory and Trumpeter just put every single rivet on the wings they could find. What's more, they are deep and wide! A whole weekend of filling and sanding, hour after hour to cure that problem. The interior is at best, a guess. I swapped out the seat for a Tamiya one and added HGW seatbelts and added the A frame behind the seat. The engine wasn't much to write home about so I junked it and ended up building a prop mount from hacked up thick plasticard and brass rod. Barracuda for the wheels, always exquisitely mastered and moulded, QuickBoost exhaust stacks, E-Z line for the Aerial, Aires for the wheel wells and undercarriage doors. I intended to build the kit out of the box but it was not to be, it was just awful. But let me point out, the parts actually fit together well, hardly any filler at all. They are just wrong. I even sanded down the whole fuselage to try to reduce the depth and width of rivet holes and panel lines. Because they are so prominent, (and this is a new aircraft on a factory test flight, you can see it in the Squadron booklet), I decided to not use panel line washes on most of the airframe and rely on lighting to show the lines and rivets. Paint throughout was Mission Models, with their Polyurethane additive and thinners. I messed about with their metallic colours, mixing types, adding other colours to vary the shades, mainly adding drops of the Chrome, which is just great and I had a lot of fun playing with it. Markings were a mixture of my own masks for the big stuff and items from the Revell P-51D decal sheet which is simply awesome. Some of the metal shades aren't obviously different to adjacent ones in the photos, much better in the light. Hope you like it. Regards, Bruce Crosby Edited June 26, 2018 by Bruce_Crosby johncrow, MikeMaben, Kais and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Crosby Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 Thanks John, I'm glad I didn't throw it against the wall! But more than once I really wanted to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Dang, Bruce, I really like that!! Sure looks the part to me, despite it's flaws. You did a great job whipping that thing into shape! Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 I think it looks great, Bruce! Kev Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Great job. I totally agree on not useing washes on her. Looks killer....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxim Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theseeker Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 You definitely turned chickensh*t into chicken salad! Exxcellentjob all around. Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben L. Hernandez Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Very nice and clean!!! Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Looks really nice! You'd never know the kit was that bad Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Bruce, no matter what, and kudos for your effort in bringing this Stang up front for us to admire. J. Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I'm glad I didn't throw it against the wall! But more than once I really wanted to! You're just too sensitive Turned out great Mr. C Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerhard Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) Like it, I started the 1/24 P51 D last weekend. I'm not a rivet counter, so if it resembles a P51 when i'm done, I will be happy. Edited June 28, 2018 by Gerhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Crosby Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hi Guys, Thank you for your support, it's really appreciated. It was a complete pig of a kit from day one and sometimes I thought I would give up but now its finished, well, it looks OK-ish. A kit I certainly wouldn't recommend to anyone unless you're retired like me and have lots of time to squander on it. I was a good 50% out on my time planning, four weeks turned into six, mainly as watching daytime TV was preferable to building the kit. Yes, It's that bad! Regards, Bruce Crosby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Holy smokes, do I like the look of that! Fantastic, clean finish. I know the later marks with the bubble canopy are supposed to be better, but I prefer the looks of the B and C. Gaz Bruce_Crosby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigant Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Very nice NMF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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