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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: draken35 on July 15, 2015, 02:07:28 PM

Title: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on July 15, 2015, 02:07:28 PM: Here we are for what is espected to be a fast building.

the goal is to give a try to AK Xtreme Metal colors.

The kit Airfix is very nice. I will build it quasi from the box, with some minor exceptions like seatbelts added (masking tape from Tamiya) and seat slightly modified with lateral reinforcements.
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 15, 2015, 02:08:08 PM: Work is going fast actually...
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: No.1 on July 15, 2015, 02:11:12 PM: You are excellent for small details
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 15, 2015, 04:19:01 PM: Thank you my friend! :)
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 18, 2015, 07:15:53 PM: Today, first trial with AK Interactive "Xtreme Metal"...

Wow...

I've first airbrushed the black base. It's enamel, but the paint dry in only a few seconds. After that I've airbrushed Polished Aluminium: paint is fluid, used as it is; a pleasure to airbrush and like the black base, it's dry quasi immediately! And the result is amazing: real metal!!!
Then I've used Duraluminium for the zone surrouding the exhausts emplacement. Opening the color, I constated that this one was granulous. In such a case, it's an imperative need to diulte the paint with some thinner, to obtain a perfect fuidity. If fluidity is not there, you will obstruct your airbrush with paint. If fluid, what a real pleasure!!!

To be noted too that I've masked the surrounding zone before to paint Duraluminium. When removing the masks, NO TRACE of pigments on it!!!

Well: first try, that means new technique and experience must be acquired, but I'm really enthusiast!
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: No.1 on July 18, 2015, 07:21:05 PM: :-eek :-eek :-eek :-obey Congratulation for this short guide and excellent result on your kit :-tri
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 18, 2015, 07:45:34 PM: Thank you my friend! ;)
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: Second Air Force on July 19, 2015, 01:57:02 AM: This has a great look to it!!
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 19, 2015, 05:18:51 PM: Thank you Scott!

Well, today it's rainy time here so I've worked on the Mustang...

First of all, for the decoration I want to realise, the Hamilton standard propeller is not correct. I have "kitnashed" a little bit and taken an Aero-Products propeller from a box of Tamiya F-51D... Some adaptation is needed but somewhat easy to do.

To note that the yellow border is painted on the face only.
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 19, 2015, 05:20:18 PM: A little bit of red on the airplane...
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 19, 2015, 05:23:11 PM: ...And after having airbrushed Pébéo Gloss varnish, I placed all the decals.

Yes, a Swiss Mustang!

...But a very particular one!

This one is in fact a Mustang owned by a German enthusiast that was specially painted to celebrate the 100 years of Swiss Air Force. What is funny is the German immatriculation and the little, discrete German flag well present on the fuselage...
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: No.1 on July 19, 2015, 07:17:16 PM: Fast!!!
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 19, 2015, 08:14:41 PM: Yes, it's unusual... ;)
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 20, 2015, 03:32:43 PM: OK, here we are...

Early this morning, I've washed the plane with water to remove traces of glue of the decals, then I've airbrushed Pébéo Gloss varnish again.
This afternoon, removing of the masks then oil wash (with Black from Abteilung 502) and all the little parts are glued in place.

Kit finished... Great look with AK! I'm happy but to be honnest it's the really first test and some experience is needed to obtain perfection - But perfection is possible ;)
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: No.1 on July 20, 2015, 04:53:21 PM: Excellent!!!
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 20, 2015, 10:42:09 PM: Thank you! :)
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: modellius on July 23, 2015, 03:43:30 PM: I like it a lot
Title: Re: P-51D Mustang (Airfix 1/72)
Post by: draken35 on July 23, 2015, 06:45:02 PM: Thank you! ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on July 25, 2015, 07:13:37 PM: Well, As I have lot of Mustang kits to build and as I wish to gain experience with AK Xtreme metal paints, time to begin another one!

This time it's a 1/72 P-51D Mustang from Tamiya. And I will build a Cuban Mustang.

Parts are removed from sprue and ready for painting. The canopy frame received a drop of cyano to correct a little gap; sanding is needed of course.

I have also ameliorated the seat a little bit with Evergreen and masking tape...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on July 25, 2015, 07:22:59 PM: Cuban? Idea is good, lets see it :)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on July 25, 2015, 07:49:25 PM: Quote from: No.1 on July 25, 2015, 07:22:59 PM
Cuban? Idea is good, lets see it :)

I have a decal sheet from Aztec Models: Mustangs from Cuba, Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa Rica... I will also build at least a Nicaraguayan Mustang ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on July 25, 2015, 08:20:06 PM: Go on mate ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 01, 2015, 04:28:15 PM: Today insert and preparation of the AIRES cockpit detail set:

1. The sides of the interior of the cockpit are sanded
2-3. Resin elements are glued with cyano. Those elements are fitting extremely well.
4-5. The seat: seatbelt is glued and also the lateral reinforcements. Parts are too fine and easily deformable; to place carefully...
6. The instrument panel: I don't have used the photoetched pedals of the detail set; because there were too big and woyld have been lower than the floor! Instead I've cut those of the plastic part of the kit.
7-8. The "main body" of the interior, let say the floor and the rear of the cockpit. The resin part is fine and a little bit more detailed than the kit one, but you need to cut the rear of the kit part and, later, to glue it in the kit...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on August 01, 2015, 04:45:40 PM: This resin will be great once when you finish it :)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 01, 2015, 04:55:44 PM: Hope so ;)
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Post by: Jicehem on August 13, 2015, 12:26:29 AM: Hello !

