JohnB

This one has been in the stash for quite a while so I decided it was time to build it. Will be OOB. 🙂

Thanks Martin. I miss it at times but it was time to let someone else have it. And he DID get killed on it when someone turned in front of him. Had a wife and 2 kids. SAD

I sold my Harley before I killed myself on it! LOL Was fun to ride though.

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.

Thanks Paul. Most appreciated. 🙂

Thanks KUROK. 🙂

Flown by Bill Day, 49th FG.🙂

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.

Thanks Kevin. 🙂

All done. https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/20722-revell-132-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. 🙂

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

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

Thanks Kevin.

About ready to attach the wings.

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

Resin tail attached. Gonna need some filler.

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

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

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

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. 🙂

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

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

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