WIP: F-51D Mustang (Korean Wars) #1
Posted by tejodeace on 22 May 2009
Work in progress for Academy’s 1/72 F-51D Mustang (Korean). I bought this little kit for about $5 at local department store (sadly they are gone now, the kits section i mean). Nice little kit that has a good fit, except for the wing root, there are some gaps that must be filled. Cockpit section is good enough, it has raised details, a simple dry brush will make it good (but seems useless, the canopy is too thick, that it will distort light, making it blurry). And a jeep is included, a nifty little jeep 
cool, reviewed later 
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Construction begin with painting the cockpit interior green, blacking the instrument panels, dry brush it with silver, then added red/green patch for dials (spurious spot ). The next step is to glue the fuselage half and wing half, the masking the canopy. Propeller is attached before joining the fuselage half. Then fill the gaps in wing roots with putty, let it dry, the sand it down. Checking done by painting silver on the sanded part, and looking for imperfect surface. I temporary attached the flaps for painting (gonna pose it down later).
Painting process begin with matte black spray (at the moment i still don’t have airbrush set 
… ), next is the silver paint (before that, propeller and anti glare part is masked). After paint are cured, i wash the the panel lines with black gundam marker and paint the wheel wells interior green. Then the exhausts and decals are placed. Next the mustang coated with clear paint (glossy one). With the clear coats is cured, the rest of masking is removed. Last part is to attach the landing gears (already painted, of course). Now the mustang is 95% done … it stopped there, hehehe … it’s not done yet (I’m too lazy, maybe next time, after I finished the 1/100 Astraea ).
Sorry for the english, I’m not native english after all.
Happy modeling for all ….
Here’s the WIP gallery:
