Thanks Terry. Your right, the Tamiya P-51B is a great kit. The only real issue I can find is that the floor is molded as metal instead of wood.

For markings; I'm thinking a 112 Sqn. RAF "Sharkmouth" with the standard late temperate camo scheme. Guy

Hey Terry,
Thanks for the wood floor compliment. The Revell Redo has the removable lower cowl as the original Monogram does. Revel just cleaned up the molds a bit so the lines were finer and the joints were a buit tighter, but it's basically the same old bird. My inspiration is looking at the Tamiya kits and shooting to make it look like one of those!

Just a quick note it has been to long and to many E-mails un answered so I am carrying on my build with AM Decals and will never Order from HOBBY DECAL again.post pics soon.

The clear is drying will start weathering tonight and probably post finished pics tomorrow

Justin , I'm surprised you haven't gotten your decals yet .

Looking forward to seeing the decals on her .

Alright folks I'm making a landing with my P-51D Tamiya 1/48 many,many,many extras as flown by Lt.Ralph W.Man,363rd FS,357th FG."THE TENDER TERROR"......















Hope you like and I enjoyed this build for the most part minus a few little bumps in the road Thank you Terry and i look forward to the next one im off to the origami campaign and my f-14.

Almost forgot I will post pic's in gallery when it is set up

Fantastic work Justin. Just to satisfy my curiousity, I read in another forum you don't build German stuff. Just not interested in the aircraft types? Russell

Thanks Russell nothing against Germans I just love sexy planes with sleek lines most German stuff is very masculine looking and bulky.

Justin , I must say I'm impressed with your finish ! Not very many folks putty the wing panel lines and have the them in silver with the fuselage in polished effect . Nice touch !

I'm German , are you saying I'm masculine / bulky ?

Ok here is my first build. I just got my kit and I started checking it out.

Built that kit ~ 10 years ago. Enjoyed the experience, my first Academy build. It was part of a group build at TCAH (thanks for the kit John!) so there was a little bit of a time constraint. I ended up not installing the drop tanks because the invasion stripe decals cratered. Apparently Academy is famous for this.

Enjoy the build. Hopefully I'll get to sray some interior green on my Mustang this week.

BTW, I preferred to build it with the 'blown' canopy since I've seen so few Mustangs with one.

It looks like it is a nice kit. I havent built anything like this before so I am looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks of it.

A little more progress.

Justin, that's a wonderful effort. Thankyou.

I'm just starting, and building OOB because I don't have anything else my P-51. Nor do I have a good camera, so I'll just have to deal with what I have.

I did manufacture some seat harness out of masking tape and stainless steel wire, painted brown. It looks goofy, but, I'm very happy with the result because it looks like belts are there. Better than none.

All the kit parts were washed with detergent, sprayed US interior green, and then dedicated the individual colors. All I added was the seatbelts and a scratchbuilt trim wheel.

It seems a little spartan, I know. I'm more interested in what you'll see, which is the finish. And I'm having a great deal of fun, while my wife does her hobby; the garden!

Looks nice

I hate you guys. You're getting to glue and paint and stuff. Me, I'm dealing with the inevitable collection of alligators while I'm trying to drain the honey do swamp.

Heck, at this point, I'd volunteer to do Bob's accounting homework if it bought me a couple of hours to spray paint and glue stuff together.

No terry most german woman are very sexy

I have notice some of you guy;s keep spelling my name wrong It's with an i please and not a y

I apologize just noticed that

Hi Terri what part af Germany are you from?

Justin, Tender Terror came out great Glad to see you decided to do a 357th FG plane I am just waiting for the touch up paint to dry and then I can photograph Sweet Helen II and get her posted.

@Terri (see, I got it right )Whats the story on the campaign ribbons and photo gallery?

Later

Okay everyone, here is Sweet Helen II. I apologise for the picture quality, but it is raining as only it can in south Florida at the moment and besides I've only a old point and shoot digital here. Okay enough with the excuses...











In the end, I did decide to go with the new pilot from Tamyia rather than the resin seat from UltraCast. Anyway, all things considered, I'm happy with it

Good luck to everyone else and happy modeling

Later

Bruce, I like it!

From an old soldjier, you did a good job. Hopefully, I can do the same.

What was your interior color?

Guy

Very good Bruce I have to get me one of those pilots cool