Tintin: Voir et Savoir 47 - North American P-51 "Mustang"
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30 31 January, 16:43
Greg Baker AuthorAs I said on Focke-Wulf project, I'm starting to clear out the shelf of doom and this project was a parallel to the The Battlefield - The Black Knight of Berlin (part 1) | Album by strobez (1:144) - mainly because the Platz boxes came with two kits in one. However, even though I've long since finished the Black Knight project, the "alternates" have sat warming the shelf ever since. About time I completed them. Truth be told, some of the early pictures in this project are also the same ones published as part of the Black Knight ones... but they're separate projects and represent a twin build process, so I'm hopefully forgiven.
3 31 January, 16:48
Greg Baker AuthorNow with an updated pic. Does anyone else have a problem with Tamiya XF-16 Aluminium getting a bit "splotchy" using Tamiya masking tape? No matter how long I let it dry (and in this case is was almost a whole year!), I always seem to end up removing a bit of the paint and leaving "tape marks" behind. I'll have to remask the coloured bits and give it another coat of XF-16 I think, but what a pain.
1 February, 19:15
Jay DubyaKeen to see your solution to the XF-16 issues, Greg, and the end results!
4 February, 02:08
Greg Baker AuthorWell, the solution, seemed to be to just to mask the coloured bits and add a fresh coat… decals next. 🙂
4 February, 07:42
Greg Baker AuthorGot the decals on. The Platz ones went on like a dream, but for the larger yellow numbering on the engine cowl, I cut up some decals from the Hasegawa F11F kit I had leftover after one of my Area 88 builds (AREA 88: F11F-1 (Gary Macburn) | Project by strobez (1:72)). The ancient decals disintegrated almost instantly on my first attempt. I got it done eventually. Now just the propellor and a few minor adjustments left to work on.
5 February, 15:18
Greg Baker AuthorAnd... done~
Well, done a while ago... now with pictures to prove it!
23 October, 17:42
Greg Baker AuthorUnsure, but I was not willing to try and drill a small hole through it to find out either. I cheated and just glued the nylon thread to the canopy using a VERY tiny bit of CA glue. 🙂
1 23 October, 21:57
SpanjaardPlatz canopies are very thin, drilling should be fairly easy. I know because I cut one of them in two pieces in order to have an open cockpit in one of mine
for some reason I seem to have forgotten adding the rigging on both of mine....
1 23 October, 23:54
Spanjaardif you drill from the inside, it should be much easier than from outside
1 28 October, 22:57
