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I come a bit late to the build as I was saving up my project for my summer holiday, which started on 13 July and which I have only just come back from. With my very intermittent internet access I decided to save my updates until I got home, and here is the first of them... I took as my subject FR901, a P-51A Mustang (Mustang Mk II), used for long-range ferry tank trials. It is illustrated in "The North American P-51 Early Mustang" and on the web, including some very fine photographs on Pozefilms.de. The pictures date from July 1943. For my base kit I used two reboxings of the venerable Frog P-51A/Mustang MkII kit, one from the limited Novo release, and the other from an unidentified Eastern European manufacturer. I cross-kitted, using the main components from the no-name kit (which whilst softer in detail had fewer sink-marks than Novo) with the latter's markedly crisper detailed parts. To supplement this base I also purchased Quickboost exhausts (which I will not now be using as I do not think they are correct for this particular machine) a Pavla canopy and some paper instrument panels. The cockpit fittings came from MPM's P-51 kit, where they had been rendered superfluous by the resin cockpit parts provided. I had already built another iteration of the FROG/Novo kit as FR919 of No. 2 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, and retained and reused the instructions from this kit to support the build. I chose these kits as they were cheap and readily available and I knew that, although basic, they made-up well. The two base kits together cost around £8, and I got a CBI-theatre P-51A out of the remaining parts, plus leftover decals from when I made FR919. Aftermarket parts came to around £5.50 excluding postage. Having gathered the necessary parts, my first step was to annotate my instructions with the changes required, to write myself out a step-by-step illustrated build guide and to begin measuring-up the alterations required to the inboard wing leading edge to bring it to the correct profile. I also took the opportunity of researching the detail of the wheel wells.
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