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well you finish one mustang.......repair another,and all hell breaks through...i'm now in the middle of a mustangathon



with the RB51 finished i thought i';d repair an easy model mustang....was missing gear and canopy.....i had spare airfix canopies so all good........stole the gear from an academy P51.....then thought ...i can use that..........then pulled out and airfix and tamiya P51's....so current plan.....top model Academy kit(it's a little fat but ok)...VH-FCB...would later be the Castrol mustang..and i saw it's last display as "big beautiful doll" at duxford in 2011.....need Black letters

next is the easy model P51...AM-G...the pointcook mustang.....just about done.

then the airfix one will be VH-IVI (just need white letters)

then the Tamiya one will be A68-766...later to be used in Korea...but in late WW11 blue and white roundels.

god knows where it end........i just discovered VH-BVM........the red x trial mustang

maybe these two.....

Looking good. Lots of Mustangs for Make a Mustang at Wings

well.....it got worse....now there are two P51b's on there as well......that makes 6 in this batch.......and 8 this year so far

the B's will be excalbur 111....the aircraft tha took the New York to London record in 1951...it also flew from Norway to Alaska over the north pole......it is preserved at the NASM in washinton(just need to buy decals)


the other B is in my mind a little more special....it was flown in a US based training squadron based at Bartow Army Airforce base in Florida,it crashed on a routine training flight into a local lake,killing the pilot Dean Gilmore a veteran of F6A missions around italy,he flew 91 mission for a total of 194 combat hours..not really special you might think,but it doesnt end there in 2001 the wreck was rediscovered and recovered,it eventually ended up in the ownership of Jack Roush and was rebuilt to fly.
it currently flies as Old Crow with a Malcolm hood...but her display board makes note of the original plane being Gilmore's plane.


the Great Niece of the pilot posted on one of the US base warbird forums about her "uncle" dean and the recovery of his plane so an interest was switched on,she got to meet Jack roush and has seen a touched the restored plane.i have been wanting to do this plane for quite a while, but the opportunity seemed to have never come up,till this weekend when i was given a bunch of P51's .

all six now in paint....the super shiny one will be Jeff trappets A86-118

SHIT =
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well three are pretty much decaled and two will be clear coated over easter and maybe final Assembly.


the rest are waiting for me to afford the civil registration letters for them......but for a little silliness i created a mini reno above my modeling desk


after this a bit of P40 love to bring me back to earth i think.

Nice collection Paul, I like the variety of the subjects there.

Suppose I should build some of the 3 or so P-51s in the collection... one day

well....two finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........4 more on hold till i can get black and white letters
1st


tamiya P51d A68-766 Labuan island late 1945 ..kit out of box decals by Ronin Graphics(out of the academy kit)..painted in alclad duraluminum ..pretty happy with how this cam out.




#2.....is sneakily in the civil area.........it does have a civil registration after all.....but here's a shot of it.


and all of this years stangs.......so far