Revell P-51D Mustang - 2nd time around

[Kaireckstadt]

Copy Gary: Great tutorial Peter! 

[Peterpools]

Hubert

It's been a long week with doctor appointments and normal house hold things and of course, what modeling time I had, I was learning the ins and outs of the new Eduard decals.  Looking forward to hitting the bench and the P-51 tomorrow

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Phil

Glad I could pass a long what I learned and for my money, it seems as if Eduard has a good thing going with their new decals. See what happens on the Mustang.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Mike

So glad to do the test and share the results with everyone. I've learned so much from all the guys, it was a pleasure to 'give back' something of value.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks Kent

It was my pleasure to sure what I discovered and it also was fun in it's own way

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Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks Kai

Hope it helps anyone using Eduard's new decals and knowing what to expect.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[KevinM]

Anything on the War Front??

[Peterpools]

Hi Kev

Yup

Just about finished sanding and polishing and then will be ready to prime. checking to see how I did. Nothing new at this stage to see or show. I've also been tinkering with a Tamiya 48th scale Tomcat, as I needed periodic breaks from the sandpaper and scribing work. Any luck, an update next week.Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

PRIMING TIME

11/30/21

Over the past few weeks, I’ve shied away from the Mustang, as I first needed to complete my Eduard decal tests and also realized I reached the stage of needing to devote 100% of my bench time to finishing the Mustangs primer prep. The few remaining parts that needed to be added prior to priming were taken care of and a valuable lesson learned: read and re-read the instructions, as I thought I could add a few parts just before priming and guess what; no, you can’t. So, a bit of backtracking was in order.

The radiator doors were added – fit was so-so. I also decided to not cut apart the gear doors and use the single, uncut part to protect the gear bay during painting and paint them separately later on.

Both the front wind screen and canopy are only tacked in place with Kristal Klear, so I can remove them 🤞 and clean up any fogging after painting if needed. Of course, in my rush, I managed to tack the front wind screen in as crooked as possible and I’ll correct that shortly.  

Primer of choice: MRP Light Gray Primer

Gloss Black Base: Tamiya LP1

I was pretty annoyed at myself as I found some very light sanding marks on the wings, requiring a thorough wet sanding and polishing with 600 through 6000. The wings looked good now and were ready for a new round of priming. 

I went very thin on the MRP Primer, as I’m going to be following up with the Gloss Black Base and wanted to keep the layers of paint down to a manageable level. The primer was air brushed on with an Iwata Revolution with a .5 tip helping to insure a nice wide spray pattern.

I was quite surprised that the scribing came out better then I thought and one area I need to concentrate on in the future is to keep the panel lines on the light side and not too deep. I could still play around with touching up a few panel lines that needed to be made more prominent but I’m done tempting fate. I found only one seam that needs a bit of filler and then it’s time for the gloss black base.

I’m still pondering the actual paint for the Mustang’s wings which in reality was an aluminum paint and really shouldn’t have anywhere the metallic finish as the fuselage. Pretty much have settled on:

Fuselage base color: AK 479 Aluminum

Wings: Alclad ALC 116 Semi Matte Aluminum.

I’m also puzzled as to why I see so many Mustangs with the ammo doors painted a different shade of aluminum – wouldn’t it be the same aluminum paint?

Keep ‘em comin

Peter

 

 

[Spitfire]

Looking mighty impressive, the P51D always looks very modern to me compared with it other WW2 fighters.

Cheers

Dennis

[Bomber_County]

…..more please 

[BlrwestSiR]

Looks very nice there Peter.

I wonder if the ammo doors weren't painted which would explain their different shade. The wings were puttied which is why they got painted but I don't think the ammo doors were. 

Carl

[KevinM]

5 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Looks very nice there Peter.

I wonder if the ammo doors weren't painted which would explain their different shade. The wings were puttied which is why they got painted but I don't think the ammo doors were. 

Carl

Sounds very plausible.Keep up the good work ole Man.

[GazzaS]

Looks very sharp, Peter.  Regarding your question on the ammo doors...   might just be artistic license.

[Peterpools]

Thanks Dennis

Agreed, for me The Mustang was the class of the field, as she had it all: speed, maneuverability, firepower, incredible range, gorgeous look and the icing on the cake: mating her with the RR Merlin engine - the icing on the cake.

Making progress and getting ready to figure lout how to apply Tamiya's new Gloss Black Lacquer, as I've never used it before for a NMF base.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks Phil

Coming up in a few days as I'm getting ready to dove into the gloss black base syndrome. 🤞

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Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks Carl

Never thought of the ammo doors as not being painted and actually left as unpainted aluminum - it surely would explain a lot. I'm going to try and do some research on it today.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

 

[Peterpools]

Thanks Kev

Much appreciated and completely agree with Carl's explanation - makes a lot of sense.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks gaz

Much appreciated and that's the other side of the coin. I'm going to spend some time today trying to find out which is correct.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Landlubber Mike]

Looking good Peter - getting to the primer stage is a big step!

[harv]

Yep, looks like a Stang. Carry on sir ! .....harv 

[Kaireckstadt]

Great progress Peter! The first step is done. Now the fun part begins. Curious how the Stang will look like with first color on it.

[KevinM]

Peter when I use Alclad Black lacquer Primer a slightly cool room seems to keep the paint from gooing on the forks around the tip of my Badger Renegade.

[Peterpools]

Thanks Mike

I'm there and no real issues. The black gloss base is also on. needs a bit TLC and then the NMF begins.

One issue I am having is Revell's plastic is very soft and seems to grab and magnify the slightest of sanding marks. Just extra prep work that we really shouldn't have to do.

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Peterpools]

Thanks Harv

Making some nice progress and looking forward to tackling the NMF portion of the build.

Keep 'em comin

Peter