North American P-51 Mustang fighter
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Silver Horse, and Fighting Rooster
I first encountered the Mustang model in the early nineties. It was an Airfix kit from the Aircraft of the aces series. Of course, then the model seemed to be perfect in its performance. I painted it with the usual Humbrol paints and a [...]
Chuck Yeager’s P51D Mustang Glamorous Glen III
I finished this Tamiya P-51D Mustang in Chuck Yeager's markings. I was thinking this would be a quick build (and it should have) but it ended up taking me almost three months. The model is built straight out of the box. Markings were [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-51 Mustang – insignia masks test, how to get rid of silvering decals and bump into other issues
Being quite lazy I tend to favor Tamiya kits, to eliminate any headaches from the start. Now this one here was an experiment in using Montex masks for the serial numbers and national insignia - something in line with the bad reputation of [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-51B John T. Godfrey
My Tamiya 1/48 P-51b in the markings of 4th FG star, Captain John T. Godfrey.
Replaced the cockpit with a True Details resin item, Aeromaster decals except for some home made kill markings. Used Tamiya AS-12 Bare Metal Silver, overcoated [...]
Review: TAMIYA P-51D MUSTANG 1/32 Scale Aircraft Series (video preview)
TAMIYA 1/32 Aircraft Series No.22
North American P-51D Mustang™ Video preview:
Tamiya has reproduced this famous aircraft with high level of accuracy and attention to detail! Excellent scale kit!
DISCLAIMER:
I am NOT! being paid to [...]
Mustang Tuskegee Airmen
Around a year ago I decided to build an Airfix 1/72 P-51 North American Mustang, it would be the third Mustang (all in 1/72 and all Airfix) in my collection but the first one with a lot of new things going on for it. When I returned back [...]
P-51K “Mrs. Bonnie”
this is the 1/32 Revell kit with Life-Like decals for the aircraft of 348th FG pilot Bill Dunham. - the windscreen and fillet tail from Aerocraft Models [...]
North American F6-D
Presented for your consideration is my build of Tamiya’s P-51 D/K Mustang in 1/32 scale. This is the first model that I’ve built in this scale since I was a teenager. Back then, to teenager me, the bigger the model, the better. Of [...]
Hawk 1/48 P-51D Mustang
Here's another of my old builds, a 1/48 Hawk P-51D that I made in 1989 for a club group build on Aces from New Jersey. "Dragon Wagon" (WR-Y) was flown by Capt. James E. Duffy Jr. from the 354th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter [...]
Diamond Nose...1/48 North American P-51D Mustang, 356th FG USAAF
Built in 2013, this was the third Merlin Mustang my dad built, but the first he did correct, regarding the wings. Back then it was new info for us that the P-51 had sealed/filled panel lines on the wings. Besides that the wings were [...]
