[Tamiya F4U-1A redo]

I wasn't happy with the original scheme on this one so I decided to do a repaint, etc. I think it turned out very well in the Royal Navy scheme. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15 done]

2 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

Looks great as usual John!😀

Thanks Paul. Most appreciated. 🙂

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15 done]

9 hours ago, KUROK said:

Sweeeeet lookin 'stang!

Thanks KUROK. 🙂

[Hasegawa P-40E saved from the shelf of doom]

2 hours ago, KevinM said:

Always nice to save one from the SOD John and have it come out Nicely!Do recall any of the story behind the "43" reminds me of a jersey number like in baseball?

Flown by Bill Day, 49th FG.🙂

[Hasegawa P-40E saved from the shelf of doom]

This one has been on the SOD partly finished for quite a while. I just couldn't decide on the scheme to use and finally I decided to re-scale a 1/48 decal, "Jerry", to 1/32 and go with that. I didn't do a WIP but I think it turned out okay and I hope you like it. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15 done]

2 hours ago, KevinM said:

Nice one John!

Thanks Kevin. 🙂

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

All done.

https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/20722-revell-132-p-51d-5-to-d-15-done/

 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15 done]

I decided to do this build as Dean Hess's a/c in Korea using some left over Tamiya decals. I painted it with Alclad Duraluminum. It seems the ROKAF '51's had the red "no step" warnings on both wings and the national insignias were placed on the upper right and lower left wings unlike USAF a/c. Never had noticed that before! I'll have to clean off the dust on the windscreen now. I hope you like it. 🙂

[SB2C-4 RFI]

10 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

Beautiful, both of them, well done John.

Cheers

Martin

Thank you Martin. I'm glad you like them. 🙂

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

Good progress! Some primer and then I'll start painting. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

1 hour ago, KevinM said:

Looks good John can not even tell surgery was done.

Thanks Kevin. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

About ready to attach the wings.

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

1 hour ago, KevinM said:

Yeah that will be easy could almost take some .010 stryene and melt in there with glue?

I'll use some white putty and sand it out.

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

Resin tail attached. Gonna need some filler. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

Thanks Kevin. It's here so it won't be long! 🙂

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

Cockpit assembly done. I used a Tamiya instrument panel instead of the kit one. Belts are FineMolds. I used Barracudacals for the cockpit details.

 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

I drilled out the breather ports and replaced the kit exhausts with some Tamiya exhausts. 

[Revell 1/32 P-51D-5 to D-15]

I ordered this kit a number of days ago and it's supposed to deliver this coming Monday. In the meantime, since I have several boxes of unused 1/32 P-51 parts, both Revell and Tamiya, and since I didn't have anything on the bench, I decided to see about getting a head start on the build using left over parts. I was able to get a LOT done and will be able to have a nice start when the kit shows up. I plan to do Hess's "Bout One" ROK D-15 using some Tamiya decals, a mix of Revell and Tamiya parts plus a resin replacement tail. And I still have a LOT of unused parts. 🙂

[Infinity 1/32 Aichi Val]

Coming along really well Gus. Those kits can be a real headache as I found out when I built the SB2C. 🙂

[Resin 1/32 P-51D tail source?]

1 hour ago, Spitfire said:

Here's one

https://aerocraftmodels.com/north-american-p-51-mustang-late-style-tail-conversion-for-132-revell-kit-94-p.asp

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis! I will save that link and have it available when I need one of those. Thanks again.

 

John

[Resin 1/32 P-51D tail source?]

I remember someone had a resin tail mod for the Revell 1/32 P-51D model which lacks the tail fillet. Can someone refresh my memory? Thanks!!

John

[SB2C-4 RFI]

4 hours ago, Spitfire said:

Nice one John, in fact both of them look great to me, I must try some day to build the Infinity 1/32 version lurking in my stash.

An impressive looking (if a bit odd) aircraft.

Cheers

Dennis

Thank you Dennis. I've built the Infinity model too and it builds up really nice. 🙂

[SB2C 1/48]

All done.

https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/20698-sb2c-4-rfi/

 

[SB2C-4 RFI]

This is the Accurate Miniatures/ProModeler kit. Build OOB except for the decals which were from my stash. I think it goes well with my previous GSB build. I hope you like it.