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Hello! Here's my recent project, the iconic P-51D Mustang, the Very Long Range version, operating from Iwo Jima. Kit is Eduard's Tales from Iwo Jima, 1/48. Since is the profiback box, it comes with resin wheels, masks and a lot of PE. Plus, the decals are those you can pell off the film after applied, provided you take some care. You can choose among lots of schemes, all of them very nice and colorful, as they were those days. I've decide to weather mine quiet a bit. After all, fighting from those sandy/dusty/sunny/rainy airstrips, and enduring very long sorties to Japan mainland, escorting B-29's, must have beaten them up hard, I suppose. Apart from the requirement for you to bend a tiny clear part for the landing light (of course, it broke), it all went well. And a few decals, although in general good, simply disintegrated when wet. Talking about decals, I've used one with wood pattern in that twin antennae set behind the cockpit. They were for the Uncle Dog navigation radio set and made of wood! This system allowed the VLR Mustangs to find the B-29s they were escorting, and to find their way back to Iwo Jima. Hope you enjoy! Cheers! George -
Hi fellow britmodellers, inspired by a quarter scale Eduard VLR Mustang kit, I took the Airfix kit and modified it to one of Iwo Jima machines. Decals came from georgeous DK Decal sheet. The mods featured some scribing, making new antennae masts setup and borrowing the 165 US gal tanks from a P-38 kit along with some scratch building for their sway braces etc. Painted with Mr. Color SM range. Cheers. Libor
