Yay, targets! Oh, right, they’re on my side…[:O]
Thanks, that’s helpful to know. I’d have preferred the single piece indy link tracks, but I’ll give the DS tracks a shot before I hit up the aftermarket.
Landing gear being applied:
Decals being applied:
Aaaannd she’s DONE! Final reveal of the MiG-15:
Congratulations on being the first to finish, AA! [:D] Which photo would you like for the roster; and what will you name your entry (for the contest later on)?
Thanks, John. Use photo #2 of this last sequence of five as the cover page photo. For a title, use “Soviet Air Forces pilot, Capt. Nikolai Sutyagin, Korea, 1952.”
If the kit has the guide horns, it probably has the indy link tracks too. They are on the same sprues.
Np; and roger that, AA! [Y]
AA: Ohhhhh nice work!!! Very cool and very fast! [Y]
And love those M46s guys, they look even better with the tiger face!
BTW: Watched ‘Welcome to Dongmakgol’ last night. A 2005 South Korean movie set in the Korean war about three retreating North Korean soldiers, two lost South Korean solders, and a shot-down US Navy aviator who end up in Dongmakgol- a sleepy little town full of innocent sweet people and one weird ‘crazy girl’ (sorry, don’t call me sexist- that’s what the movie called her- ‘crazy girl’).
Not sure I liked it or not, it was just kinda weird… Half drama and half comedy. But ‘crazy girl’ was really cute if dangerous- in this clip she grabs the ring out of one of the North Korean’s grenades [:|]
And the US planes were P-47Cs, aka the ‘razorback’ version of the the P-47. Which as far as I know no P-47s were ever used in the Korean War. And what the heck was a Navy pilot doing in a P-47!?! The planes were CGI- they could have drawn F4Us just as easy.
Yeah, they should’ve used Corsairs or even Panthers for Navy planes…
Well, I’m reached an issue and I haven’t even started yet!
P-51s used in the Second World War had a putty material squirted into the panel lines on the wings and then it sanded flat. Then the wing was coated with a silver laquer. The extra work gave the fighter an extra 5-10 mph. I cannot find any details on Korean War F-51Ds got the same or not. Most of the aircraft used in Korea were pulled out of storage so they may not have. I did find some good photos where the wings look the same colour as the fusilage and tail. So I’m guessing they were all natural metal with no silver laquer?
If I build a Korean War Mustang it won’t have any filler in the seams. I think you are safe doing it that way, and without much variation between panels. Aged aluminum is just like old people, we all look the same!
I can’t tell anything from the second photo; however, the other two look like the have worn silver paint on the wings. I would not lose any sleep over it either way.
Thanks guys!
I don’t want to fill those panel lines in the wings anyway.
1). It’s more work.
2). As Lawdog said over on the aircraft forum Tamiya put some really nice detail in there. It’s a shame to putty it over and cover it up.
So I’m going to leave it as is. I did though find out the interesting detail that these aircraft the interior was painted flat black over the interior green. Great to find that out now instead of when I close up the fusilage.
Happy New Year! Welcome to the Twenties, everybody!
or Skyraiders…
Time to get this build going! I sort of cleaned up the model bench and set the box down on it, as in the first picture. Here we go.
And the box’s art and its contents.
Nice kit! Are you going to do the “Four Queens” version?
No, I’ll do one flown by one of the “ordinary guys”, got lots of pictures to work from.