Mike Mcellaney

With my first entry almost finished (Big Beautiful Doll), I will enter my second build. It is the Trumpeter 1/32 P-51B with some aftermarket parts She will finished as Bald Eagle flown by Lt Robert T Eckfeldt from the 374th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group The Yellow Jackets As there are no decals available for this scheme in 1/32 scale I have been in touch with Mal from Miracle Masks and he will be producing the masks for the aircraft Here is a photo of the actual aircraft taken from Little Friends This one is taken from Wings Palette Box top and sprue shots These are the aftermarket parts I have for this kit Should be able to make a start on this sometime over the weekend

Coming together nice Les

This is definitely coming together now Mish and looking good

Just had a look at one of my kits, I would paint them black on the inside, these "holes" seam to line up with the .50 cals and look to be the shell ejection ports? hope this helps

Thanks for the comments guys. With a bit of luck will have this finished over the weekend and then I can look about starting the next one. Looking at the Trumpeter 1/32 P-51B with lots of goodies

Well have been cracking on with the decals, got most of then on now, just leaving the nose and wing tip to do Hopefully the next time I post I will have it completed

Well Hurry Would seam these blow your case being rested out of the window

On the home stretch now Mish

Well as you can see things have moved on just a bit from the last update. She is now all closed up, primed and NMF on, plus the Future ready for decals, which will be started tonight.

Nice work there Mish

Nice work on the cockpit

Fantastic work, great F-106

This is today's work on the cockpit, just a couple of bits to add and its completed

Nice work Arnold, this is coming together great

Left side is now completed

Next update, this is the right hand side now completed, the left side is almost completed along with the seat, floor/fuel tank section of the cockpit, with a bit of luck should have these done and posted mid week

Mixture of Kit, Barracuda and Airscale decals

Thanks for clearing that up Julien. Its just you made no reference to the B model in your post which would have saved the question being asked

Julian I think you may have your information a bit wrong if you are saying the 192nd TRS of the Nevada ANG were the only unit to fly the RF 101 what about the following units ARKANSAS ANG 154th TRS / 189th TFG 188th TFG KENTUCKY ANG 165th TRS / 123rd TFG MICHIGAN ANG 127th TRG MISSISSIPPI ANG 186th TRG NEVADA ANG 192nd TRS / 152nd TRG VIRGINIA ANG 149th TRS

About time to, was thinking Mish needs to to get you started

So then lloyd, this has been uo here for almost 15 hours and still no progress, whats the matter you on a go slow

Right finally made a start over the weekend, did not get as much done as I wanted to due to having to work over the weekend But did manage to get the instrument panel completed

AM 1/48th F6 build for the OOB GB here on Britmodeller Tamiya 1/48 Captured P-51B Tamiya 1/32 P-51D

Just found this build, not wanting to put a dampener on your efforts so far, but as you are building a P-51D 5NA which is a early P-51, I have noticed you have used all most all of the late version items in your cockpit ie seat, instrument panel, gun sight side panels etc. From the instructions you should follow the description for aircraft C not A or B What I think has thrown you is the tail fillet on this aircraft, you need to remember this could and was often refitted to early P-51D, this is where research of the aircraft you are building is important. It may very well be that items from a later version were retrofitted to a early version, but if there is no photographic evidence of this on the aircraft you are building I would advise sticking to factory specifications for the model number

Got to agree with Adam on this one, in general the cockpits were US Interior Green. The first Mustangs were if everyone remembers built for and designed for the RAF and the interiors of these early Mustangs with the Alison engines were painted the US version of RAF Interior Green Gets confusing don't it Just to add to the mix there was some P-51's that came out of the Inglewood plant that were painted a "darker shade of interior green" from what I have found out so far it would seam a typing error on the paint mixing instructions issued to Inglewood was the cause And just to make it even more confusing the maintenance manual for the P-51 from 1944 calls for the painting touch up of the interior in "Interior Green" with the seat in a Dull Dark Green Jon The gear doors on a P-51D, when the aircraft was on the ground engine off for any length of time the doors would open as the hydraulic pressure would bleed off and cause them to drop, only closing again when the engine was started and the pressure brought back up to normal. The gear doors on the Alison engine Mustangs were in the closed position when the aircraft was on the ground, if you see a photo of them open its because they have been manual unlocked by the ground crew As for the wheel wells the choice of color is up to you unless you have a original color photo of the aircraft you are building showing the wheel bays, they were left unpainted, painted Zinc Chromate Yellow or Green Agree with you on the instrument panel and the floor but not sure what you refer to as the "side walls directly by the coaming being black as well" as the side walls in the cockpit are IG color only the post war P-51/F-51 had black cockpits