Hasegawa 1/32 N.A. P-51D "Cripes A' Mighty" IV SN 44-14906.

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[KSaarni]

Kari,

That camo would be a great choice for your own Lightning!

Indeed ! :-)

- Kari

[KennyX]

That 6313 looks almost dead on to my eye. I’d use it for a base coat, then lighten it with white or even white and a bit of neutral gray and spray over that base coat, then do the straight 6313 again. All coats heavily thinned.

[Stuart]

Impressive work going on as always Bruce - I'm sure it'll look fantastic when done. I've always liked the markings for the Blue nosed bastards of Bodney.

I found the conversation on perfection interesting, and it makes me laugh when you guys pull your builds apart - you've no idea how good you guys are! Compared to yours my paltry efforts look like they've been knocked together by my 7 year old - but hey, I'm fine with that - I thought about becoming a Perfectionist but I became a Vegetarian instead. The only perfect thing in my life's my Wife.

Cheers Dudes!

[speedgraflex]

That 6313 looks almost dead on to my eye. I’d use it for a base coat, then lighten it with white or even white and a bit of neutral gray and spray over that base coat, then do the straight 6313 again. All coats heavily thinned.

Thanks, bud. That’s very close to what I was thinking, too. I’m grateful to have your thoughts on doing this.

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[speedgraflex]

Impressive work going on as always Bruce - I'm sure it'll look fantastic when done. I've always liked the markings for the Blue nosed bastards of Bodney.

I found the conversation on perfection interesting, and it makes me laugh when you guys pull your builds apart - you've no idea how good you guys are! Compared to yours my paltry efforts look like they've been knocked together by my 7 year old - but hey, I'm fine with that - I thought about becoming a Perfectionist but I became a Vegetarian instead. The only perfect thing in my life's my Wife.

Cheers Dudes!

Cheers back to you, Stuart!!! I was wondering how you were doing, and I am grateful you read through all of this thread. I still haven’t finished a plane though, so finishing this project remains a critical challenge for me. Next weekend is a “Famous Planes” Show at the Aircraft Museum in Chino, California. I have never been to an air show before and was thinking I should go. Chino is about 2 hours from me.

I do remember in 2015... seeing, hearing and feeling a very shiny Mustang make several low level passes through Westwood Village. What a thrill that was!

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Red Roo Resin (Red Roo! Red Roo! Try saying that super fast.) Hamilton Standard Cuffed Blades

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[Stuart]

Prussian Blue Hue 6:

personally, I'd wonder if it's too light The trouble is it can be insanely difficult to judge a colour from a photograph...

Actually scratch that - I've just looked at you other post with swatches and the close up on the previous page and I'd say yeah - that looks about right.