Oooooold Revell P-51B

[denders]

Primer!

 

[denders]

Underside Gray painted.

 

[Ayovan]

Dave, I know my eyes aint what they used to be, but isn't the oil cooler vent open on the wrong side? 

[denders]

Hmmm, that's what the Eduard instructions show. I've had a hard time finding photos with it open. This is from an old Detail and Scale #50.

 

 

 

[JayW]

12 hours ago, Ayovan said:

Dave, I know my eyes aint what they used to be, but isn't the oil cooler vent open on the wrong side? 

 

He is right - that door has to get turned around.  Nice build!  But that door MUST bee turned around.

[Joe Hegedus]

2 hours ago, JayW said:

 

He is right - that door has to get turned around.  Nice build!  But that door MUST bee turned around.

Yep; it's an exit door, not an inlet scoop.  Opens at the rear.

[denders]

It's a whole lot easier said than done. I used epoxy because I didn't want a slight bump to knock it out. 

[denders]

Well, that was easier than I expected. Two different scribers and a little judicious use of a photoetch saw blade. The PE part isn't damaged at all. 

[Ayovan]

1 hour ago, denders said:

It's a whole lot easier said than done. I used epoxy because I didn't want a slight bump to knock it out. 

In the words of my hero, and all around great American, Homer J Simpson....Doooh!

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[LSP_Kevin]

Much better!

 

Kev

[denders]

Some more color.

 

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More paint.

 

[denders]

Some of the markings, painted. More to come, just finished them. Hopefully I can remove the masking and post an update tomorrow. The rest of the markings are from the decal sheet. Hopefully the Revell decals are still good (says 1993 on the decal sheet.) I'll have to do a test with something I'm not going to use.

 

 

There are some spots that lifted when I removed masking, mostly from the camo colors. Some of them are from spots where I had the Dzus fastener decal details added. I guess perhaps I didn't have them down well enough, unfortunately. I'll have to figure out just how I'm going to repaint those areas. I'm thinking about lowering the airbrush air pressure to 10 psi or and use Post It notes.

 

Dave

 

[dennismcc]

That is looking good, for such an old kit it has turned out really well, it reminds me of my early attempt at the kit in the 1990's which still has pride of place in my US section of the display cabinet.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis