Closing in on three P-15s for 2020.
To me, the hardest paint scheme to do is a single color. Especially NMF. You can do different shades, but you have to hit the marks all the way around or it isn't going to cut it. That's why most of my NMF schemes have other colors in them sufficient to pull the eye away. With this one, the nose will do that, but the entire rest of the airframe is different shades of NMF. But I pulled it off.
Tamiya Flat Aluminum thinned with Micro-Coat clear gloss 50-50 to do the lacquered wings. Overall Vallejo "Aluminum," with panels masked off and done with "Dull Aluminum" (gas tanks under wing, panel under intercooler in the lower nose, radiator area of scoop); "Semi-Matte Aluminum" for side panels on fuselage under cockpit and nose; "Duraluminum" for the panels around the exhaust stacks.
I'm also including a nice color photo of"Missy", an airplane that took the place of "Alabama Rammer-Jammer" (the Mustang I am doing) a P-51D-15 of the 353rd FG's 325nd FS, flown by 1st Lt Arthur Cundy, another of the young aces who found that the laws of chance at 20,000 feet were different than the laws of probability at 100 feet over a German airfield filled with light flak after he was shot down on a strafing mission three weeks before the end of the war. Barracuda Decals from "P-51D Mustangs Part 1"
4 attached images. Click to enlarge.
