Lee's P-51 Mustang GB. The chat thread.

[Mark1]

This is what I got coming,hopefully I can make a good job of it.

[Lee Drennen]

This one
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Nice choice Ian

[Lee Drennen]

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Mark I like the Box Art very nice thanks for sharing

[Lee Drennen]

I'm building its baby brother!
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Nice one Ian. Glad you could join us

[yak face]

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Nice one mark , I recently got the Weekend edition of this kit and can honestly say its one of the most thoughtfully designed and superbly tooled kits Ive ever seen . The quality of Eduards moulding nowadays is on a par with the best and the detail supplied surpasses Tamiya etc in my opinion. The price is round about £20 for the weekend edition so an absolute bargain too for what you get . Cheers tony

[JR]

Now be ready for this , I'm going to enter with a Airfix " Top Gun Maverick model .1/72
Yes you may think I've been converted but a neighbour kindly gave this to me last year for storing his late father's car on part of our drive .Didn't think I would ever built this, but seeing this group build , well what a chance !
Whish me luck, so far I can't find any tracks in the kit so that's a good thing. Off to see if the Russians ever had any ?

They did indeed .

[yak face]

Now be ready for this , I'm going to enter with a Airfix " Top Gun Maverick model .1/72
Yes you may think I've been converted but a neighbour kindly gave this to me last year for storing his late father's car on part of our drive .Didn't think I would ever built this, but seeing this group build , well what a chance !
Whish me luck, so far I can't find any tracks in the kit so that's a good thing. Off to see if the Russians ever had any ?

They did indeed .
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But not the p51d mark which is what you have john . The soviets only received a handful of mk1s ( as in the pic above ) and they never saw combat , only being used for evaluation and training. An alternative is the little known use of the p51d by the communist chinese airforce see here https://plane-encyclopedia.com/cold-...inese-service/ . A very unusual rarely seen modelled option . Im sure that between all us wingies we could scrape together some chinese decals for you comrade

[The Smythe Meister]

This will be my entry,stock photo, but I've had one in the stash for a while

[Mark1]

Nice one mark , I recently got the Weekend edition of this kit and can honestly say its one of the most thoughtfully designed and superbly tooled kits Ive ever seen . The quality of Eduards moulding nowadays is on a par with the best and the detail supplied surpasses Tamiya etc in my opinion. The price is round about £20 for the weekend edition so an absolute bargain too for what you get . Cheers tony

I've only built one eduard kit so far but was impressed enough to order a few more for the stash they do seem to to be very good quality and sensibly priced

[JR]

But not the p51d mark which is what you have john . The soviets only received a handful of mk1s ( as in the pic above ) and they never saw combat , only being used for evaluation and training. An alternative is the little known use of the p51d by the communist chinese airforce see here https://plane-encyclopedia.com/cold-...inese-service/ . A very unusual rarely seen modelled option . Im sure that between all us wingies we could scrape together some chinese decals for you comrade

Yes Tony I realised this after seeing the Russian version, thanks for the information on the Chinese version. A shame about the Russian one so will built it as it is !!!

[yak face]

I was going to watch this one from the sidelines , even though I’ve got the Eduard 1/48 weekend p 51d in the stash . I figured that at my build rate I wouldnt be able to do that one in the three months , its a very detailed kit with a lot of parts . BUT …… a recent conversation with John ( Race , see above ) about Soviet and more importantly Chinese PLAAF aircraft , a quick shufti on Ebay and look what happened
So looks like I’m in ! Just got to source some chinese decals and off we go on sept 1st ! Cheers tony

[adt70hk]

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You were weak and spineless and gave into temptation.....says he who's 'acquired' over a dozen kits this year alone...

[Lee Drennen]

Now be ready for this , I'm going to enter with a Airfix " Top Gun Maverick model .1/72
Yes you may think I've been converted but a neighbour kindly gave this to me last year for storing his late father's car on part of our drive .Didn't think I would ever built this, but seeing this group build , well what a chance !
Whish me luck, so far I can't find any tracks in the kit so that's a good thing. Off to see if the Russians ever had any ?

They did indeed .
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Wow John thanks for joining in and I never new the Red Air force had these

[Lee Drennen]

I was going to watch this one from the sidelines , even though I’ve got the Eduard 1/48 weekend p 51d in the stash . I figured that at my build rate I wouldnt be able to do that one in the three months , its a very detailed kit with a lot of parts . BUT …… a recent conversation with John ( Race , see above ) about Soviet and more importantly Chinese PLAAF aircraft , a quick shufti on Ebay and look what happened[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1180792[/ATTACH]
So looks like I’m in ! Just got to source some chinese decals and off we go on sept 1st ! Cheers tony

Tony thanks for joining in and the efforts to do so glad to have you.

[Lee Drennen]

You were weak and spineless and gave into temptation.....says he who's 'acquired' over a dozen kits this year alone...

In that case Andrew am very weak and no back bones lol