This is a 1/72
Mustang 1A, using the Hasegawa P-51 B as the base kit, in a rather unusual
colour scheme. Lower interior of fuselage and nose were packed with plastic
strip then reprofiled when fuselage was glued together.
Upper wing surfaces rescribed to represent the cannon armed variant, intake
above nose is a piece of shaped sprue and the leading edge wing root redused to
represent the earlier Mustang. 3 of the 4 prop blade holes were filled, 2 new
ones added and the blades are from a Tamiya Mosquito. Cannon stubs and barrels
are plastic rod.
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Painted using
humbrol colours, No.155 Olive drab and (I think) No.64 for the Neutral Grey. The
light blue also came from the Humbrol range.
There are two photos of this
aircraft in Air Force Colours, Vol.3, by Dana Bell. Trials were carried out in
1943 to paint a Mustang to look like a P-40, in an attempt to help stop allied
gunners confusing the Mustang with the Me 109, and maybe force the enemy to
alter tactics. Light blue was sprayed on wing/tail/fin tips, with a thin border
of white just inside the blue. Black was then sprayed inside the white using a
template to produce a hard edge, creating a reasonably effective look. Cannon
stubs were also
given a coat of the light blue.
Neil
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