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Nice pictures John, thanks for sharing. The first one is ex-RAAF CA-18 Mustang Mk.22 with the Rolls-Royce Dart 510 installed. A project of Australian gentleman Hockney Treloar. It never made it and was later sold to US and reverted to Merlin engine. The second one is Piper PA-48 (N481PE), note the framed windscreen, ten hard point and the probe on the left fuel tank. Probably at Pima, during its restoration process.

And One more thing, that people didn't notice. Piper Enforcer N201PE had a frameless windshield.

There's little confusion about the Piper Enforcer to be clarified. Langnase Turbo Mustang III (N6167U) with the RR Dart engine, later renamed "Enforcer" was in 1970 sold to Piper Aircraft. D.Lindsay closed Cavalier year later and was involved in the development of the concept with Piper, which leased a Lycomings t55 from the Air Force and built 2 Enforcers, a single seater PE-1 (N201PE) and two seater PE-2(N202PE). Two seater crashed and single seater didn't get the COIN contract. Seems like the Turbo Mustang III ( N6167U) was used to construct the PE-1. One more thing , later two Piper Enforcers PA-48 (N481PE)and (N482PE) were built in 1984. These were completely different and new aeroplanes sharing very little with P-51. Both survived one is in PimaASM Tucson, second at AFTM Edwards. So here are two beautiful pictures of PE-1

Guys, please let us stick with the research topic and keep the chit-chat for the general discussion .

Beautiful and precise work combined with a great attention to detail. 👍

44-13257, NACA 108, beautifully restored to flying condition. Needless to say that the healthy amount of flying P-51s are actually Cavaliers. 1944: Manufactured as a P-51D-5A AF S/N 44-13257 (NAA S/N 109-26890) 1944 Dec, Modified by NAA for high speed research. 1944: NACA, NACA 108 - dive tests until 1949 1957: Nov, sold surplus, N4222A, Charles Snydor 1959: May, N4222A, Trans-Florida Aviation, Sarasota, Fl 1959-67: Stored 1967: Dec 07, N4222A, Remanufactured, Cavalier Mustang II prototype. 1968: Weapons testing at Apalachicola, FL. 1968-71: Chase plane for "Enforcer" project. 1972: N51DL, Lindsay Newspapers Inc, Sarasota FL 1980: N51DL, Lindair Inc, Sarasota FL

It is slowing down for a reason. Time to step up the game. Market is ruthlessly saturated and frankly speaking, as of now I have multiple copies of almost everything 1/32 and 1/24 WW2 from Barracuda. I wanna see some marketing activities, what to expect in the near future, what is in the works? priming the clientele, that is a huge part of it. Demand research, that's a second and equally important part of the story. FB, blogging , on-line presence etc. In another words, sell it to me. Edit: And I just read what Ernie posted above LOL 🤦‍♂️

Stuff I need has been taken care of by the new, young, European companies. Personally I would rather support local market, but it seems to be shrinking somehow.

Is Roy a member here? A direct feedback like this topic means pure gold for the business. Eduard does it, Special Hobby does it and they listening and actively adjusting their product to the customer's buzz. And GROWING exponentially .

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That's pretty much everything that I was able to find, that's why I'm asking for help

Nice tutorials , thank you for sharing.

Holy shihtzu , most impressive and creative work. Way beyond the general modelling abilities, pure art , I dare to say.

Thank you again guys. Yes, that is correct. I had to deal with some family business back in Europe, so the build was interrupted , but truly it falls together like a Lego. if I can do it , anybody can and with much better result.

You are welcome John. I would say 'off white' that is used on modern era airframes. Also there were new parachutes and harness used and naturally the switch console for the weapons, utilizing tires with the post war standard thread. Basically they stripped them to the bare airframe and started all over in their own way. Trans Florida Aviation facility at Sarasota (1961)

You are most welcome guys. Few more shots of langnase mustang.

Ok, finally I got to my old stashed pictures Mainly Turbo prop , but here's a nice shot of F-51 panel

Nice!

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Original Werk Numbers 44-11558 = N6175C 44-72844 = N5076K 44-73027 44-73260 = N5075K 44-73411 = N 551D, N550D 44-73454 = N2051D 44-73584 = N51Q 44-73656 = N5073K 44-73843 = N351D 44-74427 44-74441 44-74453 44-74458 - 44-74459 44-74469 = N7723C 44-74831 44-74854 44-84658 = N7724C 45-11381 = N5471V 45-11489 = N5421V and the new ones assigned by USAF 67-14862 - 67-14866 67-22579 - 67-22582 68-15795 - 68-15796 (used by USAF and US Navy) 72-1536 - 72-1541 A number of contracts were issued to deliver Cavalier Mustangs to various military users. Due to the fact that such conversions were based on airframes that were s.o.c. (struck off charge) by the USAF some 25 years earlier, new FY-serials had to be issued. Military Cavaliers can be found in the '67-, '68, and '72-serial ranges. Countries to receive military Cavaliers were Bolivia, El Salvador and Indonesia. Besides that, many military Mustangs were upgraded with kits supplied by Cavalier, i.e. the aircraft stayed in their countries and saw 'local' rebuild / upgrade with the help of Cavalier representatives. Customers were: Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Indonesia, Bolivia, and probably others.