Tintin: Voir et Savoir 47 - North American P-51 "Mustang"

Greg Baker
As 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.

Greg Baker
Now 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.

Robert Podkoński
Good to see you back at the bench, Greg! 😉

Spanjaard
i certainly will follow this one 🙂

Jay Dubya
Keen to see your solution to the XF-16 issues, Greg, and the end results!

Greg Baker
Well, the solution, seemed to be to just to mask the coloured bits and add a fresh coat… decals next. 🙂

Greg Baker
Got 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.