1/48 Tamiya F-51 Mustang

Gallery Article by Darius Aibara on Sept 7 2003

 

This is the superb Tamiya bubbletop Mustang built as a  USAF Korean War F-51.  The kit was assembled and decaled out of the box.  

 

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To add interest to the bmf I spray-primed the whole model with Halfords grey auto-primer and then masked off various panels etc with Tamiya masking tape.  Next I sprayed Halfords "Nissan Silver" and when dry removed the masking tape and polished the whole with SNJ powder.  The grey primed panels give a dull finish which contrasts with the shiny spray silver areas.

The Tamiya Mustangs are some of the best engineered kits that I had the pleasure of building! 

Darius Aibara

      

Photos and text © by Darius Aibara