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Tim's F-51D Korean War Mustang - COMPLETED


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Starting the GB with this Airfix offering.  This will be an OOB build.

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This one cost me 7.99 at Ian Allen Manchester branch in May this year.  Later bought another from Home Bargains!

And here's my Mustang build for GB II.

 

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Hello Again

 From my experience  the Airfix Mustang suffers from a bent landing gear leg on almost all the kits I already built however I plan to build some more for this Gb but this time I will use Scale Aircraft Conversions sets  https://www.scalemates.com/kits/193003-scale-aircraft-conversions-72057-p-51d-f-51d-mustang-iv-landing-gear...  Building this kit also it requires some dry fitting tests before assembling the fuselage with the wings ...

 

Patrice

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And now for my previous Mustangs.

First an Academy P-51B

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Hasegawa  P-51B

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Hasegawa P-51D

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Italeri P-51A

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Revell P-51B

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Revell Mustang III Malcolm Hood.

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Hasegawa P-51D

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Airfix P-51D

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Airfix P-51B

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Matchbox Mustang IV

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And finally my most recent Airfix P-51D Firewall

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I had wondered why there was no mass stampede of wild horses at the start. . .just picked up on the change of start date.

Putting this build on ice for 3 weeks now.  I've painted a few cockpit parts - but no assembly as yet.

See you again on 22 Oct.

 

In the meantime - here are the parts.

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It does suffer the pre-warned bent undercarriage - which I found during my Firewall build.

 

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Resuming this build.  Well done to Airfix for announcing a 1/48 Mustang kit.

This is how we do Mustangs.

A bit of preparation painting during the lay-off,  

BUT during that time I've interviewed successfully and found a new post.

 

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