discussion 1/72 Airfix F51 Mustang

[Guest]

Airfix 1/72 F51 Mustang

Brush painted with Tamiya, Revell and Humbrol acrylics

I wanted a pretty grimy, dusty sort of look.

 

[Guest]

Mission accomplished I think nice job

 

[Guest]

Lovely build, I like the NAPALM drop tanks.

Theuns

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys.. I enjoyed building it, nice iit, although the landing gear is a weak point.

 

[eddiesolo]

Looks superb, well mucky and used-top job. What do you mean by the landing gear is a weak point? Are they actually weak for the model itself, or poorly moulded, or badly put together and painted (although they look okay to me)?

Si

 

[Guest]

Compared to how good the rest of the kit is, the landing gear is very flexy, and one of the legs was warped and so I got them to sit as best I could.

I have the P51 boxing of this kit to make at some point, so will see if the landing gear is any better.

 

[Guest]

Excellent results, love the weathered effect.

Francesco

 

[Guest]

Beautiful job.

scott

 

[monica]

great build, like that look the well used, and weathered

 

[papa 695]

You wanted a grimy dusty look. Well I think you achieved that very well great job

 

[Alan 45]

Very good work with the hairy stick mate , if you wanted a dusty look I say spot on you can't do any better with that from the hairy stick

Top job

 

[Guest]

Nice build, 5*. Especially brush painted, well done.

 

[Guest]

Thanks once again everyone, i am pretty pleased with it. Not normally a fan of shark mouth schemes.

 

[flyjoe180]

Super work, it looks well used

 

[Guest]

Well done, nice paintwork!

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much. I sort of went with the idea that they were well used already, and that Korea must have been a pretty harsh environment as well.

I tend to build my models to look how I like, paying slightly more than lip service to accuracy, but without getting bogged down by it.

 

[colin m]

Looks nice. I like them dirty.

 

[Guest]

That is a great looking Stang and even more impressive with what you did in that scale! Very nicely done Sir!

 

[Guest]

Excellent result!

Really nice model, I like it very much

Cheers

Polux