For the Red Baron Mustang club

[Ericg]

Hi guys,

Thanks to Adam the Acrodude I picked up this kit on the weekend (send me the bloody bill please!!)

Thought it might be useful for us that belong to `the club' to post pics and info here for all of us to use?

Found this link on Britmodeller:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/inde ... g-mustang/

Will be kicking off my build as soon as I have my F-80 finished (or possibly sooner)....

Eric.

[Adam the Akrodude]

Good link Eric! I love his fasteners, but they appear a tad too big. What do you think? Some good hints for the cockpit - like correct positioning of the canopy rails. Bill on the way Sir!

Cheers

Adam

[Knotty]

Thanks Eric , that's a good link . I was sort of hoping that you would build yours and that we could just follow it .
I ordered some wood grain decals from BNA today for the floor ( thanks Adam )

I see on Ebay there is a book on Griffon powered Mustangs around $24 free postage , might have to get one I think .

[oz rb fan]

damn that looks like a very nice conversion.....or he is much braver than i am!!!!!!
i'll have to get wood decals as well it seems

[Flyboy]

This is one bird I would like to have in my collection but on a larger scale than 1/32. As you all know the Red Baron was the most modified of the early Mustang racers and the first to sport a griffon v-12. The Fisher RB-51 is based off the model built by Nick Turner who used drawings by Taichiro Yamashita. Now the golden rule with building from scratch is never trust drawings 100% as I have studied all the photo's of the racer and seen some differances between the two. Not too bad but still noticable if you look in the right places. I have joined a few facebook pages on air racing wich is just insane to this air racing nut and made a few connections with those in the know. More to come.

[Adam the Akrodude]

Hey Flyboy!

Welcome to A/CAM - the premier civilian and civilised aircraft modelling forum in Australia! Of course we discuss anything and everything to do with any type of aeroplane here, be it civil or military. Hats off to you with a super low bow in respect if you take on a 1/24 Red Baron conversion one day. I'm fundamentally (with a large emphasis on being "mental") a lazy modeller, so if there is a off the shelf product or standard conversion, I'll opt for that to save time. The Fisher RB-51 is such a beautiful kit. I can't comment of it's accuracy, but Paul Fisher is a genius I think. It was a very low volume re-release that Paul did specially for a few of us (I did a lot of begging!) and no doubt a couple of others in USA. The limiting factor on this re-release was the limited number of cast bronze undercarriage bits Paul still had. So, I think I'm lucky owning one of these amazing kits and I hope I do it justice one day.

Now, in the Photos area, I've started a reference section for the RB-51 for those of us interested in this amazing aeroplane. If you have any cool pic's please post them there to help all of we building the RB-51 in the future. There are five of us here with this kit. I also started a reference section to that amazing Super Corsair as well. I've a 1/48 kit of this to build.

So please post away - comments, photos, models - anything to do with scale aircraft modelling be it civil or military. We're a bunch of blokes who love aeroplanes here! What happened with that SR-71/YF-12 you were building some time ago?

Cheers

Adam

[Flyboy]

Adam it is great to finaly be part of this site, you might have to bow really low as I want to scratch build the RB in 1/15 scale just trying to figure out which method to use. As I mentioned before apart from AAFO and Warbird Aeropress a lot of new sites have come up on facebook that just rock. The blackbird model is almost done and will be on display in the future at the moment alot of my time is with my girlfriend .