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Rick Schad
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P-51D Tamiya 1/32 Scale All metal skin! "Tattie Bus"

July 18, 2020 · in Aviation · · 20 · 1.8K
This article is part of a series:
  1. Tamiya 1/32 Scale P-51D with aluminum skin Part 1
  2. P-51D Tamiya 1/32 Scale All metal skin! "Tattie Bus"

Well here she is! This will be my last skin build for a while! Such a pain to do this technique lol.
This is the scale kit, nice kit, few fit issues but nothing really bad. The metal is the difficult part, hand cutting all the panels and adding all the rivet detail is a royal pain.
I am pretty happy with the finished build. Now onto something that requires no metal!

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20 responses

  1. I’ll second that: WOW!

    What a beauty! Your effort sure paid off. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Make that three.

  3. 🙂 … Greetings … 🙂 :
    Very outstanding work Rick.

  4. I do understand that you are happy with the finish of your build, Rick.
    It just looks great on every piece of the build.
    Well done.

  5. Stunning! I can see why you wouldn't want to do this all the time but I think the result here is well worth all the effort. Congratulations Rick, she's a beauty!

  6. This is a work of art - again - Rick!
    Stunning indeed.
    You said you would stop (at least taking a long break) metal skinning after the first Starfighter, but you didn't.
    Please don't stop! These are masterpieces!

  7. She's Stunning...and the model is great, too. ALL good.

  8. Lovely! Being Scottish a Tattie Bus has a particular appeal.

  9. It’s named after a Scottish friend of mine ?

  10. Unbelievably amazing Rick.

    Cheers,

    Scott

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