P-51D progress

Björn Svedberg
The cockpit is finished and the fuselage is closed up. Next will be ordering some swedish markings and start working on the NMF. 🙂

Erik Leijdens
Great start Björn. Good to see a Swedish P-51. Looking forward to your progress

Spanjaard
cockpit looking excellent. i am in.

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Erik and Spanjaard!
Swedish decals ordered 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Seat please

Björn Svedberg
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!

Spanjaard
what are you using to do the riveting? it looks quite good.

Björn Svedberg
@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.

Spanjaard
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.

Björn Svedberg
Thanks! 👍 I will have to try that.

Spanjaard
but try first with some spare plastic. specially when the tubes are too long, they can bend leading to nasty damages.

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice.

Björn Svedberg
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.

Björn Svedberg
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.

Spanjaard
nice NMF

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Spanjaard! 🙂

Erik Leijdens
Wow Björn the nmf looks amazing. Which paint did you use? Riveting looks very good too 👍

valiente84
Looks good so far!

Spitfire21
Nice Mustang Björn, trevlig luziadag!

Stefan Schacht
looks nice so far. I take a seat.

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Erik, Valiente, Hato and Stefan! 🙂
@Erik, I used Alclad II Polished Aluminium.
Trevlig Lucia to you too Hato!

Tim Heimer
Wow! No after market kits! Looks fantastic! Which blue did you use? Keep up the god work!

Björn Svedberg
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%..

Stephan Ryll
Very nice P-51 so far 👍

arne vd burg
She looks fantastic Bjorn👍

Clifford Keesler
Awesome sir.

Björn Svedberg
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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Björn Svedberg
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.

Spanjaard
congratulations, really good

Martin Oostrom
Very beautyful shiny bird, well done!

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Spenjaard and Martin! 🙂

Spitfire21
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.

Björn Svedberg
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.

Erik Leijdens
Looking good Björn! Very nice result 🙂

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Erik! 🙂