Jerry Rutman P-51B build

[Clunkmeister]

Yeah I know, not another boring Mustang build, but I’ve been putzing away at this for awhile now, scraping, sanding, fitting, and just generally making a mess.

I refuse to let this one linger on the SOD, especially since I have just about every bit of AM needed to finish her off in grand style.

It’s time to show off the masterpiece of one of the true pioneers of accurate 1/32 resin kits. 

 

[Clunkmeister]

What’s amazing is that the whole mess almost even fits!

[Clunkmeister]

This is kinda what I have in mind.

[Wumm]

So... this is a Jerry Rutman maybe?

S

[Clunkmeister]

6 minutes ago, Wumm said:

So... this is a Jerry Rutman maybe?

S

Yup, I’ve been playing with it off and on for a year.  I finally have the fuselage fitting pretty decent. Not that I really tried hard.

[Wumm]

I have his Ta152... the later copy with the resin wings. Don't sell yourself short, if the Mustang is anything like the Ta then there's quite a bit of effort to get it to mate up. It's well detailed, but there's a lot of resin to remove and dry-fitting to be done.

Are there decals available?

[Peterpools]

Ernie

Never such a thing as another Mustang - yawn. It’s a Mustang and nothing more need to be said.

Let’s get building

Peterl

[Mikester]

Cool project.  thinking of doing the GMF Hs 129 before the Z-m comes out, if I wait I'll never build it!

[JohnB]

I still am hoping we get a new plastic one before I get too old to build!!

[Peterpools]

John

Now that would be fantastic!

Peter

[Clunkmeister]

Well, this is my Service to all my friends in the modeling community.  I am building a resin P-51B and upon the final matte coat, just know that a state of the art, 100% accurate injected kit will hit the market.

 

[Peterpools]

Ernie

I'm going to hold you to it so we finally get our long awaited and much needed P-51B. Of course, we can't thank you enough.

Peter

[Clunkmeister]

Just more fitting of the major parts. Everything actually fits well, very well, considering it’s probably THE kit that started the trend to high scale fidelity 1/32 models.

 

[Clunkmeister]

The scoop is a drop fit.

 

 

[Clunkmeister]

Canopy is vac of course. Yay!  I love resin. I hate vac.   But this ain’t so bad because we get a bucking board/template for the canopy. Plus a spare canopy in case I bork up the first one. Onward

 

 

 

[Peterpools]

Ernie

Looks pretty good right out of the box. I think I can see the canopy framing - is it well defined and just doesn't photgraph well at this point?

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Clunkmeister]

It is there Peter, just faint. It’s on the block as well. A Malcolm hood would be cool but there’s nothing out there

[Clunkmeister]

We have some AM, too.

 

[Grunhertz]

Ooh lots of extras. Watching this one for sure 

[Peterpools]

Ernie

Going to be a great build and just love your signature ... now that's an airplane - taildraggers forever

Peter

[Bomber_County]

Swee...............t hitting follow now.......... more pics........

[Clunkmeister]

Thanks guys. This is a real dust making project. The entire thing is resin, including the AM. Fun and games.   I’ll try to do Jerry’s creation proud. 

[James H]

Makes such a change after endless D builds. Nice to see one of these being built!

[Barry]

Nice start, I'll be watching closely Ernie!

Barry

 

[Peterpools]

Ernie

Hope you have a good respirator or will be doing the major sanding and clean up outside. On all my resin projects or AM sets, that's what I've gone with. Should have been doing this years ago.

Peter