1/48 Dragon P-51K

Gallery Article by Stuart Saville on Aug 14 2009

 

The Dragon kit is a great model to detail. I used no resin parts or etch kits for this model. The kit comes with a nice Merlin engine that even has a detailed supercharger. The kit does have some fit issues around the cockpit and the engine bay, but with a little forward thinking it can be masked. 

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The kit also comes with 8 .50 cal brownings and with a little love....some swearing and dropping of little parts that seem disappear into thin air!!! You get two gunbays. I may add some figures later and give the model a base to sit on.

The Mustang was pre shaded in black and then airbrushed with good old Humbrol no. 11 and buffed up with a cloth. Then I dry brushed the airframe with grey and black. I distressed the decals with a pin after applying them.

Stuart Saville

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Photos and text © by Stuart Saville