Airfix 1:24 P51 Mustang WIP

[Guest]

Great job getting the pictures up as well. Looking forward to the rest of the build. Do plenty of dry runs with the fuselage halves!

[Guest]

Great job getting the pictures up as well. Looking forward to the rest of the build. Do plenty of dry runs with the fuselage halves!

Oh I intend to. Ive already had a look at it and found some issues to be dealt with. But I shall need to anyway as my 3 year old grandosn has discovered that planes have lights. So Im having a go at installing some fibre optics for him. I shall have to order them next week. Its quite amazing what you can be inspired to do when prompted by someone so young

[Guest]

If you're going for NMF, try Humbrols range of buffable metallics

Humbrol Metalcote, they do ALuminium, polished aluminium, Steel and gunmetal, all of which are very good and buff up nicely and can be clearcoated.

Takes about 30 minutes to be dry enough to buff too though I generally leave mine overnight as per enamels anyway.

That builds looking very good BTW

[Guest]

I guess if you are going to have a powered prop you may as well go the whole hog and have lights fitted as well. That should be quite a novelty and make the model something a bit special. Think about LED's as well, they are almost as small as fibre optics nowadays and don't need the routing care of fibre or the larger source lamp.

[Guest]

Just a quick update. Project stalled for a little while due to an issue with some of the fibre optics I put in. I had put in 0.5mm f/o for the rear and top lights. Checked them over before sealing the fuselage - worked ok. So I sealed up the fuselage, taped it up and left it to dry. When I took the tape off I discovered that one of the f/o cables had broken and where the cables exit the fuselage had not sealed. At this point I had no idea why it had broken. So I resealed the underside of the fuselage and thought nothing of it. That was until I took the tape off and found the other f/o had also broken. Having never used f/o before I was at first baffled until I realised that I had trapped it under the cable and it had obviously suffered. So I now have to ask my self, do I split the fuselage again and reinsert new cables? Or proceed without them? What ever the outcome I've decided the f/o was to fine anyway and will be ordering some slightly thicker cable.

So in the mean time I've started the old Matchbox 1/32 Lysander. Mainly being built oob but I have made a couple of changes already, such as adding a couple of extra supports across the internal frame and carving the pilot's seat back from being a bucket seat to something a little plainer. I believe its meant to be more of a frame than an actual seat.

But a lot of my time this weekend has been spent toying with the idea of having a go at pretty much scratch building a Vomag and mounting either a dragon or tamiya 88mm on the back of it. Yes I know its ambitious considering the Mustang is my first attempt at scratch building anything but Ive gotten hold of "Scale Military Vehicle Conversions" by Duncan Howarth and he has this particular vehicle in it including some plans to show the various parts that need to be cut out. So I thinking on it.

[stona]

I don't think I'd describe any of the seats that I know of fitted to the D model as frames. Some earlier ones were a bit frame like.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

I don't think I'd describe any of the seats that I know of fitted to the D model as frames. Some earlier ones were a bit frame like.Cheers

Steve

Lol - I was refering to the Lysander not the P51. Sorry for the misunderstanding

[colin m]

Antony,

This is looking brilliant - what a monster too. You'll need a new garden shed to house this !

[Guest]

Where did you source your fibre-optics from? I thought about using them for my 1/5th scale Meccano Land Rover but never got round to proceeding any further with it (must build the gearbox one of these days!)