adampolo13
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Hey all,
Since it has been forever and a milenium since I actually posted any in-progress build stuff I figured I'd share with you one of my current projects. Here we have the beautiful Tamiya 1/48 P-51D Mustang kit, which I'm going to build strait OOB.
The very first thing I did was dry fit the entire bird to see if there were any areas to be concerned with. When no presented themselves off I went.
First thing I did was drill out the exhaust pipes. Some of you more knowledgeable mustang fans may notice these are the wrong pipes. I did go back and use clean up and paint the correct set. Thanks Tamiya for including two! Or, next time I should read more carefully?
Next up was painting the cockpit areas. I really wasn't concerned with matching the colors perfectly so I just grabbed some green and yellow and made some various colors and tones.
A funny thing about me, I love to dry fit. After the cockpit areas were painted I had to test fit again...
Pipes looking good enough to me.
After that was done I move to the inside of the cockpit. First by painting the instrument panel and then adding the decals. I tried something new on this one, I painted each dial silver and then put the decal over it. I'm not 100% positive but I think it gave more life to the white?
After that was done and everything was fairly dry, I closed it all up and put it away to dry. Oh ya, somewhere along the way I did clean up the pilot figure and get him primed. I'm definitely liking the looks of this old classic.
As always, thanks for checking in.
Since it has been forever and a milenium since I actually posted any in-progress build stuff I figured I'd share with you one of my current projects. Here we have the beautiful Tamiya 1/48 P-51D Mustang kit, which I'm going to build strait OOB.
The very first thing I did was dry fit the entire bird to see if there were any areas to be concerned with. When no presented themselves off I went.
First thing I did was drill out the exhaust pipes. Some of you more knowledgeable mustang fans may notice these are the wrong pipes. I did go back and use clean up and paint the correct set. Thanks Tamiya for including two! Or, next time I should read more carefully?
Next up was painting the cockpit areas. I really wasn't concerned with matching the colors perfectly so I just grabbed some green and yellow and made some various colors and tones.
A funny thing about me, I love to dry fit. After the cockpit areas were painted I had to test fit again...
Pipes looking good enough to me.
After that was done I move to the inside of the cockpit. First by painting the instrument panel and then adding the decals. I tried something new on this one, I painted each dial silver and then put the decal over it. I'm not 100% positive but I think it gave more life to the white?
After that was done and everything was fairly dry, I closed it all up and put it away to dry. Oh ya, somewhere along the way I did clean up the pilot figure and get him primed. I'm definitely liking the looks of this old classic.
As always, thanks for checking in.
