P-51D progress
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1 8 December 2017, 20:41
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The cockpit is finished and the fuselage is closed up. Next will be ordering some swedish markings and start working on the NMF. 🙂
8 December 2017, 20:51
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Great start Björn. Good to see a Swedish P-51. Looking forward to your progress
9 December 2017, 00:09
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I decided to do the riveting on this plane. It is hard work, but I think it will look better when it is finished.
@Martin You are welcome!
9 December 2017, 21:03
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@Spanjaard It's an RB Productions Rivet-R. You attach it to a hobby knife handle and use it to roll along the rivet line. It comes with four different wheels with 0.75-1.5mm distances for the rivets. I like it so far 🙂.
But will I need to get a punching tool also for single rivets.
9 December 2017, 21:52
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thanks a lot! you can make a simple punching tool, if you have some steel needles. you just need to cut them and use them at the end of hobby knife of similar tool.
9 December 2017, 22:38
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but try first with some spare plastic. specially when the tubes are too long, they can bend leading to nasty damages.
9 December 2017, 23:25
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Thanks Clifford!
Now all the riveting is done. As the fit of this kit is so good, I have decided to paint everything separately, and then put the fuselage and the wings together. I also think it will help with the painting and keeping the overspray to a minimum.
10 December 2017, 15:10
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Most of the painting is finished. I need to mask and paint some lettering, but now I'm mainly waiting for the swedish decals to arrive.
12 December 2017, 21:33
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Wow Björn the nmf looks amazing. Which paint did you use? Riveting looks very good too 👍
13 December 2017, 10:21
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Thanks Erik, Valiente, Hato and Stefan! 🙂
@Erik, I used Alclad II Polished Aluminium.
Trevlig Lucia to you too Hato!
13 December 2017, 12:15
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Wow! No after market kits! Looks fantastic! Which blue did you use? Keep up the god work!
13 December 2017, 13:08
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Thanks Timothy!
I did use the Eduard photo etch kit for the cockpit. The blue is Tamiya X-14 with a little bit of X-4 added. I didn't measure it exactly, perhaps 5%..
13 December 2017, 13:48
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Thank you Stephan, Arne and Clifford! 🙂
It's actually finished now, I just haven't uploaded the rest of the pictures yet.
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14 December 2017, 18:58
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Blå Adam is finally finished 🙂. I decided not to do any weathering on this as I kind of like it as it is. Maybe I will add some exhaust stains, but that would be enough. I think these were only used in peace time so they would have been well maintained during their service in the air force.
14 December 2017, 20:05
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Nice Silver Bird Björn, i think the P 51 in Linköping is an P 51 from sperparts or it has an Crash in its live. They had an pro from an Model K and manny bumps on the bottom.
15 December 2017, 17:54
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Thanks Hato!
Yes, that is certainly possible. It had a few dents on it. I'll have to look that up the next time I visit, probably between Christmas and New Year. 🙂
I mostly used pictures of "Gul Kalle" as reference for the build.
15 December 2017, 19:54
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Progress pictures of my build of the swedish P-51D.