Subject: Re: 1/72 Mustang 1A
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Neil Burkill" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:52:14 -0700

Hi Neil,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks for
sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Burkill" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:05 AM
Subject: 1/72 Mustang 1A

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> "1/72 Mustang 1A" (back-dated from Hasegawa P-51 B)
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> by "Neil Burkill"
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> Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here
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> 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.
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> Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here
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> 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.
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> Photos and text © 2004 by "Neil Burkill"
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