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World War II: USA
Aircraft of the United States in WWII.
Hosted by Rowan Baylis
1/72 Airfix P-51B Hunhunter D-Day
jaypee
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Posted: Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:28 AM UTC
Hunhunter usually flown by Brown, but transferred to Bert Marshall for D-Day operations.
Brown's nameplate and victory panel removed and invasion stripes added.
RAF Dark green over NMF.

In flight just as it returns from patrol over Normandy. The only thing I'll add is too experiment
with blurring around the spinner, but it might ruin it so for now its done.



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robot_
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Posted: Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:38 AM UTC
Very nice John-Paul. Any plans for the stand? How easily did this old kit (I'm guessing by the panel lines) go together?
jaypee
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Posted: Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:56 AM UTC
The build shots are on the Mighty 8th campaign thread. The fit was so good I forgot I had not glued
the rear stabs! slot right into place, little or no fillerused anywhere on it I think this is at least 1979.
You get no cockpit but easy to add enough to fill in around the pilot. Very fine raised lines.
I expected to fight it and got tamiya like fit!
Pretty good kit all told, quite accurate in profile.
Picked it up for pocket money (1979 pocket money too) so great value.
Only thing you could really say against it is the decal sheet is crap. Only one option (for Brown's hunhunter) and the
victory panel decal is a mess.
I'll really just built it as a test for doing invasion stripes but I got impatient and hand painted them, defo an airbrush job next time.
No stand I've promised it to my 3 year old. It'll be lucky to last a week
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