Matt Odom pulled out all the stops when he built his Tamiya 1/32 Mustang. Matt describes the building of his impressive model.

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Thanks!

Thanks Jess for doing just a wonderful job editing my article and arranging my photos - absolutely top notch operation you've got here.

I'll be a regular contributing author.

Simply Outstanding Matt! You should be writing the "How-to" book on this one. One of the nicest Stangs I've seen yet. Thank you for sharing! Take care.

Jim



P.S. Jess, very nice piece of work in ARC! Beautiful 86!

Beautifully built Pony Matt, truly one to be proud of!

Cheers, D

We saw it here first. Go look in Night Fighters

Thanks guys, I'm truly happy with the outcome and I'm glad to have the article published here on Aeroscale. With your positive feeback for encouragement, I'll likely do a similar article for the F4U-1, I'd love to do an in box review - but I'm also open to doing an article like this summing up the majority of the aftermarket parts that will doubtlessly become available.

Magnificent Build Matt, and a very well done article. Your work is most deserving of Feature Article presentation, she's truly an outstanding example of the modeler's art, and it's gratifying to see her completed after viewing the initial start phase some months back.
As for the tiny wood antennae, It's my honour to have contributed (in a very miniscule way!) to such a fine Model)
Last, you can't be looking at most of the other work on the Early Aviation Forum,I am hardly a "Master" but certainly enjoy trying to come close to many of the members!
Well done, and hope to see more!
Cheers,
(Your Uncle) Lance

Hi,

Really Fantastic....!!! I love it..!

Congrats...


Diego

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback.


Uncle Lance - as always you're far too modest, but I'm told that not being an 'arrogant dick' is a good thing; which is likely MY downfall haha. Thanks again for you hard work - you'll have to see it in person come this November.

Wow, Matt- that's a tremendous build- cheers! you're a better man than I to tackle that beautiful NMF finish- that stuff scares me. Those gears bays- ahhh, that's the stuff! All in all you've done justice to every manufacturer featured in this build- I hope every and every one send s you a cookie for your efforts. Oh, and a beautiful Vargas girl to boot? Icing on a marvelous cake.

Thanks Chuk! A welcome compliment from the Master Modeller himself!

Lcarroll and I seem to live in your threads - often messaging each other when you've posted an update. Your work is always an inspiration and quite honestly between you and Lcarroll, just about the only way I found the determination for such a long build.


I'll keep you posted as far as any cookies go - I'll be sure to share and play well with others :-)

Cheers

Matt

Matt, Just a tremendous feature article. Well written & edited, which made following your build an easy task.
Joel

Thanks Joel - I was initially concerned about its length, but I figured that if I were considering a build of this kit, then I would read as much as this.

This is hermit level commitment to modelling. Your bare metal is really convincing. The Packard wizard in there is a really great piece of painting too.
If you don't mind me asking, how long did this take?

Hey Joel - sorry thought I replied earlier.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm very happy with the end result. The overall build took two to three hundred hours and spanned about a year - but a lot of that year had a fair amount of downtime as well so it's hard to say how long it realistically took. Probably only about a week....