![]() ![]() 44-74008 is owned by Intrepid Aviation in North Weald, UK.Ĭandyman-Moose is operated by The Fighter Collection at Duxford. The characteristic dark engine cowling panel below the exhausts is quite noticeable. Each aircraft had been finished to a very high realistic standard and it was a sight to behold. Photo: Bryan RibbansĪt the same airshow were a rare collection of other P-51D’s Old Crow, Candyman-Moose, Double Trouble Two and Sunny VIII – shown here – were all there and together they flew in formation to make the largest assembly of P-51’s in Europe since the end of World War II. Bud is a wartime ace who flew with the 357th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force at Leiston Field. ”Bud” Anderson, a pilot who originally flew seveeral Mustangs with this name. It is immaculate, however, I am not sure if the colour scheme is authentic. This is resident at Tom Reilly’s Aviation restoration facility based in Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida and is kept in flying condition. This fairly large set of photographs has been divided into sections below. Some additional photos from Magnus Fridsell (via Martin Waligorski) show the P-51D on display at the Swedish AF Museum in Linköping, Sweden. I had an opportunity to photograph several preserved – and flying – machines at Duxford. Nowadays a bubbletop Mustang is the most widely preserved warbird, and it is fairly easy to encounter P-51Ds at airshows, at least here in the UK. This walkaround of the P-51D ”bubbletop” Mustang concludes the wide coverage of the type that readers of this publication undoubtedly noticed during recent months. The development history of P-51D can be found in the previously published Modeller’s Guide to Late P-51 Mustang Variants by Joe Baugher. Much has been already written on these pages about P-51 Mustang, so I will skip the background information. The pictures will look best if your video card is configured to handle 16-bit color. It contains a number of pictures that we wanted to reproduce at the highest practicable quality. Now that the Mustang’s together, I need to clean up a few of the seam lines, throw some paint at the wings to make sure the seams are properly filled, and replace some of the brass gun tubes I accidentally knocked into the wings while sanding the filled seams.7 i Magazine / Volume 4 - 2000 av Olle LindauĬaution. Tamiya’s Mustang is the epitome of great fit, and if you’re careful you can get it together with a minimum of fuss. Once the wings were taken care of, the P-51 literally flew together. Surfacer 500, then sanded it down with 400, 1000, and 1200 grit sandpaper. After taping off the gun doors and the few lines that had to remain, I dabbed the exposed lines with Mr. Most Mustang kits, the Tamiya included, retain the original panel lines. To that end, North American Aviation filled all of the flush rivets and panel lines on the forward sections of the wings right on the assembly line, and painted them over with aluminum lacquer. In order to wring the most efficiency out of the wing as possible, drag had to be minimized as far as possible. The Tamiya kit’s representation of the P-51’s gun tubes is rather poor, so I drilled them out and replaced them with telescoping brass tubing.Ī lot of the Mustang’s speed and range came from it’s cutting-edge laminar flow wing. Once the cockpit was installed and the fuselage closed, I moved on to the wings. After painting and weathering, I used Airscale’s 1/48 instrument panel decals to punch up the gauges. Ultimately, my displeasure led me to steal the instrument panel from another Tamiya P-51 I have in the stash. When I cracked open the P-51 box, I was hit by a slew of aftermarket accessories I’d ordered once upon a time: Ultracast gear doors, seat, prop and spinner, Squadron vac-form canopies, and an Eduard PE set.Īfter painting the cockpit areas with Lifecolor Interior Green, Vallejo black and Floquil weathered black, I opted to use the Eduard PE set in the cockpit, and was immediately unhappy with the quality of the instrument panel. However, with the failure of willpower that culminated in my pre-order of Tamiya’s forthcoming 1/32 Mustang, the 1/48 kit has taken on a new urgency as something of warm-up build for that kit, and a perfect platform to work on my natural metal techniques and masking the 352nd’s distinctive blue cowls. ![]() My original intention – to use Tamiya’s 1/48 P-51D as something of a decompression build between the Sopwith Pup and Spitfire Mk.VIII – has foundered somewhat on the twin rocks of advanced modeler’s syndrome and the sheer epicness of Tamiya’s big Spit. ![]()
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