North American P-51 Mustang fighter
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Tamiya's 1/48 P-51D Mustang finished as an Australian CAC CA18 Mustang 21.
Firstly though, a little bit of history I managed to glean about the plane, (& apologies in advance for any errors & omissions on my part):
The scheme is [...]
Kit arrived Friday, took five careful hours to assemble without filler. Done OOB other than used Tamiya decals from the "8th AF Aces" release to do Bud Anderson's "Old Crow" ID stripes, invasion stripes, personal [...]
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Today I will share with you this legendary 332nd FG Marking Machine piloted by Lt. Robert W. Williams
The model from Tamiya is absolutely trouble-free. I used only a few etchings from Eduard to the cockpit to [...]
This is the aircraft of Lt. Col. John. D. Landers, P-51D, Big Beautiful Doll.
This is the Tamiya North American P-51D Mustang in 1/48th scale which came with
Cartograph decals. The model is painted with various shades of Alclad 11 & [...]
This is 1/32 Hobbycraft P-51 Mustang 1A finished with the RAF markings ( May 1944 )
Hobbycraft s kit is a scaled up version of 1/48 Accurate Miniatures Mustangs.
Cockpit modified by Vector set.
Seat belts are from Eduard.
I have used Gunze [...]
Both are TAMIYA 1/48 scale kits.
The P-47D "Pride O' Dogpatch" is actually the P-47M kit as it has the fin-fillet. Decals by AeroMaster.
The P-51D "Madam Wham-Dam" is a VLR Mustang based at Iwo Jima. The a/c was [...]
This P-51 represents another one of those unsung heroes of WW2, Lt (later Capt) Preston Easley. A West Point graduate, he flew 57 missions in Europe in both P-47's and P-51's, and finished the war with a DFC and 5 Air Medals, and went on [...]
Here's a short article about a build that I did a long, long time ago...
This one was special to me, since it was my very first attempt at using Bare Metal Foil if memory serves me correctly. It's the old Monogram kit that was re-boxed by [...]
With the new issue of Airfix Model World Magazine now out, I can post some photos of the all new Airfix 1:48 scale Mustang. This is a superb kit, the detail is excellent, some very clever engineering involved too to get nice a seamless [...]
This is my Tamiya 1/32 P51K done as a Mustang IV of 3 Squadron RAAF in Italy 1945.
There are no decals on this model whatsoever as I wanted to try HGW's wet transfer stencils and I can say that they are a great product.
All the national [...]