Push-pull Tri-Mustang (Crazy Mustangs step 7)

Tophe · September 24, 2010, 11:45:30 AM

Next one, still 1/72: a half P-82 (Monogram), a P-51B/C Malcolm Hood (Hasegawa) truncated for total vision, a P-51D (Matchbox) turned pusher canard, all together as a 3-fuselage twin-tail push-pull craft:

Tophe · September 24, 2010, 11:47:21 AM

The project, detailed, fuselage per fuselage. The problem is that the Malcolm Hood glassware is a square, not rounded, I will have to correct a little.

Tophe · September 25, 2010, 01:51:13 AM

So the pleasant truncation part is done, making imagination dream of the result... Then, a lot of hard work has to be operated before (maybe) a pleasant result at the end again...

Pablo1965 · September 25, 2010, 10:41:08 AM

I was preparing a F-82 to do something similar to your pull and push.
It is a serendipity. Jajajajaja.
Thanks

Tophe · September 27, 2010, 09:30:32 AM

Puty is on as a start of hard work. I have glued the P-51C canopy as I will sand a link to the fuselage from it (painting canopies black allows me to do that, without letting untouched the clear parts)

Pablo1965 · September 27, 2010, 04:03:58 PM

Quote from: Tophe on September 27, 2010, 09:30:32 AM
Puty is on as a start of hard work. I have glued the P-51C canopy as I will sand a link to the fuselage from it (painting canopies black allows me to do that, without letting untouched the clear parts)

Great, is a hard work. Now, I use Milliput Silver-Grey, is more easy to me.
I hope see the "Pull & Push" soon.

Tophe · October 01, 2010, 09:22:20 AM

Taking shape:

Tophe · October 01, 2010, 09:25:22 AM

The two-fuselage very asymmetric push-pull intermediary state almost seduced me... I hesitated to finish it like that... But I must get rif of all the Mustangs I had, and this will be a triple-fuselage slightly symmetric, all right.

Tophe · October 05, 2010, 11:32:01 AM

The three elements are glued together, paint remains to be done.

Pablo1965 · October 05, 2010, 12:50:43 PM

Marching

Tophe · October 08, 2010, 09:37:15 AM

On the shelf, this model will not stand on a paint pot, so... I needed something and I thought of something crazy (for me): wheels! Well, no need of legs, just wheels glued under the fuselages - they don't need to rotate: a desk model does not roll nor fly

Pablo1965 · October 08, 2010, 01:30:09 PM

Hi Tophe... This kind of combination give me more ideas. Thank you. the model is great

and worrying :blink:make me think in another kind of works

Tophe · October 09, 2010, 01:48:10 AM

Painting has started. Still blades and canopies. (I will let the "wheels" sky blue, as they have no rubber tyre at all, this is plastic in true life story)

sequoiaranger · October 09, 2010, 07:45:33 AM

This is an amazing undertaking, Tophe. I can't wait to see the final product.

Tophe · October 10, 2010, 01:56:46 AM

The blades are painted, bubble-ing the C port part has started, but I will not finish today.