North American P-51B Mustang (Tamiya 1/48) versus A-36 Apache (AM 1/48)

Started by John vd Biggelaar · 482 · 2 months ago
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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    @fiveten, @stephen-w-towle, @eb801, thanks a lot guys, really appreciated.

    @lgardner, thank you, Louis. Those are wonderful pictures.

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    Erik Gjørup said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Great progress on these builds!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    @airbum, thanks a lot, Erik.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Although Tamiya provided decals for the white stripes on the upper and lower surface of the wings, I decided to paint them on.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    A much better decision to paint the white, my friend @johnb. Looks wonderful!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    @fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Great choice, John (@johnb). Stripes usually look better if you can paint them.

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    Erik Gjørup said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Sounds like the right decision John.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    @gblair, @airbum, thanks a lot. Those larger decals, in most cases, just look too artificial and shiny in my opinion.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Masking the white ID stripes has been done. On to the first layer of lower surface camouflage.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Great masking, my friend @johnb! Looking forward to the camo!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    @fiveten, thank you, Spiros

    Lower surface camo provided. Neutral grey. Unfortunately found a spot which I missed.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Looks fantastic, my friend @johnb! That tiny spot should be easy to remedy.

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    Stephen W Towle said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I've primed the P-51 A F-6 kit , every thing is in black and plan on priming the yellow stripes on the wings with white. Not much to show. Good news, I've sourced out another seat for my Airfix P-51D. While the paint sets on one kit . . .

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    Stephen W Towle said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Ditto on Spiros comment. The gray underside will really start the ball rolling and provide some momentum. Things are looking good John.