This
Tamiya kit is very beautiful quality and well finished.
The parts are very elegantly engraved, with a good level of detail,
and it gives the possibility to build two P-51bs.
One with the bare metal finish and one in Olive Green for the more
famous Shangri-la. This
model doesn't need almost any filler because the joints
are so perfect that the filler it becomes superfluous.
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I
built the plane called Shangri-la flown by Capt. D. Gentile, of the
336th FS, 4th FGs. I have not
put any armament under the wings and on the contrary I went with two 108 gallons fuel
tanks. For the painting I used only
model-master paints , more particularly the olive drab, the
red, the white, the neutral grey and the aluminium.
I painted the upper surfaces with olive drab
and of neutral grey on the lower surfaces.
Then I clear coated both the colors with some drops of white color,
and I have crossed again every panel line of the wings and the fuselage.
Subsequently I painted the 2 stripes on the wings with white color and the red band in the
interior part of the fuselage.
After having given two coats of gloss clear coat, I applied
the decals with the Mr MARK from GUNZE SANGYO.
Once
dry, I applied another coat of gloss clear coat and one of dull coat.
The last phase concerns the aging of the model and the relative smoke
stains,
both of the exhausts of the motor and of the machine guns.
I
would suggest to model to anyone looking for an enjoyable build...this kits
requires very little frrot to build.
Good
fun boys!
Busolini
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