What-ifing a 1/32 Mustang

Tophe · September 19, 2009, 10:33:10 AM

In 1977-78 probably (my JMN years, 14 year old), I built this 1/32 P-51D, and during many home-moving, only the propellers have been broken away. Now it stands (on the wall) almost correct but... not what-if enough.
So I am going to "improve" the tail. With an inverted V addition. As P-51^.

Tophe · September 19, 2009, 10:50:45 AM

project P-51^ :

Brian da Basher · September 23, 2009, 03:07:06 AM

Yowsa that's wickedly cool, Tophe! I look forward to watching your progress on this very intriguing project.

Brian da Basher

Captain Canada · September 23, 2009, 03:40:25 AM

The original is a nice peice of work, Tophe ! Be sure to save a few pics of her before she's gone forever !

And as an aside to the new tail, it looks like the ground crew can just throw a tarp over it and have a place to stay !

Tophe · September 23, 2009, 08:19:58 PM

Thanks for the comments, friends.

I will do it probably next week-end. With putty and sanding the week after, then painting again the whole tail (all yellow probably).

Tophe · September 26, 2009, 01:24:11 AM

Here is the weekend and, uh... my workbench has been ~~invaded by~~ shared with
my dear wife...

Tophe · September 26, 2009, 07:33:00 AM

Standing back on the wall (waiting for completion):

Tophe · September 26, 2009, 07:46:14 AM

Detail: as I dislike

nationalism, as I dislike

the acute Western racism of giving back the Palestine to the Hebrews without giving back the USA to Native Americans... the N.A. P-51D of the USAF has become Native American P-51V of the UTAF (United Tribes Amerindia Force)

Tophe · September 26, 2009, 07:48:13 AM

Well, I have let the USAF roundel on the (weaponless) asymmetric Singalina improved by my wife, towing a Filipino Bacolod-Mascara souvenir...

Tophe · September 26, 2009, 08:58:16 PM

My can of yellow paint is empty, so the P-51V will not wait

for another order and envoice, but probably have a white tail, and I will put white covers also on machine guns, as I am a ~~naive~~ crazy pacifist, sorry...

Tophe · September 27, 2009, 07:33:48 AM

The first coat of white paint is on the tail, and the deadly claws have been discarded and covered with a gentle (peaceful white) glove.

Tophe · September 27, 2009, 07:36:56 AM

A detail of the pilot face, bright orange

, reveals that I was not completely a true-JMN

(no more flesh paint, aw, too bad, I will take another color

). And that is absolutely perfect now (32 years later) for the what-if story of the "improved" "moralized" model : this is not a white US pilot at all, this is a red-skin Amerindian pilot...

Tophe · September 27, 2009, 08:09:03 PM

Quote from: Tophe on September 26, 2009, 07:46:14 AM
P-51V of the UTAF (United Tribes Amerindia Force)

With no gun anymore, the UTAF is no more a Force but a Flight or Firm or... I don't know

Brian da Basher · September 29, 2009, 01:18:02 PM

I like the peaceful, white gloves, mon ami! I always appreciate your un-warlike approach to What-If.

Brian da Basher

Tophe · September 29, 2009, 09:24:07 PM

Thanks Brian, and she is now completed: