North American P-51 Mustang fighter
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Fooled ya! I'm Back after a too long vacation. Well after saving scheckles and pennies I finally bought the car I was after for many years. It's a 2006 Ford Mustang. One owner car with only 49,000 miles on her. It's a V6 but that is what [...]
OK, folks, my first article on IModeler. As my profile states, I'd been out of the craft for about 35 years doing life, and now life seems to have granted me to get back into it. This featured model is my third essay (the previous being an [...]
The 352nd Fighter Group was constituted in Sept 1942 and activated at Bradley Field, Connecticut on October 1, 1942. Two of its squadrons, the 21st (later changed to the 486th) and the 34th (later changed to the 487th) had long histories, [...]
War broke out in Korea on 25 June 1950 and on 4 August 1950 the South African government announced its intention to place an all volunteer squadron at the disposal of the UN. On 25 September 1950, 2 Squadron "Flying Cheetahs" [...]
Mustang IV
303 Polish squadron 1945
Tamiya 1/32
Melius Manu – mask
HGW – seatbelts
Barracuda Studios – Cockpit upgrade, Cockpit stencils
Eduard – photo-etched, Brassin wheels
Master - barrels
Painted Tamiya, Gunze
Hello everybody, here is my try at Hasegawa P-51C. Built almost OOB, with addition of Quickboost exhausts. Painted with Gunze Aluminium and Red, wash is Tamiya, and exhaust stains and dirt a combination of Tamiya smoke and Tamiya D [...]
I've actually considered not going to model shows because it seems I'm a s****r for picking up very old kits. This P-51B is a show purchase that I've just completed as a fun weekend project. It was fun to build,however, it took me longer [...]
This is 1/48 Tamiya P-51B Mustang finished with the markings of 42-106730 Reggie s Reply flown by John T Godfrey from 336th FS in April 1944.
Cockpit modified by Eduard instrument panel, Quickboost gunsight and Ultracast seat
Painting [...]
Well its been a productive five weeks and got three builds done . All painted with Tamiya paints . Love the Tamiya kits and cant get enough of them.
Brian
Most of us who build World War II aircraft, started out being interested in the ace's. Therefore most of us have cranked out a Don Gentile "Shangri-La" P-51B.
As the story goes, Don Gentile slammed his beloved aircraft into the [...]