P-51 Mustang Diary, page 4
Friday, 26th August, 2011
The serial numbers, codes and national insignia for my P51-D all required accurate masks, and I struck lucky in finding a supplier on the Internet...
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Friday, 26th August, 2011
Painting has been the ruin of many an otherwise respectable model, and it is a job I fear. Even done well, it can mask fine...
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Wednesday, 24th August, 2011
Around mid-July I finally managed to permanently install the left hand control consol into the cockpit, a job that for many months had been awaiting...
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Wednesday, 3rd August, 2011
A question frequently asked by those who have seen my model during its construction is: “where do you buy all the little bits?” - an...
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Monday, 30th May, 2011
By early May, and with the tail plane fitted, it came time to fabric cover the rudder, which I was relieved to find had survived...
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Assembling the fin and tailplane
Saturday, 28th May, 2011
Completion of the wing root fairings has led naturally to the resurrection of the empennage group – tail plane, elevators, fin and rudder – which...
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Sunday, 1st May, 2011
There are aspects of human endeavour that appear wilfully to defy resolution. Over the last few months, my model has progressed apace, until, that is,...
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Monday, 25th April, 2011
I began this diary in 2009, four years after starting the model. So at this juncture, with the wings and fuselage finally united and the...
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Friday, 22nd April, 2011
I turned to the wing root fairings during the second half of March. These comprise of four separate pieces per side. In the real aircraft...
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Tuesday, 19th April, 2011
With the instrument panel completed and installed, and while there was still access from below, I could finally start to furnish the cockpit with a...
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Archive
- Retrospective: The flaps
- Retrospective: The elevators
- Retrospective: Rudder framework
- Retrospective: Outer doors
- Retrospective: Main doors
- Retrospective: Wheelbay fittings
- Retrospective: Wheelbay structure
- Retrospective: Wheelbay basics
- Retrospective: More switch panels
- Retrospective: Switch panel detail
- Retrospective: Handles and levers
- Retrospective: Control quadrant
- Retrospective: Cockpit floor
- Departure Day
- Retrospective: Rudder pedals
- Retrospective: Fuselage frames
- Retrospective: Tail wheel strut
- Retrospective: Main landing gear
- Retrospective: The chin scoop
- An end in sight
- The Mustang's tyres
- Canopy framework
- The vac-formed canopy
- VHF and battery packs
- Hamilton Standard airscrew
- The pilot's seat
- Control column assembly
- Retrospective: Auxiliary fuel tank
- Machining the wheels
- Some external stencils
- Stars and bars
- Warpaint - the first coats
- Cockpit update
- Spinning the spinner
- Rudder fabric
- Assembling the fin and tailplane
- Grappling with gremlins
- A pause to look back
- Wing root fairings
- Wings and fuselage united
- Instrument panel complete
- Gun port blisters
- A tipping point
- Welcome to my P-51 diary
