Nice... gives me all the more reasons to find AM parts for a P-51 Mustang kit.Dear Ultracast Customer,
We are now having a limited time sale - 20% off all P-51 Mustang accessories in both 1/48 & 1/32 scales, all manufacturers.
Now’s the time to stock up on those P-51 accessories you always wanted!
Hasegawa 1/32 N.A. P-51D "Cripes A' Mighty" IV SN 44-14906.
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Re: Hasegawa 1/32 N.A. P-51D "Cripes A' Mighty" IV SN 44-149
John—great to hear from you! I hope you are well and thank you you so much for the information on the sale. One corner of my living room resembles a model shop presently with stacks of kits and boxes of supplies. There is a film project I am working on both as a designer and director that will feature some designs which harken back to the early Eighties. We are currently building the Hero Starfighter which will be used in a crash sequence to be filmed with drone cameras.
Here is the rough frame out of the design:

This month is really full with this work, regular post house editorial work and even a friend from high school arriving in a week to spend three days in Los Angeles! Switching hats every few days is pretty amazing, but I have not lost faith in this project.
One personal build—six months, I suppose—I’d like to see this fly in December.
Here is the rough frame out of the design:

This month is really full with this work, regular post house editorial work and even a friend from high school arriving in a week to spend three days in Los Angeles! Switching hats every few days is pretty amazing, but I have not lost faith in this project.
One personal build—six months, I suppose—I’d like to see this fly in December.
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Zoukei Mura Pilot
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Before the Ultracast sale, I was considering ZM’s limited edition pilot figure. I still am.... Radu sells ZM Mustang Pilots on his store, too, which is a strong endorsement of quality and the kind of close relationships the company forms with model builders.
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Does anyone have suggestions? I would sincerely appreciate any help. I was going to ask Immense Minatures for ideas.
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Before the Ultracast sale, I was considering ZM’s limited edition pilot figure. I still am.... Radu sells ZM Mustang Pilots on his store, too, which is a strong endorsement of quality and the kind of close relationships the company forms with model builders.
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Does anyone have suggestions? I would sincerely appreciate any help. I was going to ask Immense Minatures for ideas.
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Tom Cruise's 1944 P-51K Mustang 44-12840 departing after getting an oil change at Van Nuys Airport yesterday:


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Wow, amazing pics here Bruce. Congrats on landing that film gig. I like the looks of that starfighter already. I guess this means you'll be too busy to attend Orangecon on the 13th of October. That's okay; with the slow recovery I'm experiencing here; I don't even know if I'm going to make it.
Keep up posted on this and other projects Bruce; you are living such an amazing and exciting life!
Keep up posted on this and other projects Bruce; you are living such an amazing and exciting life!
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Duke! Thanks for walking into the laboratory tonight... I left the lights on, I hope! Seriously, thanks so much for your kind words. My thoughts and prayers are always with you and the little blue plane with folding wings, too. I just wanted to add, sincerely, 'We are all in this together; all of us.' We truly are. This would be the part where Carlos would post a tea party picture from Alice in Wonderland and he is right of course. There is a dash of madness to making something (or I will write this from my perspective, it's my belief) and that's a very good thing to bring to the table. I just would like some chairs to go with the table, literally and figuratively (mainly literally in this case since I don't have a lot of chairs), but again most sincerely, I think the world of your ability and your willpower to finish what you start and I know that you're going through tough times, the toughest of times, but you have some great friends here and I would like to think I am amongst them. You have a lot of support. From what I am seeing, your outlook and your output remain so strong you put me to shame, and I have a lot to learn from your ability to make your way through a project from beginning to end—really amazing journeys your projects take—and come out with finished modeling goodness. Your finish what you start—and that is an honorable lesson to learn since (again I will write from my experience) there are so many distractions!

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Wow Bruce, I just don't know what to say....
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Re: Hasegawa 1/32 N.A. P-51D "Cripes A' Mighty" IV SN 44-149
speedgraflex wrote:This would be the part where Carlos would post a tea party picture from Alice in Wonderland and he is right of course. There is a dash of madness to making something (or I will write this from my perspective, it's my belief) and that's a very good thing to bring to the table.

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I don’t know the film, but the madness is razor sharp, Carlos! What’s the movie? I’m going to gear down with this clip from “The Searchers,” just to let the action fall into darkness and reflection of what makes the journey we take so significant:
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