Tonys chinese liberation air force mustang

[Allen Dewire]

Dang Tony, Looks like the holiday really got the Mojo flying, back at the bench!!! The IP is fantastic, as well as all the very green internal thingy's. For a moment, I thought you would make the seatbelts out of wine foil again. Luckily you had some in the stash, or have you run out of wine...........Nice work Sir!!!...................

Prost
Allen

[Mickc1440]

That cockpit looks fantastic, pasties and cream teas have certainly worked their magic

[Mark1]

Looks the part so far Tony.

[adt70hk]

Very nice indeed Tony. That's coming on beautifully!

ATB.

Andrew

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Tony. Office is really smart, especially for the scale.

[Jim R]

Your hols have certainly done you good judging by this model. The cockpit looks great. It could easily be taken for a well made 1/48 scale.

[yak face]

Bit more done , ive filled the panel lines on the leading edges of the wings as they did in real life , and sorted the seams out on the fuselage

[colin m]

Another brave soul deleting his detail - I just couldn't do it.

[yak face]

Filler all smoothed off now and wings on. I had to sand a bit off the wing tops at the fuselage joint so they fitted flush but easy enough to do and only a couple of lines to rescribe. Ive been looking at the machine guns and the kit ones are a bit lifeless , to be expected really at this scale , so after a clean up I sanded them off and drilled them out with a 0.8 mm bit . They will be replaced with brass tubing which has been cut already but will be added last off to prevent them getting blocked up with primer/ paint etc.
While i had the micro drills out I drilled the exhaust stubs with a 0.5 mm bit ( i must be mental ) , tricky work but they look a bit better now.
The reflector screen on the gunsight has been added from holographic confetti and
the windscreen and canopy have been very carefully removed from the sprue and the attachment points cleaned up and repolished . This is the only bit of the kit that could be better , the rear canopy frame is separate and the windscreen has no framing on the bottom edge. Most other makers have the rear section all in one piece which is better in my opinion , no join to worry about . Anyway the windscreen is masked and fitted , the rear section will be added last off.

[adt70hk]

Brilliant work again Tony!!

[Jim R]

Real care and skill on show here Tony. The whole build looks quality.

[yak face]

Got the main airframe primed today , matt black on the wings and gloss on everything else . Next up the olive drab anti glare panel .

[Mark1]

Taking shape nicely:thumb2:

[Mickc1440]

You really are making a superb job of this Tony

[yak face]

Got the olive drab on for the anti glare panel , going to give this a good 24 hours to cure before masking it off ready for the silver colours to go on .