P-51D "The Flying Undertaker"

[Andy_W]

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:

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[Andy_W]

Cutting, sanding, gluening:

And first PE part at place:

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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]

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.

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Fuselage almost close:

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I glued fuselage and wings.

Dry fit test.

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I finished instrumental panel:

and glued some more parts:

[Bryan]

Looking good!

[Andy_W]

Black surfacer, sanding, black surfacer again:

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

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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.

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I painted the propeller:

And I started to paint black stripes. Wings were first:

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I painted black stripes on fuselage. I need to paint some areas once again (stripes are not straight).

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Decals, decals, decals

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All decals on place:

Propeller:

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I’m close to the finish:
uundercarriage

exhausts

mounted

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Finished. More pictures soon.

[Biggles50]

Is that instrument panel pre-colored from Edward? It’s totally insane (meaning great)!

[Andy_W]

Leo, yes it comes from Eduard PE set. But it has a mistake (maybe not visible clearly) - middle part of panel should be lover than the rest, not upper.