That’s a lot of glazing. Sound like Jeff’s advice is the way to go. Been a bit since I checked in here, Chuck, and boy have you grabbed some traction with this Betty. Love that little dihedral jig, nice eng […]

Chuck, I have the same model. I also invested in the Eduard PE interior sets (there are 2, though the do overlap a little) but the most important one is the masking set. I HIGHLY recommend getting one since the […]

Thanks Louis, it’s one of those time consuming process that will take me a few days, do a few at a time, put it aside and work on other projects. As it does get tedious.
Thanks George, Once the masking is […]

Looking very smart

Another excellent and very detailed posting my friend ………………. masking canopies is not my favorite either. You will be busy with this one !!!!

Thanks

Excellent work my friend !!! I learned something about the sliding canopy on these………… thanks for the info.

I took these pictures at an impromptu visit at the airport today. I hope they will help you […]

Here are a couple update photos. I bought the smallest I-beam strips Evergreen makes and they would be perfect for a 1/32 scale Mustang. They are about 1/16″ of an inch wide, give or take, and I needed around […]

Thank you guys! I appreciate all the input and photos of Toulouse. The guys at American Aero built a beautiful airplane. Kind of a fun fact about the TF’s, they had an electric canopy. We tossed around making it […]

Thanks everyone for all of the reference photos. It always seems there are reference photos everywhere until you decide to build a specific kit, then you can’t find them and decide to “wing” it with the paint […]

Thanks Steve for that link, quite interesting and really chilling to say the least. Imagine walking among history as I would put it.
Now a once over the fuselage before I start to install all of the clear […]

Your doing an excellent build on the F-51 Jim. When I started my build a couple of years ago, I assumed way too much on the interior green than the black that was used on the Korean Mustangs. I was […]

Here’s a photo for you that should look really familiar to you…………..

and a close up of the ammo feed…………..

and a few others for you to enjoy !!!

I’m 75 % certain this next one is from […]

Very impressive. Always enjoy the background education. Can’t wait to see the final product.

It looks awesome, Jim. Hot cockpit for a hot airplane. How apropos! Why don’t you just dial down the air conditioning? Whaddaya mean, they weren’t air conditioned? LoL!

Seriously, your research is going […]

Finally getting back to finishing this F-111. With the nose and canopy masked off. Time to paint the lower surfaces Black. Using Tamiya Flat Black.

With the black still in the bottle, I then start to […]

Thanks for the floor boards! They all seem to wear differently. The vent controls always make me chuckle…they, for the most part are useless…it’s just a hot cockpit no matter what you do. The B/C model is […]

NICE !!!!! This one is going to be a real head turner for sure………….. If anyone knows their Mustangs, you’re the man. I learned something here about the cockpit colors. Thanks for sharing this bit […]

My experience with resin is limited at best so a lot of time will be spent here and this is where the build has slowed to a crawl. The gun bay didn’t fit properly so a lot of filling and sanding was required to […]

The Eduard color PE is really nice but it has some issues. The oxygen regulator is flat, literally, so I left the molded version in place. I used some scrap wound guitar string for the hose (D string) and it looks […]