1/72 Academy P-51C Red Tails... and the jeep too :P

[MikeyKb]

Hey,

So it's a friends birthday coming up and I'm going to surprise him with this.








Very nicely detailed for such a little size!


Even the wood panelling






I put the cockpit together ... his birthday's pretty soon and the mail took a while to get through, so I'm gonna have to power through this one...



All pieces waiting to be put together


That's all for now, waiting for things to dry

[Drazimo]

Looking good, I really like the P-51 Mustangs. I can only assume this aircraft is what the movie was based off, not that I've seen it mind.

When I'm more adept, I plan to do a P-51D Mustang, but the 'Shark of Zambales' - The Philippine scheme as that's where the other half is from. So I look forward to see this progress.

-D

[HWGuderian23]

Seems to be a very cool kit Mikey!
Looking forward to see your progress on it mate

[MikeyKb]

So I got down to painting. I'm sorry for not posting more update pics. but for those of you interested, here's the paint work - since these photo's were taken, I dry brushed some Tamiya Metallic Silver on the panel and the dials popped nicely (will post pics of that later today) I sprayed a gloss coat and am going to be doing a brown wash today.





It's come a long way, hopefully the pics later today will show that better

[Modelcrazy]

Looking nice.

[EasyEight96]

Beautiful job on the office

[MikeyKb]

Beautiful job on the office

Thanks!
Here are some [better] more for you guys.
I put down a wash of Sienna Brown Oil paint mixed with about 70% white spirit... twice, these are photos after the first go at it. I'll post more later of the finished cockpit before sealing it with some Flat.






Cheers for now!

[MikeyKb]

These photos are post Burnt Sienna wash, and pre coat of Flat.
I mixed about 70% white spirit to some oil paint, gave it a coat and wiped it down about 30 mins. later. Then I repeated the process. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. It still might have been too thick though.


Inside the cockpit



Cockpit



Last night I gave it a coat of Model Masters Flat.

I'll hopefully be able to get both sides together tonight!!

[MikeyKb]

Time for a quick update before the weekend - hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of work done this weekend - It'll be my last chance to model for the next two weeks

I got both halves together, going to be lots of sanding and maybe some putty

[MikeyKb]

Got the halves together and puttied, sanded, and puttied again... but first! ... THE JEEP!

Such a cute teeny weeny car!


Got some Tamiya Rubber Black down on the wheels


Puttied the halves



Sanding #1



Had to re-putty some parts, so I was able to do some re-scribing while I waited for the parts to dry


That's all for now, more soon!

[Merlin]

Looking real good so far.

[MikeyKb]

LONG overdue update for anyone still maybe following along

After priming and sanding, and priming and sanding, and priming and sanding, I was finally able to get the Tamiya Chrome Silver down.
The pre-shading worked out really well too




I let it dry for over 48 hours and then masked her all up for the Tamiya Red (Tails) and the Olive Drab on the ... 'hood' (??)
I finished up the jeep a little while back and got it decaled, still gotta put down another gloss coat and do some weathering.
Also finished my little pilot for the dio. I'm gonna add a little more dirt to the dio as well as some bushes... and obviously some greenery to that tree

The figure's been gloss coated and will get a wash... of what colour yet, I don't know.






That's all for now!

[Paul]

Nice work Mikey, looking good mate, the "hood" is an anti glare strip

[MikeyKb]

Got a long overdue update for y'all.

Enjoy!









Gotta put the nose on, give er' another Gloss coat, and then throw some decals on.
That's all for now - sorry for the short update.

[moi196872]

Lovely P-51C, I'll be doing one those Mustangs Red tail with the Tamiya 1/32 P-51D kit.

Will keep watching your build.

[MikeyKb]

Finally had time to finish up the decals on this super side project.
Looks lovely, doesn't it? I love the P-51, what an epic aircraft.








Next comes another gloss coat. Then a wash and some weathering.

Stay tuned!

[Trainboy153]

i may be wrong but it looks like that front bit of the jeep is upside down.

[AchtungPanzer]

Wow Looks good . Interior is awesome for me

[martin57]

nice work

[MikeyKb]

i may be wrong but it looks like that front bit of the jeep is upside down.

Went back and checked.... you're 100% right, I don't know how I missed that! hahahaha

I broke it up and will put it back together properly. thanks for that. wow, I feel like an idiot

[Trainboy153]

Dont feel bad, it happens to the best of us, right? Still, Great build!