I'm starting my 2nd Mustang build and went with the 1/48 Tamiya 8th AF set. I'm going to go with the "Lou IV" paint scheme. I have been trying to do some research on this particular plane with little results. Most of the pictures I have found are of the restores "Lou" with the blue coloring instead of the original olive drab.

Can anyone lead me to a site/s, or does anyone have color pictures of this plane. I guess even b/w pictures will also help. And any possible detail pictures.

I would also like to know a little history about this plane if anyone has this too!!

Excited to build my second model!

Thank you,

Kyle

I think you can find everything you are looking for here:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1998/05/stuff_eng_ww2incolor_louiv.htm

Be advised there are a lot of opinions regarding the upper surface colors.

Also, it was not known what the starboard side looked like. It had a different name on the nose.
http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/louivcq_1.htm

://www.prophotohome.com/forum/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/7020/ppuser/54449

Hi Kyle,
An excellent choice, I'm doing the same scheme. Here is the model masked prior to adding the olive green.



I do have more pics but at the moment I can't find them. The olive green is painted and I'm in the process of masking the star and bar insignia and the codes.

I'll have a look to see if any of the references that I tracked down are as good as those that Rex as posted and post them too

Thanks to the both of you. The references are a great help with the color and the history.

Mal which model manufacture is your P-51 pictured above. Is yours also the Tamiya. I would love to see more pics if you can find them.

Thanks again. Looks like i have some history homework tonight.

Kyle

Hi Kyle,
It is the Tamiya 1/48 model. I haven't been able to find the pics that I took but I have taken some more. I will start a seperate thread so I don't hog yours. I won't be able to finish mine for some time as I'm hoping to move and all my modelling gear is packed away.

The link below will bring you to an album of the build pics of my Lou IV Mustang. Take a look and tell me what you think so far.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bernard.kyle/LouIVTamiya#

Thanks,

Kyle