Big Mac Junior
The Eduard piece for the oil radiator (designed for the Revell kit) is wrong in shape and size.
Canvas boot for the tail gear
Zipper for the canvas boot
Oil radiator, front
Oil radiator, rear
Mustang smile, made from aluminum sheet
Correcting shape issues.
Aires bay coaxed into the Revell wing
Trumpeter windshield mated to the Revell fuselage
This is how she'll look like
New flaps
Top half wings. Styrene strips were used to blank off the flaps
One of the flaps. Done
Cockpit version number 2 (the Aires resin bent like a banana, not taking chances)
Ribs that might be visible
Material added for the "Malcolm" hood to fit perfectly, just like on real Mustangs that were fitted with it.
Glass armor from behind the windshield
Oxygen hose from stretched sprue and sewing thread
Hydraulic hand pump
Turnover truss
Perfect fit
Backrest cushion made from Milliput
Map case too fat
Map case corrected, flight report holder added
Undercarriage control lever
Emergency canopy release
The new throttle quadrant where it should be
Leather items
Cockpit floor
Warm air tubing
Leather cover version 2
Aires radio undersized, compared to accurate size and shape. Dynamotor to the right
SCR-522 unit with its battery
Fuselage fuel tank dimensions corrected
New floor
Console relocated
New, improved floor sections
Floor fuel gauges
Surface control lock
ID lights control
Radio rack
Right hand cockpit wall
Tiny levers
Dynamotor and rack
Left cockpit wall
Seat support, work in progress
Headrest, bag contains first aid kit
Tail wheel bay
Surgical rod for the main gear
Comments
6 June 2013, 11:16
Clifford Keeslerlooks really nice so far,I love P-51s,was beginning to think I was the only guy out here that built Revell kits.
19 July 2013, 04:25
Arne GreveThis plane was my 2nd Kit in 1:32 I have build. This is almost 20 years ago. When I see the problem with the kit, I remember, I had them too. It seems, Revell doesn´t changed the problem in the last 20 years.
19 July 2013, 10:44
Flemming Forsberglooks nice, i will follow you and learn, i like your clean way to show your progress, i will think about that, i just put all upp, like a bad newspapir lol, thumbs upp dude
19 July 2013, 11:26
Florin MoldovanThe Revell kit, in spite of its age, is shape-wise better than the Trumpeter kit, and as the Rutman resin Razorback is out of my reach, this is the only way for me to go. Hope you enjoy, I'm having a blast with this one!
19 July 2013, 14:10
Phil MarcheseI m not liking the drawing. There are several Mustang drawing showing that drastic drop in top profile amid the exhaust stacks. Go back to some good inflight pictures with a fairly clean profile and make your own call. The kit spinner plate stood up is propaply right. Since it is circular if its breaeth is right so is its height and if the thrust line is right...
17 October 2014, 22:55
Florin MoldovanThe line drawings are from Airframe & Miniature no.6, The North American P-51 Early Mustang by Richard A. Franks, enlarged to 1:32nd. Please take a really good look at them and tell me if there is something wrong.
18 October 2014, 05:18
Kerry COXI remember the "Phantom Mustang" when it was re released in the late 90's and nothing had changed to improve the tooling, and It looks the same here with rivets that look like bolts. You have done an excellent job in taming this Mustang.
1 November 2014, 17:15
Kerry COXAnd the caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly. Its really turning out that way Florin. Well done mate. 🙂
12 November 2014, 19:44
Alexander Perovlooking at the photo you can see that the model itself is just bad especially for this scale and to collect just out of the box beautiful model will not work and have a lot of work good luck
11 January 2015, 10:22
Florin MoldovanWe are in 2015. It is such a pity that the best plastic injection kit for the P-51 B/C available in 1:32nd was first issued in 1969!
It has minor shape issues and it lacks details, but it is not that bad, you have something to work with.
11 January 2015, 11:12
Florin MoldovanThank you! There is still much to be done, but slowly getting there.
18 May 2015, 14:11
Album info
The Revell kit, the cockpit and the landing gear bay from Aires, Scale Aircraft Conversions' metal gear, and from Quickboost the exhausts, underwing pylons and propeller blades, the Eduard set for the Revell kit, and from HGW the seatbelts. It will depict Capt John Brown Jr's bird, using Lifelike Decals set 32-015.
