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    1/32 P-51B Bald Eagle 361st Fighter Group

    in Mustang Single Type Group Build

    Posted · Edited by 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 :D

    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

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    This one is taken from Wings Palette

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    Box top and sprue shots

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    These are the aftermarket parts I have for this kit

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    Should be able to make a start on this sometime over the weekend

    Tamiya 1/48 RAF Mustang III

    in Mustang Single Type Group Build

    Posted

    Thanks for the feedback guys, glad I'm not the only one with the poor opinion of Verlinden resin!

    I have a question now... on the lower wing there are two largish square holes that don't seem to do anything or have anything in them

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    So what are they and what should I do about them? As you can see I have just attached the lower wing to the fuselage so now is the time to do something with them. Should I paint the inside of the upper wing interior green or black or what?

    Thanks in advance...

    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

    Dirty kits...

    in Resources

    Posted

    North Africa:

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    Europe:

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    Pacific:

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    I rest my case... clean and maintained even in the field. ;):Dlol

    Regards,

    Hurry

    Well Hurry

    Would seam these blow your case being rested out of the window :)

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    Rf-101 VooDoo

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    Yes the 192nd TRS were the only people to fly the RF-101B and that was only for a couple of years as they were a bit of a white elephant.

    Julien

    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

    Rf-101 VooDoo

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    Great model.

    Also pretty good that you new someone who flew one. As they were only used by the 192nd Tac Recon Sqn of the Nevada ANG from 1972 to 1975 there cant be a massive pool of pilots who flew them.

    Julien

    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

    P-51 'Da Quake'

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    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

    Mustang Group Build Chat

    in Mustang Single Type Group Build

    Posted

    Hi Chris, in general wheel bays of most NMF P-51Ds were silver/ aluminium, with only the back wall ( in reality the main wing spar) being in the yellow chromate primer.

    Main gear doors are seen in various colours - though as they are normally in the closed position when the AC is on the ground this is maybe moot.

    Cockpit colour is more likely to be Dull Dark Green ( rather than the usual interior green most people think of) - but in actual fact, modelling wise, once you paint your pit in interior green and wash it and scuff it up a bit - it will look the same. I'd say H-80 would suffice for this, though add a little black and a tiny little bit of blue to it if you want dull dark green- it will just knock back the "apple-greeny-ness"

    In the instrument panel, instrument panel coaming underside is black, as are the side walls directly by the coaming too. Floor was finished in an anti slip black paint - though this often scuffed through to show the wooden floor by the rudder pedals. Dont be fooled by restorations showing a varnished wood floor! ( though it does look nice)

    HTH

    Jonners

    DDG for a Mustang cockpit? I'm pretty sure that's incorrect, Mustang cockpits were IG from the start of P-51 production. A Mustang I *might* be DDG, but anything later would be IG. Biggest problem with IG is it isn't that bright Candy Apple Green that so many IG paints actually are, it's duller.

    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

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