"It's Life Jim, but not as we know it" It's the 453rd Museum's 1/32 P-51D Mustang by Revell.

[The Spadgent]

On 24/05/2021 at 08:08, giemme said:

Agreed 100%  Thanks Antonio, just the kind of info I needed.

 

Same here

Ciao

Oooh I didn’t realise you’d started a museum build until tonight. Looking like you’re going great guns. 🤩

On 24/05/2021 at 21:34, Fritag said:

Impressive painting skills - as ever Johnny.

Thank you. Too kinds 😀

On 24/05/2021 at 23:54, corsaircorp said:

Real good painting my Dear Spad !!

This revell kit look like a good one !!

A good tummy rubbing to zero on my behalf !!

Be carefull, here Angel is oftenly helping the carpet monster....

And even at 9, this pug is fast !!!

Sincerely.

CC

Ahhhh Bless. Look at her. A tummy rub back atcha.  It’s a great kit for sure. I’ll be wanting to build my own soon enough. (But not at the same time eh. 🤪)

On 25/05/2021 at 11:28, CedB said:

Brilliant wood effect Johnny and the other bits look great too.

 

Lovely stuff  

Thanks Mr B. 🤩

[corsaircorp]

53 minutes ago, The Spadgent said:

   I’ll be wanting to build my own soon enough. (But not at the same time eh. 🤪)

 

Why for ???

When there's for one, there's for 2 

And then, you do the job once .... Two birds with one stone...

Okay... I know.... I go back to the nasty corner....

CC

[The Spadgent]

Good evening.

More Mustang action has occurred over the past few days. 🤩 Work is still hectic and as the world opens back up again life is getting more hectic, I guess we must make time, right. 😍 well here’s a few steps of progress.

The wooden panels got masked to re spray the green.

Say Greeeeen. 💚

also painted the brown panel. Although it’ll be under the seat anyway. 
looks quite yellow in this shot but it’s just close to the light. 
Masking off. 

Too clean for my liking but that’ll get fixed in the Flory pass. 🙌

while that dried I got a little emotional over this.

😔 At least I stocked up before they pulled the plug.

Anyway it was out to good use. At last the IP got stuck to it’s plastic counterpart.

The side walls got their PE added too.

And tother side.

Really nice working with this. I think I might get this set for mine when the time comes.

Here’s are the parts this far just before the top coat.

The black strip got painted on the wooden planks and worn off with a cotton bud. The box section got sprayed too. 

Don’t worry. That middle green is a plastic lid in the background. I double took myself when I saw the pic. Kind of throws it off balance. 🤪 That got glossed again ready for some much needed grot. 🙌

This all happened over a few days. So let’s talk weathering. Well I floried most of the bits and after drying I’m liking what I’m seeing so I’m only knocking back slightly.

 The base walls.

 

rear of the seat and head rest.

And the other side.

The main seat.

Fire wall.

Canopy runner.

The side panels came out well.

And on the other side.

This is before I cleaned up the slight pooling of the Flory. Overall I’m happy. A few control stalks to add I can start the construction.  I worked on the clean up tonight and added some Tamiya weather powders but left my phone downstairs so I didn’t get any pics. I’ll sort that tomorrow. Currently there may coat is drying as is the Flory wash on the foot boards. 😇 

By the way change of plan. There seem to be an awful lot of mustangs going to the museum and they all seem to be NMF. So I have decided to change my scheme and go with the other one in the box.

Still stripy. 🐝

Thanks for stopping by. 

No modelling tomorrow as Fencing is back on. 🤺 but there is a Bank holiday coming. 🧘

 

Take care and as always. Happy modelling.

 

 Johnny. 

[hendie]

Really nice work Johnny. Apologies for being late to the show but I'll make an effort to stay in my seat for the remainder

[antonio argudo]

Really nice, your cockpit is now more accurate, looking fenomenal, one point if I may, the rack that goes on top of the fuel tank is also black instead of green, here are some unrestored examples, cheers

 

 

 

NAA assembly line  footage 

 

 

 

 

[giemme]

Impressive job, Johnny   I particularly like the wood effect on the floor  

 

Ciao

[The Spadgent]

17 hours ago, corsaircorp said:

Why for ???

When there's for one, there's for 2 

And then, you do the job once .... Two birds with one stone...

Okay... I know.... I go back to the nasty corner....

CC

Oi. What have I told you. 🤪🤣

15 hours ago, hendie said:

Really nice work Johnny. Apologies for being late to the show but I'll make an effort to stay in my seat for the remainder

No need to apologise. Glad to have you around. 

14 hours ago, antonio argudo said:

Really nice, your cockpit is now more accurate, looking fenomenal, one point if I may, the rack that goes on top of the fuel tank is also black instead of green, here are some unrestored examples, cheers

 

 

 

NAA assembly line  footage 

 

 

 

 

Hell’s bells!!! As it’s for Jim I guess I’ll make the change. I do wish the instructions were correct sometimes. 😩. Thank you for the info though. Very kind. 😍😄

9 hours ago, giemme said:

Impressive job, Johnny   I particularly like the wood effect on the floor  

 

Ciao

Thanks G. Looks like we’re both on stang duty eh. 😇

[CedB]

Very nice internals Johnny, impressive  

[Biggles87]

Seconded.

[The Spadgent]

On 27/05/2021 at 18:14, CedB said:

Very nice internals Johnny, impressive  

Thanks Ced. A few wobbles with the seat today but all good in the end. 😀

On 27/05/2021 at 20:50, Biggles87 said:

Seconded.

Thank you. 🤩

[The Spadgent]

Whhhhaaaa? A sunny Bank holiday weekend in half term? Who da thunk it. 😲☀️🐝

Most of the time has been spent in the garden but I have managed some bench time this morning. As mentioned to Ced I had a close shave with the seat fixings but we’ll get to that in a minute.

 First up I had to re paint that frame work. 
Done and dusted. Literally. With Tamiya powders. 😀

The iP got knocked back a little. It’s a bit harsh in this pic but in situ it’s fine.

So here we are. All ready to go together.

A few close ups so you can see the wash. I’m happy with the way they have turned out. 

The tube got glued. You have to chop off the connecting pin at the back of the pipe if you have fitted the PE set as other wise it gets fouled at the rear.

Now two words of warning if you’re going to build this kit. It’s not the kit but a bit of a rubbish instruction manual:

one.

This is not the connection point for the IP. It looks like that’s what the instructions say but it’s actually quite a bit higher.

Two.

See the way seat spots proud of the seat bracket? Well that’s wrong. It kind of dominoes into a whole heap of things not fitting. 😩

only thing for it is a bit of TET and some scalpel persuasion. Here’s the part after much panic and twitchy bending of plastic.

It all got glued and held in place.

This is the correct location. A nice shot of the worn grip material on the foot plates. ❤️

Luckily there are lots of connection points that I didn’t see originally that when you put it all together give that satisfying “Click” here’s one. 

Also with the IP sitting too low the pedals don’t reach their connection point. Cousin thoughts of extending the part etc but raising it to the correct position caused everything to just “Click”. Notice the two IP connectors sitting on the top runner. That’s what you want. 

Now the seat is the right height and I can fit all the other bits.

Huzzah.  Hopefully now the right colour.

With that little panic over I decided to do a lot more dry fitting.

The intakes and the rear landing gear bay are one sun assembly.

The bay is Zinc Chromate but does anyone know what the internals of the intakes are? 
these bits.

And from the other side. I’m assuming black/ metallic but I can’t be sure and the instructions have no call outs as such.

The front Wells got glued too while I was at it.

And more dry fitting.

Looks like an aeroplane.

Some more internals visible as part of the wing section.

Although when the tub is fitted will hardly be seen.

A bit of clean up and I think this one is going to come together quite quickly.

 Here we are for now.

Maybe a bit more later.

 

 Thanks for all the kind words and I hope you all had a splendid weekend.

 

Jont. 🐎

[giemme]

Those internals came along really nice, Johnny!    

 

Maybe I missed it, can you please tell what kind of green have you been using for the cockpit? TIA

Ciao

[The Spadgent]

46 minutes ago, giemme said:

Those internals came along really nice, Johnny!    

