1/48 AMT P-51D

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Thanks Tom!

Today I finished polishing up the canopy, which had been seriously scuffed up in the box over the years. I then gave it a dip in Future to keep the shine going. It’s currently drying in a container to keep any dust off. I spent the rest of the day doing seam clean up and filling on the fuselage. Most of it was good except for in the oil cooler/radiator area where I had to do some filler work, amd a couple of sink areas on the upper & lower engine cowling…

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of course afterwards I had to do a test fit of the fuselage to the wings. It’s a pretty snug fit but I can see where some filler will be needed at the joining points

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Next up I need to rescribe the detail lost in seam clean up, which really isn’t that much… stay tuned until the weekend for the next update.
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Just gets better and better - looking really good Carlos!

Good idea painting the wings in advance. It's funny how many people don't realise the the wings of a WWII 'Stang weren't BMF.
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Looks good, Carlos.
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Stuart and Lyle, thank you!
Stuart wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:27 pm
Good idea painting the wings in advance. It's funny how many people don't realise the the wings of a WWII 'Stang weren't BMF.
Stuart I wish that I had known about the puttied and filled panel lines on my last Mustang build. I spent hours rescribing raised panel lines on that build. It would have been much quicker to have just sanded them smooth… :headslap:
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Your wings look great Carlos. I am surprised mr surfacer 500 filled those panel lines so well. Seems like it always shrinks too much when I use it for such things...
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The first application shrunk up a bit. I could see that after it dried. So I hit those areas with a second dose. Then I sanded it all out. There are still a few “shadows” of the panel lines here and there. But you really have to look hard for those.
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Nice. Thanks for the info!
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I suspect the real aircraft had shadows too Stik.
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Chris, you’re quite welcome!

Stuart, I’ll bet that at some point, the real ones would show such wear after field maintenance… especially at more primitive forward airfields.
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Oh totally - I bet there was lumps of missing putty all over the place.
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