I was on Hyperscale and it seems the Boo Birds are allready bashing this kit with the few photos that Jerry Crandall has posted i say lets give it a fair shake before condeming it over a few fuzzy pictures .

Hi Doug

The first test shots had many problems, but Dragon e-mailed me last week with word that fresh ones are being produced so we'll soon see how well the kit is progressing.

All the best

Rowan

Hi
Found these pics, don´t know if it a testshot or`?
http://www.eagle-editions.com/dragonp-51.htm

but in my eyes it´s still overtakes that old Hasegawa. There is already a spot on the shelf for this kit in my workshop.


Lars Q

Thanks for the link. I, too, have been waiting for some info on this one.

- Frank

Cheers for the link Lars....looking forward to see it released.

Here in Australia we are getting the P-51 with Aussie markings. Post WW2 I think. Around 1947 from memory.

Cheers Jason

Just noticed that this is 1/32 and up, NOT 1/48......silly me!

Decals,Decals
i already have ALP decals for mine. Swedish markings with a nice black horsehead as personal marking.
But decals would not be any problems i think.

Lars Q
ps
Revell will rerelease the old P-51 B. it´s not a good one but still a B model

Hi
Tom Cleaver was not happy over the new kit. Follow the link


http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/previews/tmc3251p.htm

I still gonna order that one
Lars

Yeah i read the review and i cancelled my pre order i'm dissapointed by the kit the pictures and the review speaks volumes about the kit and i trust the opinion of Mr Cleaver i hope the Trump P47's are better.

I think I´ll would be my own judge on this kit.Still gonna order this one, having that old Hasegawa.
Lars

More from the swedish IPMS-site about the kit
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/news/article.asp?data=9264779757_~d_20061218_053723_~t_Not_entirely_happy_Christmas_for_Dragon_~a_Martin_Waligorski.xml

Lars

Hi All
Phantom 2 (Stefan) and I got the kit yesterday and I say we got a real good kit for the money I’ll never seen the perfect kit (Having started up the 32-scale P-38 from Trumpeter),but this is a good one in my eyes. So that’s what putting models together is all about.
Free from work today i´ve took a real good check out in the box and I’m really satisfied with the kit As I said before I’ll be my own judge, I don’t see any big trouble, correcting some few thing on this one.

The cockpit floor that Jean-Luc showed us in his pics is easy to correct with some plasticard and the “frosted” surface is no hard fix. Gentle wetsanding the surface and a polish with a nailpolisher to bring up the shine. Then you have a nice surface to start spraying that Alclad colours. This sanding is just the usual prepjob before paint in my world anyway

The rivets in the wing rots is redone with MDC;s rivet tool, that’s 2 minutes of work mates.

Next is the position lights to fix, I´ve gonna make some homemade lenses for this. More of that another time
Let’s build some Mustangs,

Cheers
Lars

Hi Lars!

Welcome to the club! :-)

Have you decided on a decoration yet? Swedish?

Jean-luc

Yes Jean-Luc
Your guess is correct
Decals from Flying color and Bison
The mustang willl have bare metal fuselage, olivgreen antiglare, blue spinner and a nice pony on blue background as noseart. Here,s the decals


here is some nice stuff I will use too.

And references on the Swedish Mustangs you find in this book. ISBN 91-85496-31-6



Lars

Hi Lars!

Those replacement wheels are a good idea! I just completed the landing gear assembly and found out the vinyl tyres are a little oversized...

Jean-Luc

Progress, progress
I’ll have started up the work in the office and here are some pics of the progress. I´ve learned that Eduards etch don’t fit into to the office that good, so it will some real work on the instrument panel especially .






until next time

Lars

So is this a rebox of the Dragon kit?

I've built two, well finishing up the second one.