 

Maybe I missed it, can you please tell what kind of green have you been using for the cockpit? TIA

Ciao

Thanks G. 
As you know I use Tamiya acrylics. I was having trouble finding a good match for this green but someone suggested a mix of:

Yellow XF-3 and green XF-5 at a ratio of 2:1  so two yellow and one green. Seems to look pretty close.  Hope that helps.

J

[giemme]

10 minutes ago, The Spadgent said:

Thanks G. 
As you know I use Tamiya acrylics. I was having trouble finding a good match for this green but someone suggested a mix of:

Yellow XF-3 and green XF-5 at a ratio of 2:1  so two yellow and one green. Seems to look pretty close.  Hope that helps.

J

Thanks Johnny   - that is the same indication you can find on the Tamiya kit instructions. I was wondering if the Tamiya XF-71 Cockpit Green was a good match too, although by the looks of it, it probably need some yellow added too...  Or maybe I'm totally off with that....

 

Ciao

[The Spadgent]

1 hour ago, giemme said:

Thanks Johnny   - that is the same indication you can find on the Tamiya kit instructions. I was wondering if the Tamiya XF-71 Cockpit Green was a good match too, although by the looks of it, it probably need some yellow added too...  Or maybe I'm totally off with that....

 

Ciao

I was going to use XF71 but it didn’t look “juicy” enough to me so the mix happened and I thought it looked good and ran with it.   BTW I found on the instructions it says either Zinc Chromate or silver for the vent internals. I think I’m going for Zinc. Hope that’s right? 🤔

Also does any one know if it’s ok to have the two lower vents open when landed? I wanted to do that.

 

Johnny.

[CedB]

Nice work Jont - especially the worn floor; excellent  

[Fritag]

Beautiful painting of the cockpit Johnny.  Really brings it to life.

[tango98]

You’re doing some nice work there Jon. Now I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but if you are going to finish

it as Pascoe’s Desert Rat P-51D-5 or not but the early D’s did not have that small scoop on the left hand cowling panel just above the leading edge of the wingroot.

If memory serves this scoop was only added when the battery location was changed on the later airframes (-20 and above

IIRC)

 

Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing the finished product.

 

Cheers

Dave

[VT Red Sox Fan]

Johnny, just catching up--this looks great--looking forward to how you will sort out the main gear bays.  Have you given any consideration to foil for this build?  Best, Erwin

[The Spadgent]

14 hours ago, CedB said:

Nice work Jont - especially the worn floor; excellent  

Thanks Mr B

14 hours ago, Fritag said:

Beautiful painting of the cockpit Johnny.  Really brings it to life.

Thankyou sir. 

13 hours ago, tango98 said:

You’re doing some nice work there Jon. Now I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but if you are going to finish

it as Pascoe’s Desert Rat P-51D-5 or not but the early D’s did not have that small scoop on the left hand cowling panel just above the leading edge of the wingroot.

If memory serves this scoop was only added when the battery location was changed on the later airframes (-20 and above

IIRC)

 

Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing the finished product.

 

Cheers

Dave

Thanks Dave.

This thing? 

10 hours ago, VT Red Sox Fan said:

Johnny, just catching up--this looks great--looking forward to how you will sort out the main gear bays.  Have you given any consideration to foil for this build?  Best, Erwin

Thanks Erwin. “Sort out the main gear”? They look ok to me. Is there something I should know? 😯

[tango98]

That’s the one John.

 

Cheers

Dave

[The Spadgent]

1 hour ago, tango98 said:

That’s the one John.

 

Cheers

Dave

Thanks. Just found out about the real  aeroplane.  Now I know where to look.

Thanks for your help. 👏🤩😇😀

[AdrianMF]

Cockpit looks gorgeous!

 

Regards,

Adrian

[alt-92]

2 hours ago, The Spadgent said:

Thanks Erwin. “Sort out the main gear”? They look ok to me. Is there something I should know? 😯

Maybe he means the wheel bays.

Like this:

(via this thread)

 

[VT Red Sox Fan]

Johnny, I did not see your work on the bays on the thread—given the caliber of your work I know you will hit the main gear bays out of the park—between you and G, I am curious how you both will conquer the YZC/NMF finish of this area.  FWIW, you may recollect I used foil for my 1/72d build—but I am not in your league, so I look forward to learning—best, Erwin