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War, what is it good for? Asked Edwin Starr. Well apart from driving me crazy masking camo, a good supply of warbirds for excitable men to chuck around the skies in peacetime it seems. Fed up of all that futzing about with RLM this that and the other, I remembered my days in States in the 70s/80s when I was a regular visitor to the Reno Air races and recall fondly , a certain Mr Bob Hoover in a canary yellow Mustang and his wonderful catchphrase “ Gentlemen, you have a race” coming over the Tannoys . Fast forward to SMW 2015 and Greg Drawbaughs stand selling all manner of Reno Racer goodies saw me come home with the decals for the Rockwell F-51/Cavalier. It’ll be a simple conversion as the Airfix F-51 has the required uncuffed prop and bulged canopy that Cavaliers used. Have a bit of hacking to do to get a second seat in where the radio crap is but nothing a razor saw and ignorance can’t cope with. I remember flying a Cavalier in the 80s that belonged to one of our directors and remember that the interior was a nondescript grey and the modernised panel with VOR, audio selector etc. was still black, hence a Yahu P-51 panel and let’s hope no one notices the modern stuff isn’t there. Alclad grey primer looks pretty nondescript so it will be the interior colour. Paint wise, I did extensive research; well I walked to my paint cabinet and decided the Mr Color RLM 04 is close enough. Finally I’m doing another build simultaneously, a new thing for me but hopefully something that can get the 300+ plus stash down quicker... So onwards we go. Anil The Dualist.
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A long and painful build, mostly self inflicted but at long last , its finished. Learnt a lot about spraying yellow, using superglue as a filler, the Airfix P-51 canopy challenge and how to mask a .5mm black stripe on a propeller (hint: use a decal unless you're me). As usual my canopy looks like its been painted by a six inch wide brush wielded by a blind troll. Pretty much lost the ol' mojo for 2 months but it seems to have nipped back chipper as ever. At some point I will replace the canopy with a one piece version from my pile of Hasegawa P-51s so you can see the beautiful Yahu IP. Build here For all of us ageing Reno fans, here is Mr Bob Hoover's pace plane- Ol' Yeller: "Gentlemen, you have a race!" .. . Good night and good gravy Anil
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