discussion P-51D "Petie" 1:33 Halinski

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The P51-D "Petie" from Halinski is my next plane.

A shot of the front side.



The paper is kind of glossy,so I'm having some troubles focusing on the tiny outlines......

I wanted a soft start so I started with the battery arrangement.



Then I started on the cockpit floor.



This kit seems very nice with the "aluminium" print.

Since this is a big step for me.....to start a Halinski kit without very much experience, I will proceed kind of slow I guess.....

 

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The start of the P51......

I start with making the internal framing for the cockpit section.

The drawings in the Halinski kits is really good I think.



Here is the first dryfit of the parts I have cut out now.I have some other parts that I'm doing some hardening ties on....I'm soaking the backside of some parts with thinned varnish just to see if that's any good.



I hope to have this frame section done today If I'm lucky...

 

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The frames of the cockpit section is done.



I'm missing two parts called InP and InL who will go in there somewhere....when I have figured out where to put them

 

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Now it's time to start on the sidepanels, and now I see more of the halinski details....This is really fun!!

The drawing of the left panel shows that it contains 17 parts....



Of course there was some internal framing



That frame should be covered by another skin...



It doesn't look quite as bad as with the macrolense....

First instrument in place

 

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One panel done!

 

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Say hello to John

The pilot of the P51D....sitting on the cockpit floor trying to explain something....



I have just "tack-it'ed" the arms,legs and head because I have to change his arms to the second set to get him placed into the cockpit.

 

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Here is a small update on the cockpit.

I did the pilots seat



I had to leave out the seatbelts because of the pilot is already equipped with belts...



I also finished the last sidepanel with the throttles



And here is John Connor well seated in the cockpit

 

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Following it closely. Looks awesome so far.

 

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This one looks absolutely amazing. What is the pilot made of?

 

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The pilot is made of Resin.I got some figures in 1:32 scale from PJ Productions that will suit my builds just fine.

Check the onboardclimbing one in the me109-G2 thread!

I have been looking for pilots in that scale for a long time.

They also have a lot of figures in 1:72 and 1:48 scale!!

 

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Looks good so far, some nice ideas there too for scale on R/C Models.

Keep the pics coming !!!

Regards......Mark

 

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The skinning have started.



It looks that the fit is very good

Some more sections on the front is put on.



Next is the air inlet in the front that doesn't show anywhere on the drawings...So I'm not quite sure how far back it's supposed to be.

But I make the remaining segments and maybe it will fit somwhere when they are put together.

 

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looking great johnny! pj productions do some nice stuff.

i cant believe how much you do in such a short time!

 

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I finished the nose part today.



The front part was a bit tricky to get nice looking, so I'm not complete happy about the result of the look of the ait inlet.But seen from the normal viewing distance it looks ok.The macro lense spots every single detail

Next is the framework for the first and second segment behind the cockpit.

A lot of parts involved on this part.Will continue that part tomorrow.



And at last a pic to show the mess around me when I'm in the middle of a build

 

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looks great to me.

as for the mess...same thing happens to me. i do try and put things away at the end of the day but it never happens lol/

 

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Johnny nice kit and well put together, is it realy all card?

 

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Truly fantastic! You've got me bitten by the cardmodel bug!

 

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And at last a pic to show the mess around me when I'm in the middle of a build

It's not technically mess if you can still see some of the desktop!

I've seen far worse than that!

 

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All models I make is made of card/paper/cardboard in different thickness varying from the 60grams copypaper via 0,2mm-0,5mm and 1mm cardboard.

The only things thats not made of paper is windows, and some internal metal rods in wheel legs,control sticks and other things that is useful not to make from paper

The mess just builds up....

I usually clean up after I have finished a model, to make a fresh start on the next

 

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Hey Johnny, that Beaufighter hasn't moved since your last picture of the workbench!!