Airfix P51D Mustang 357th 8th Airforce 1/48
P51D-5 flown by Lt John Howell 364th FS, 357thFG 8th Airforce RAF Leiston, July 1944. 1/48 Airfix Pleasure to build. I had to paint over the red checkered decals s my insignia red didn’t quite match. But a steady hand seemed to work. I painted all of the yellow.
The invasion stripes were masked cause I have tried doing them free hand as it would have been. For me, it doesn’t work out well in 1/48. I tried messing ut up a little.
Hope you like. Thanks for lookjng.
357th #airfix #p51mustang #48scale #bullseyedecals
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James B Robinson said on March 3, 2020
What's not to like about a P-51? Nice work here Paul.
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Paul van Acker said on March 9, 2020
Thank you 😀
John Healy said on March 3, 2020
Nice job, Paul. Great paintwork.
George Henderson said on March 3, 2020
Very nice
Tom Cleaver said on March 3, 2020
Nice work. It is indeed a nice model.
A note on D-Day stripes: by this period (late June/July) when the stripes were removed from the upper surfaces, the original hastily-applied stripes had been touched up and improved by the ground crews. So what you have here is more correct than you thought.
Thiago C. M. Pacheco said on March 4, 2020
Interesting note. Invasion stripes and their tidiness (or lack of it) is a recurring theme in modeling discussions, and I often pondered if masking with a ragged edged tape would reproduce the look of hastily applied stripes more scale-accurately. But then again...wouldn’t “scale effect” nulify such defects? In the end, I’d guess plain masking and taping would be the way to go. That or brush painting - good brush, steady hand, blue moon thinning...
Paul van Acker said on March 9, 2020
Good to know. Thanks so much as always. 😀
Greg Kittinger said on March 3, 2020
A good looking Mustang! Well done.
Spiros Pendedekas said on March 3, 2020
Great job!
Thiago C. M. Pacheco said on March 4, 2020
Beautiful build! Great job on the checkers!
Robert Royes said on March 4, 2020
Nicely done! Looks great in the OD/natural scheme.
DE4EVER said on March 4, 2020
🙂 … Greetings … 🙂 :
Sharp looking Mustang Paul, well done representation of the OD scheme.