Beautiful rendering. Bravo !

Jicehem :-wave
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 13, 2015, 07:47:59 PM: Thank you! :)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 15, 2015, 03:37:31 PM: White primer done for cockpit elements
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on August 15, 2015, 03:41:24 PM: :-ok
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 15, 2015, 05:04:51 PM: ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 29, 2015, 11:31:54 AM: Canopy masked
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Post by: No.1 on August 29, 2015, 12:29:51 PM: Mask day :))
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on August 29, 2015, 01:40:36 PM: Quote from: No.1 on August 29, 2015, 12:29:51 PM
Mask day :))

Exactly :))
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 06, 2015, 04:46:15 PM: Time to resume the work...

Interior green airbrushed.
I've also airbrushed the spin in yellow and the exhausts in rust...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 06, 2015, 05:01:34 PM: Lets it dry and... ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 07, 2015, 08:44:23 PM: Sure...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Second Air Force on September 08, 2015, 02:26:42 AM: :-ok
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 08, 2015, 06:37:21 PM: ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 10, 2015, 07:12:12 PM: Very very little work today on the Mustang...

I wish to try a technique used by a good friend for wood effect. So, after white primer I've airbrushed a pale yellow.

Next step soon...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 10, 2015, 07:26:26 PM: Hhhhmmmm... lets see...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 10, 2015, 07:40:41 PM: Quote from: No.1 on September 10, 2015, 07:26:26 PM
Hhhhmmmm... lets see...

...Oil paint will be used ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 12, 2015, 10:22:28 PM: Next step: Oil paint.

Madere Alizarin brown, generously applied then slowly and smoothly removed with no less than three paintbrushes...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 12, 2015, 10:33:58 PM: I never ask- what is color of this area?
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 13, 2015, 12:45:13 PM: Quote from: No.1 on September 12, 2015, 10:33:58 PM
I never ask- what is color of this area?

The floor is wood made. The rest will be black painted...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 13, 2015, 12:47:30 PM: Letting the oil paint to dry, I have worked on the interior of the fuselage, instrument panel, stick and seat. I have also tried some chipping effect, using a color lighter than the base one. The seat sounds particularily good to me...

Of course work is not finished...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 13, 2015, 12:56:41 PM: I get the point and the rest of the work is great!!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 13, 2015, 02:12:00 PM: Thank you my friend!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Second Air Force on September 14, 2015, 03:45:06 AM: This is very, very nice!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 14, 2015, 05:33:13 PM: Thank you!

But, as it seems, I have to correct the back of the seat that must be yellow (a kind of dinghy in fact...)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 15, 2015, 06:40:03 PM: As said yesterday, the back of the seat must be painted in yellow... Correction done.
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 15, 2015, 06:42:31 PM: :-ok
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Second Air Force on September 15, 2015, 07:39:29 PM: Good one!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 15, 2015, 07:41:54 PM: Thank you! ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Jicehem on September 20, 2015, 09:25:07 AM: Another "Mustang" that will be, I'm sure, very beautiful.

Jicehem :-wave
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 20, 2015, 12:41:57 PM: Thank you my friend!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 22, 2015, 07:51:00 PM: Little progress
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Post by: draken35 on September 23, 2015, 04:10:09 PM: Details are exhausted
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: modellius on September 23, 2015, 06:29:54 PM: very nice
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 26, 2015, 12:48:39 PM: Thank you Modellius!

Some weathering effects on the spinner (with an HB2 pencil) and the propeller blades (with an aequous dark grey pencil); then Pébéo gloss varnish is airbrushed.
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Second Air Force on September 26, 2015, 03:24:26 PM: Coming along nicely!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 26, 2015, 06:16:04 PM: Thank you Scott!
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Post by: draken35 on September 26, 2015, 07:31:45 PM: Oil wash applied (Abteilung 502 Wash Brown)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 27, 2015, 12:48:33 PM: End of the trip for this Mustang...

