Hasegawa P-51D 1/48

[Knaupel]

Hi Guys,

 

it´s time for a new project.  I will build the famous P-51D in 1/48 and will use the old Hasegawa kit.

Also the Aires wheel bay and the True details cockpit. I will not use the Kit decals..... but have not yet decided which decals I will use.... Maybe a blue nose?

 

 

The True Details sidewalls fit perfect and are a 100% better than the Kit parts

First steps of painting the interior. As always I use Revell Aqua Color. The Interior green is a mix of light green, sand and brown.

 

The very nice detailed True Detail Seat, gun sight and instrument panel

 

It was a bad decision to add the Aires wheel well into this kit. A lot of work will be needed to fix this....

 

Cheers

Pete

 

 

Edited October 25, 2016 by Knaupel
added better prictures

[wellzy]

Nice start your colour's look good , good luck with your build 

 

Les

[Knaupel]

Hi all,

I´m still working on my P-51D and it took some time to show you some progress. Continued painting all the details in the cockpit and I am happy how it came out.

 

I used a brown oil wash and a light grey for drybrushing.

The True Detail Cockpit is all the money worth.

I tried to do the wooden floor and think it looks ok.

 

The "milky" glasses are wet clear coat to reproduce the classes in the cockpit.

Did not cut all the resin under the seat, black paint will hide it.

 

All together, just before clossing the fuselage.

 

 

You need to cut the Hasegawa parts to fit with the new pit.

The fuselage fit is overall good, but needs some filler in some area.

Filled, sanded, rescribbt and polished

Close up of front fuselage.

Next, reworking the wheel well area. I wanted to cover the gaps (blue) and glued a piece of grey plastic on the gap.

All done, this looks much better than before and I´m pretty happy with my work.   Please visit my Blog for more: Pete´s Mancave

[Keeto™]

Looking good, good rescue of wheel wells there.

[Knaupel]

Thank you Keeto, just started to rework the flaps.... Hope I could tell some news soon.

Pete 

Edited November 6, 2016 by Knaupel

[Knaupel]

While looking on WWII pictures I saw most of the landing flaps down. Mostly than the Mustang was parked a while.

I didn´t think much about and used the saw. But it´s not a piece of cake I thought....

 

I used the Trumpeter engraving tool to deepen the flaps until I could break them out.

 

I glued the wings and the elevators. Tamiya tape helped to get the correct angle. 

 

This are the holes to close and bring the landing flaps into the right position.

 

After a while of sanding, filling, cluing, start again with sanding, filling, cluing I achieved this.

 

I think it looks ok.👍 I will use some flaps I found in the deep of my mancave.... First I planed to use the Hasegawa flaps but I realized my plan failed. 

 

Cheers

Pete

[Knaupel]

 

 

Next steps on my Mustangs is to dive the clear parts in "Future (Pledge?)". It does not have to be "Future". Important is that it is a sealing for wood floors (e.g., parquet). This treatment makes the parts more transparent, shiny and protected. It even allows processing with super glue.

 

 

To dry, I put the parts in a plastic box, which protects them from dust and "clumsy movements"

I let them in there for allmost 48 hours

Meanwhile I prepared the right wing for installing the landing flap.

I also re-engraved and riveted some lost details in front of the wheel well.

The guns in the wing look really poor.... I have to rework this....

much better I used 0,9mm injection cannula I´ve bought in a pharmacy. Cutted with my Dremel  in 5mm pieces and the ring around the gun barrels is a 0,5mm wire, bent to a ring.

still a lot of work to do here..... filling, sanding polishing... Time to think about the painting....

 

[Blitz23]

Looks like alot of work still but making good progress.