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P-51 Mustang - my first plane build!


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My first (and probably my last!) airplane build.  Made this for my father's Birthday over 3 days (staying up to 3am on the 3rd day counts, right?).

Its box stock, and not historically accurate, but it looks fine enough on the shelf.

Enjoy.

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Ditto what Ray said. Pretty darned nice for an express job. :)

 

Thanks!

I thought this would be a quick build. Only 59 parts? Base color is aluminum? How hard could it be?

Had plans to hand it over Saturday morning, which meant I had 3 evenings to work on it after the kids went to bed. First two nights was spent on paint. Wrestled with it hot 6 hrs Friday night - a solid 2 1/2 of that was fighting with the decals. No amount of Micro-Sol would make the checkered decals conform to the fuselage! Pretty happy with the end result. Dad was quite surprised too!

Thanks again to all for the compliments!

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Is that the Monogram (now Revell) 1/48 kit? That's not a particularly easy kit to build. I know--I've done three of the things.

I'm pretty sure it's the same one. Don't remember the scale, but for sure it was a Revell kit.

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Looks good to me, nice work on the Mustang.  Glad your Dad likes it, too.  The first plane I ever built was a P-51 as well.

Thanks!

The old guy is who got me in the hobby as a kid. The crazy idea started in March when I brought him with me to a model show at the Canadian Warplane Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. He said it brought back memories of building his favourite plane - the P-51. Convenient place for the inspiration.

Long story short, he wanted to get back into the hobby, but didn't think he could do it with his eyes & arthritis. 

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Thanks!

I think that if I were to do it again, I would cut the checkered decals into strips & apply them that way. At least they would be easier to conform over the contours of the nose.

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Very nice build on that plane as I prefer those Mustangs over the four wheeled versions. I built a plane a couple years back so that I could hang it from my ceiling of my den/model room. It was the Revell Texan, and probably the first plane kit that I've built since 50 years ago.

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That looks like a good build to me especially considering that its the Revell kit. The last time I built one of those was about 30-ish years ago. I've got a Tamiya Mustang in the stash as well and one day I hope to build it.

You'll love it, it fits together like a dream.

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