P-51D-51 Mumustang or Verystang (completed page 1)

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In the broken parts that I found (see my topics about F-16VT, P-38S, Boulton-Paul P.99C) there were also these 2 parts:

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It seems to be a P-51 4-blade propeller (Heller 1/72) glued on a P-51 underwing tank, to look like a remote propeller (after gears and shafts), and a P-51 fin (Heller 1/72) glued on a piece of sprue, with additional little parts to make this solid (and preventing to make it a vertical fin after a boom in the rear of a wing, no: horizontal after a wing [outward or inward] or vertical after a fin [direction above or below]).
I know the principle of where this comes from: each year for Christmas, my brother was offering me an Unicraft kit (as I like Igor as a friend but feel guilty to pay so much myself), in resin with thermoformed canopy that I am not able to handle properly (after acute failure) so each Christmas I buy a Heller 1/72 P-51D kit with 2 injected canopies, one for the Unicraft kit (turned as whif fantasy of mine) and one for a whif P-51 to invent. This happened many times, many years, and those whif P-51s of mine may be partly broken, and like now reconstructed. I will try to invent a new one with these 2 groups of parts. See possibilities below (on standard P-51 first, without yet considering other possibilities like canards and flying wings that I made).


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+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/P-51_profil10_fg.jpg

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The lack of aerodynamics with the spinner larger than the axis makes it bad in pusher position though, and I would prefer it as tractor, maybe at wingtip to counteract the torque of an airplane with a single main propeller.

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Here is what will be probably the receiver model, clearly broken (propeller with 1 missing blade, to become 2-blade soon for balance).

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This wreck of model comes from the P-51P-208 at https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,45971.0.html
I plan to use the extra propeller with shaft as tractor antitorque device on the starboard wing, which is new for this model. Concerning the boom with a fin becoming tailplane, the source model had them, two of them already, and I will not glue it back without change (even if the single one would create a new asymmetry). Either I will install it as external tailplane instead of internal, or as vertical fin, with shortened boom, on the port wing, yes.
An instant of creative smile (whif happiness)...

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Now the (shortened) boom and fin are glued on, the propeller has found balance again (2-blade). Just remains the antitorque device to install, and a little drop of paint on the broken blade:

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As drawing, the final project:

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Here is the repaired model, finished:


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+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/r_IMG_5860_d30-x4.jpg

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With mirror copy, here is the Twin-Mumustang: twin-pod single-boom, symmetric:

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The opposite mirror copy (Twin-Verystang?) has a weird propeller, but it is twin-boom! (and twin-pod, symmetric also):

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