Looking superb, my friend @johnb!

Had some struggle with the decals and stencils from the beginning on, they were very brittle and tended to fall apart easily. The larger decals did suffer some minor pieces to came off but the smaller parts were extremely difficult to get done correctly. From the decal film all looks fine but when submitted into water they start to crack..

I decided to apply the decals and stencils on the propellor blades. The remaining small stencils I will not apply them to prevent further struggles.

@fiveten, thank you, Spiros. I agree on that, paintwork done in the field would cover most of them.

John, to echo Georges comments on decals, your "holding your breath" and crossing your fingers . . . twice to see if there naughty or nice. Spiros has good comment about the over painting of small stencils. Your build is going to be a smart, tight build with a great Olive drab paint job.

Life has gotten in the way of modeling but, today, some progress in the P-51A F-6 build. I used a combination of three Tamiya grays. Going from a flat/NATO black to Tamiya XF-82, to XF-83 and ending at XF-80 being the lightest. To paint the gray underside. More study will be needed to get things right from the photographs but, where moving forward on this build.

2 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Things were caught early and its a hiccup in life. Spiros, your builds and comments always brighten my day.

Weathering applied. All that remains are some small pieces. The landing light glass does however not fit perfectly, a bit of grinding needs to be done. At the end the paper fuel tanks will be mounted. George @gblair, did add some piping to his fuel tanks and this is something I want to do as well.

Looks wonderful, my friend @johnb! Looking forward to see the piping applied to the wing tanks!