P-51D Mustang U.S. Army Air Force Fighter Platz 1/144

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P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 BOX PACKAGEPreviously purchased, it isn’t easy to buy it now. I try to build this 1/144 scale P-51D.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 MAKINGIt might be irregular; four canopies were included. It’s very delicate and seems like a nice kit.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 MAKINGI can choose the pattern from these three types in a beautiful Cartograf decal sheet.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 MAKINGI painted the cockpit and built them roughly.
(30-March-2016)

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 MAKINGPropeller needs pretty fine work. The legs have a good mold, even 1/144, including the wheels. These blades are to be attached to the spinner one by one.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 MAKINGA canopy was masked carefully, aiming at clean completion.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGIt is red and yellow colorful spraying. The painting of such a bright body is fun.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGThis time I tried to use the Gaia color silver. It’s shining beautifully.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGI made a mistake in the order of the paint masking. It is the painting preparation for the olive-drab nose.
(08-April-2016)

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGI used my airbrush in small areas to smooth the paint surface.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGI attached the decals on the backside; it’s almost completed.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 PAINTINGThe left aircraft is done with the inking. After all, it’s good with accents, even as it is the minimum scale of 1/144.
(11-April-2016)

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKWhile the other kit is putty drying, I have begun to assemble it. I have recently had many kits in the assembly stage; these 1/144 scale kits seem easy, but they have many processes to complete.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKIt’s easy to form. However, the narrow panel line molds will be gone; even I did a small filing.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKAccording to the manual, the body of the 47th fighter squadron has two antennas in the cockpit rear, and additional work to attach an antenna to the nose undersurface is demanded. I thought to skip it because it is too careful work, but the chopped small plastic parts easily attached to it. And I have some extent of self-satisfaction.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe decals of the propeller are tiny, and I think it gains a precise feeling.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORK

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKMasking works often require a thin tape pasting on a small part.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThis marking is P-51D-20NA 44-63882 “Lil Butch” 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group Iwo Jima, 1945.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKA black belt with a yellow edge of the spinner, the vertical tail, the main wing, and the horizontal tail is the squadron color of 47th FS.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKI did the inking on the fuselage underside. My preference for this size is not so much weathering, mainly silver aircraft.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKA canopy should have been finished a little more neatly. I do not worry too much about the canopy when decorating it on the shelves.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe second Mustang is a silver and red body.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe marking is P51D-15-NA 44-15569 “Bunnie” Capt. Roscoe C. Brown (Tuskegee Airmen) 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, Italy 1944.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe Tuskegee Airmen were a pilot unit of only blacks trained in a Tuskegee base in Alabama. It was called Red Tails from the feature of the marking of a fuselage.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThere was still racial discrimination in a military unit. And often share a black with a white in those days.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKAccording to a manual, Tuskegee Airmen were the military unit famous as the American first black squadron. Captain Brown is the legendary black pilot who shot down Me262 for the first time in the 15th Air Force.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKIt’s fantastic to shoot down the Me262 jet in propeller aircraft.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKBecause the antenna line penetrated a canopy and let it go through to the back of the seat, I carefully made a hole in it. A canopy was thin and penetrated by considerably sensitive work.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKI do not touch it willingly anymore after having attached an extra-fine antenna.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe surface finishing was rough.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKThe inking panel lines are seen well and not seen depending on the angle.

P-51D MUSTANG PLATZ 1/144 FINISHED WORKIt is probably fun to line up the various markings of 1/144 size. Mustang is excellent, so I’d like to make a 1/48 scale sometime.
(17-April-2016)

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  1. Sarn says:

    Really excellent work. Thank you for representing the Tuskegee airmen.