I have airbrushed Pébéo matt varnish then used pastels. Result was excellent.
Problem comes with the fitting of the AIRES cockpit detail set in the cockpit. I had tested previously and that was fine, but it was without the instrument panel in place... This one blocks the half fuselage. I had to use extremely strong cyano to glue the parts, even with that the fuselage was deformed and big problem to place the wings but also the windshield: for this one I had to try to enlarge it a little bit and that resultat in the definitive loss of transparency! More than the the instrument panel, even if in place, was not well centered and the visor was not correctly positioned!

After lot of trials, lot of cyano that masked some details, my hand smashed the kit!

No regret. One thing to note is that it's the second time I use an AIRES cockpit detail set and it's the second time I have problems with it.
For my Me 163S, I had to sand the floor to permi a good fit, but until the moment sanding was so heavy that the floo became translucid! here, bad fitting again...
I'm afarid I have on my stash other aircrafts with AIRES sets... Don't know if I will try to use it again!!!

Anyway, as I have some P-51D in reserve on my stash, I will not have any problem to finally build a Cuban Mustang. I will just wait a few time before to do that...

Oh, and anyway I've recuperated the spinner with propeller and the exhausts...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Jicehem on September 27, 2015, 06:07:37 PM: Hello,

Sad end... :-think :(

Jicehem :-wave
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 27, 2015, 08:17:45 PM: Yes...

Bad day...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on September 28, 2015, 10:31:53 AM: Pencils are great for this!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Second Air Force on September 28, 2015, 03:26:14 PM: Well, more parts for the scratchbuilding bin!

We've enjoyed the thread and your efforts regardless of the final ending, mate. :-clap
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on September 28, 2015, 06:01:57 PM: Thank you.

i will restart a Cuban Mustang soon ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on October 24, 2015, 02:47:49 PM: I'm baaaack! :))

This time I will use the kit parts only, with eventually ameliorations made by myself. So for the seatbelts I've used masking tape with just the buckles of a photoetched seatbelt...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on October 24, 2015, 03:02:44 PM: I like when see salad of parts in your build projects ;)
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on October 24, 2015, 03:22:48 PM: I'm famous in the hobby for my salad and for the use of caps...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: Jicehem on October 25, 2015, 08:06:19 AM: Quote from: draken35 on October 24, 2015, 03:22:48 PM
I'm famous in the hobby for my salad and for the use of caps...

Hello :-salut

It's almost the same for me but without bottle caps, only chocolate box caps !

Jicehem :-wave
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on October 25, 2015, 12:20:35 PM: ;)
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Post by: draken35 on October 28, 2015, 08:40:07 PM: Yellow as base for the wooden floor...
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Post by: modellius on November 03, 2015, 07:53:42 PM: fantastic job here mate !
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on November 04, 2015, 07:38:36 PM: Thank you!
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Post by: draken35 on November 05, 2015, 07:28:04 PM: I wish to try something, for the wood floor. I will not work the same way that with the "destroyed" Mustang.

So, over the yellow paint I've paintbrushed Vallejo "Wood", in three fine layers, drying each layer with... Airbrush!

I let quiet until the week-end, then I will use Burnt Umber oil paint...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on November 07, 2015, 11:12:15 AM: I have generously applied oil paint (Winsor & Newton "Burnt Umber") then, after 1/4 hour, I've removed the paint with, first a Q-tip and then a paintbrush.

I like the result...
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on November 07, 2015, 11:19:55 AM: :-ok
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Post by: modellius on November 07, 2015, 12:08:10 PM: excellent !
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on November 07, 2015, 12:56:30 PM: Thank you! ;)
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Post by: draken35 on December 14, 2015, 05:46:26 PM: A very little progress: klir paintbrushed on the wood floor...
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Post by: modellius on December 20, 2015, 01:23:51 AM: looks nice
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Post by: draken35 on December 20, 2015, 11:01:28 AM: Thank you!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on January 10, 2016, 11:38:11 AM: Today as I was using some yellow for the Spitfires, I managed to airbrush the propeller and spin, plus the elements behind the pilot in the cockpit
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: No.1 on January 10, 2016, 11:52:43 AM: Good and easy way :)
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Post by: Second Air Force on January 10, 2016, 03:27:30 PM: :-ok
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Post by: draken35 on January 10, 2016, 04:16:21 PM: Thank you!
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Post by: draken35 on May 11, 2016, 06:27:40 PM: Final presentation for the Swiss Mustang
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Post by: No.1 on May 11, 2016, 06:38:13 PM: :-ok
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Post by: draken35 on May 11, 2016, 07:03:46 PM: Well, I think I have found a good presentation for all my kits...
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Post by: No.1 on May 11, 2016, 07:19:06 PM: It is :)
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Post by: modellius on May 11, 2016, 07:30:19 PM: looks very nice !
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Post by: Second Air Force on May 11, 2016, 07:33:26 PM: Very nice! I love all things with Swiss markings!!
Title: Re: P-51D MustangS
Post by: draken35 on May 12, 2016, 04:58:35 PM: thank you! :)