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When tasked with the job of developing a new fighter, North American Aviation combined current technologies and also came up with some new enhancements that would make the P-51 arguably one of the best fighters of all time. One of these enhancements was laminar flow airfoils, for the smooth, uninterrupted flow of air over the…
It has been a while since my last post but our house renovation has pretty much eaten up all of my free time. But with the work finally winding down I was able to get some bench time in on the Tamiya Mustang. I decided to switch gears from engine work and move on to…
We have been doing a little spring cleaning, or at this current time winter cleaning, and I came across a box of old models that haven’t been touched. One delightful surprise in the box was Tamiya’s 1/48 scale P-51D. I have been super detailing my Tamiya 1/32 P-51D to a point where I could rebuild…
The first snips of the spruce have been made and the construction of Revell’s 1/72 B-17G have begun. I started with the first steps in the instructions which are to construct the bombay. I decided to have the bombay doors in the closed position, so I constructed just what was needed to merge the bulkheads…
I finally finished up the exhaust ignition harnesses. I had a lot of trouble with these compared to the intake ignition harnesses. With the top harnesses I was able use copper wire and “fudge” the location of where the ignition lines connect to the spark plugs since they are hidden from the intake covers. However,…
This will be a lot of firsts for me, I have never built a kit from Revell and never a 1/72 scale kit. I was surprised by the quality of this kit as I have never ranked Revell as a high end kit player but the amount of goodies they provide in such a small…
I haven’t modeled since I was a young kid putting together Revell kits with Testors cement and finishing them in a couple hours. Even though I haven’t touched a kit since middle school, I have continued to follow model forums and build sites. Now, at the age of 33 and with the recent purchase of…