Good day, for my
first submission to ARC website, I would like to show you my second
attempt of rebirthing an old model. I built this P 51 more than ten years ago,
it was painted as the big beautiful doll, and after a first attempt to use
aluminium tape as the skin for an old monogram P-51, I decided to try this
method on the Tamiya model. I stripped all the paint off the model, and
covered it carefully with self adhesive aluminium tape. Once fully
covered, the aluminium is engraved and weathered with oil paint. The stars
and bars and the checkerboard are painted ones, the rest of the paint
scheme are standard decals.
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images below to see larger images
I added some extra home
made detail and use an aftermarket seatbelt.
Covering the model with aluminium tape is a long and demanding task,
especially with an already built model. But the result is quite realistic,
and as far as the oil paint weathering is dry, you can easily manipulate
the model and add some extra weathering or polish back some panel on the
plane. I have tested this method on some spare parts, and painting a
standard camouflage on an aluminium taped wings gives a
realistic result too.
Thanks for looking
at my model and have fun modelling.
Frédéric Schwebel
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