Quote from: Captain Canada on February 12, 2025, 02:31:06 PMNice work ! Love the Mustang. Then again, who doesn't !

Thank you, Captain! 
Mustang is one of the most beautiful planes ever... and no matter how many cool stealth fighter designs are created, the Mustang's beauty can't be denied... it will always hold a special place in aviation.

Makes me wish i'd bought some of those HPM race plane kits back when they were all over evil-bay like a rash.

Most stealth fighter designs are just plain ugly to my mind anyway.

With the possible exception of the F-23, that's a beauty!

Quote from: zenrat on February 13, 2025, 03:18:01 AMMakes me wish i'd bought some of those HPM race plane kits back when they were all over evil-bay like a rash.

Same here... and i remember almost buying one when they were available at the PJ productions website. I had one in the cart along with a bunch of other stuff but then reality kicked in with the available budget for that month and i ended up removing it instead of the PJ 1/72 Mirage III/V kit before the checkout.
Finding one now will probably be difficult and most likely very expensive. They are very good looking planes indeed.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 13, 2025, 04:45:58 AMMost stealth fighter designs are just plain ugly to my mind anyway.

With the possible exception of the F-23, that's a beauty!

I'll admit that although i do think that they could look better, i like some of the real ones we've seen so far. There are exceptions for me and, no, Fat Amy(F-35) is not in the same league as the Mustang, but i like the way it looks anyway. 
The YF-22 was horrible compared to the YF-23 but IMO, the F-22 became a good looking machine.
There's no denying the beauty of the YF-23 design but i know that if the wings remained the same size for the extended fuselage of the production model, it would begin to resemble a dart like the F-104...
Seriously now, the images of the production model look good and like the F-22, i'm sure the F-23 would've looked even better than the prototype... That's why one of the 4 YF-23 kits in my stash is meant exactly for the purpose of building a production model.

Back to the Mustang, today was pipe drilling day...
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Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics but i was taking them while talking to the guys at my "local" modelling club on messenger.
Yup, definitely an improvement so the work payed off...
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Now i can concentrate on finishing the interior bits so i can close the fuselage and move on with the build. Not much to do before that happens, just have to assemble the tailwheel's support structure and glue it in place, same with the cockpit...

 

Nicely done.    I hate to think how many I would have ruined, trying the same thing...

  

  Klasse !

Hotte

Quote from: Rick Lowe on February 13, 2025, 07:57:38 PMNicely done.    I hate to think how many I would have ruined, trying the same thing...

You and me both. Exceptionaly well done, wish my hands were even marginaly as steady as that nowdays.

Thank you, gentlemen! 
It was something i just had to do cause those pipes looked awful.
Unfortunately i haven't done anything else since then cause i've been fiddling with detailing the Heller Alouette III's engine.