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Rando
I have this very kit and am planning to build it soon! How did you get such fine painting on the instrument panel? It looks amazing!

KyMustang
Thanks Rando. I dry-brushed dark grey and white on the instrument faces and then picked out some buttons and placards with a very fine brush. Dry-brushing highlighted some areas that I didn't want highlighted so I came back with some flat black and repainted the "rim" around the flight instruments.

Each of the dials will get a drop of clear later. Check out my album on the Revell P-51D for another panel if you're interested.

Rando
Great to hear about how you did this, and I definitely will!

Rando
Very nice! I think you have the right idea of not attaching the seat yet since it's so flimsy…maybe I'll carefully remove mine. How did fitting that radio part work out for you? Did it go in like we discussed?

KyMustang
Thanks. Yeah it'll go in later along with the rollover bar. Also gives me time to scratch seatbelts.

The rear radio rack went perfectly above and behind the main rack. It fits under the horizontal "stringer" aft of the main radio deck.

Desert Marlin
Your struggle seems to be coming along in excellent fashion!!!! Keep it up! 👍

KyMustang
Thanks for the encouragement. I have four more of these Allison birds in the stash and this is the variant I like the least….so on the upside, I'm learning a lot for the others! 😂

Desert Marlin
True model building!!!

Rando
Nice smooth finish you got with the primer there. Gonna be a nice paint job!

Dietmar Bogatzki
A nice start special the woodpainting

Timmie
Thank you Dietmar

bughunter
You can add a new topic on your own, by adding a kit for it. Only empty topics are auto-deleted.

Alex K
Sure, dear Frank, but I can't add a topic if there is NO kit available - but there are, instead, a number of interesting gallery articles for scratch-built models of said subject... like in this case:

scalemodels.ru/artic..ovskijj-bich-22.html

bughunter
Then I would add a gallery article and edit it afterwards. There is also a topic field.

Alex K
Unless I'm terribly mistaken (and apologies if I do), you can NOT add a NEW topic by using the topic field on the edit form of gallery articles... (as is the case with new kits). The same also used to apply for new entry books, again if I'm not mistaken...
See, for instance, always in the case above: scalemates.com/articles/article.php?id=437176&m=edit
The topic field in the "edit gallery article" form in fact only allows you to select from a pre-existing list of topics - if you simply write the name of the new topic, the topic still "doesn't exist" - unlike what happens when you enter a kit for a new topic...

bughunter
I must admit that I have not tried this. Thanks for the explanation! May be the behavior of the topic fields should be identical.
Otherwise, if the topic is added and the article is not assigned "quickly" (within the timer) it would be auto-deleted too?

Alex K
Exactly... It has already happened, for instance with this gallery, which had been added in the past: maquette72.free.fr/a.._db70/index_gm89.php
But since no "Dyle et Bacalan DB-70" topic was created soon enough... ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyle_et_Bacalan_DB-70 ) the added gallery simply vanished, after a certain time...
That's why when a gallery article. for such an esoteric topic with no kit available, is added, one has to ask for those mates with the power to add topics... to do so.
Or else (as I think I have asked Tim before), one should be able to add new topics when adding the relevant gallery articles and books...