P-51D "The Flying Undertaker"

Andy_W · 1 February 2025 16:03

My next Mustang. This time I’m going to finish it as Wiliam Shomo’s last Mustang: “Snook’s 6th/The Flying Undertaker”.
I bought during “Black Friday” Eduard’s overtrees and PE sets and DK Decals set, as follow:

Stay tuned

Andy_W · 1 February 2025 20:32

Cutting, sanding, gluening:

And first PE part at place:

Andy_W · 2 February 2025 13:55

First painting - clear: red, green, orange and ueno black as a base for super fine silver.

And I first interior colours: Gunze SM 201 and Ammo Mig 221

Stay tuned

Andy_W · 26 April 2025 16:29

My Interior green (Gunze H52) had ended so I bought a new one and:

From left to right: Gunze C351, the new bottle of H58 and the old one.
Surprise - the new bottle has totally different colour as the old one (to bright and more intensive). So I had to buy gunze C series.
I finally painted cockpit:

Now some wash, matt and put everything together.

Andy_W · 27 April 2025 16:34

Fuselage almost close:

Andy_W · 28 April 2025 17:19

I glued fuselage and wings.

Dry fit test.

Andy_W · 3 May 2025 13:24

I finished instrumental panel:

and glued some more parts:

Bryan · 3 May 2025 23:08

Looking good!

Andy_W · 18 May 2025 18:17

Black surfacer, sanding, black surfacer again:

First silver colour - AK Xtreme metal 481 - Polished aluminium (with F-6 in 1:48):

Andy_W · 25 May 2025 18:54

I painted wings white aluminium (AK Xtreme 478).

Next I put steel at engine cover (AK Xtreme 476).

I painted also anti glare panel (Olive drab - Tamiya XF-62) and yellow tip of stabilizer (Gunze H329) - It’s not finished yet.