Hey Joe,
You’ve outdone yourself again! Sensational work mate, truly sensational.
I’ve been around, lurking in the background…
In fact, I have been looking at some of your old posts. Especially your Tamiya P-47 “Jug”, which I’m using as a guide for when I start my build.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”
All the best, take care.
That’s a sad truth, especially right now.
He looks so young, it’s shocking. RIP, young man.
Looks like you’re having fun with those AK paints and they look really good, but the ‘less durable than Alclad’ doesn’t sound so good.
How long have you been using packing foam to mask gear wells? That’s a neat idea. The cutting/fitting looks a little intensive, is it?
Seems you’ve been having more fun with some of your recent kits, Joe. That’s really good to see.
Greg he was only 21 when he was KIA in 44
My goodness.
Thanks Damian. I’m glad your doing well. I look forward to seeing that Jug.
Indeed Greg, none of these ungrateful kids today could hold a candle to these real men, but I’ll leave it there…lol.
The sponge is the packing material from Eduard Brassin stuff. Just cut it to the relative close size then push it in there with tweezers. It’s pretty painless. I saw someone on You Tube using it so I gave it try. It works great. It’s also good for sponging on paint for weathering. I’ve done it on bombs.
Imagine a 21 year old competent enough to fly a P-51 now, much less shoot down 7 aircraft. Thank god for that generation.
It’s a wrap on this turkey…er duck. To recap, it’s in the markings of 4th FG Donald Emerson’s fighting duck machine. He was a 7 kill ace who was KIA in this machine on Christmas 1944. I plan to do more 4th FG machines in the near future, paticularly Gentile’s Shangra La and Hofer’s Salem Reprsentaive.
What more can I say about this kit. Eduard hit a home run and having built every kit in this scale, I can confidently say now it’s the best in 1/48. I had a few minor fit issues (as I said earlier) but I’m sure they were mostly my doing. I suppose my biggest grip is Eduards need to overcomplicate things and alot of the parts are “to scale”, which translates to “fragile” and or easily lost to the floor monster. I lost one of the gear scissors and had to raid my other kit for a new one. The finished product is well worth it. Additions were Eduard Brassin wheels and main markings were painted. The Eduard decals were great as well. It got an AK Interactive oil wash. I was going for well used.
I normally use the 75 gallon droppers, but the guy I built it for wanted the 108s, which I don’t particularly like. Eduard dropped the ball here and offer lousy PE braces to attach them to the pylons. I scratch built new sway braces with rod styrene and then plumbed the tanks. They turned out ok. Next time 75 gallons…
Maybe we’ll get a B model soon?..
Wow
That’s one commision build I think I’d have a hard time parting with. It looks really good, Joe.
Thanks for getting back with me on the foam from Eduard/Brassin re the wheel well masking/packing.
There’s Joe turnin’ out another one of his “so good you could slap yo grandma” builds. You really do a good job on whatever you build.
beautiful P-51
What an interesting build, absolutely outstanding sir!
Your friend’s, Toshi & Ezra
Great looking model. The paint job is very nice.
How did you make the base that the plane sits on?
Awesome build!!
Well done Joe.
You should be proud of your work mate, another 5 star build.
Nice Joe, very nice!
I love it LD!
Thanks Johnny
Thank you Greg…and your welcome.
