Mrs. Claus' Christmas present arrived Wednesday. Pulling it out and working on it was good therapy for dealing with the disgusting disaster on the TV that day.
I've always wanted one of the photo Mustangs. Outside of doing a Tamiya kit with resin conversion parts (as I did in a review at Modeling Madness), this is the first purpose-created 1/48 kit, and the only other photo Mustang I know of that comes that way is one of the godawful Dragon 1/32 releases.
Yeah, I'm getting good at these. I did discover one neat little trick that got rid of the one fiddly thing in the assembly. If you do not attach that separate upper piece to the gear well (part G-34), and instead glue it to the cockpit floor so it fits as it should, there is no fiddling getting the wing subassembly into position when joining the wing and fuselage.
Nice collection of markings options. However, I discovered that I still had the decals for French F-6Ds that came with the resin conversion i did 18 years ago. So I am going to do this in those markings just to be different. There's another one on the way, so I can do more colorful markings later.
What can I say? It's an Eduard P-51D and it's perfect - only the modeler can mess things up here. So far, so good on that.
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