This
is the Academy 1/72 P51-D Mustang, built as A68-737, flown by Ray Trebilco, RAAF
77 Squadron out of
Iwakuni
,
Japan
during the Korean War. You can read about Ray’s exploits at
http://www.kmike.com/oz/kr/chapter29.htm.
My
mode of modeling these days is to find cheap kits to improve, hence the Academy
offering which was $AUD10. During my research I then find an interesting
individual aircraft or pilot and build around that. Ray was of interest to
me because I think I was at boarding school in
Canberra
with his son Andrew.
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images below to see larger images
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I
generally don’t spend much on after-market accessories, preferring to scratch
build added detail. This included:
- Scratch built gun-sight,
missile pylons, formation lights, drop tank sway braces, brake lines, fuel
lines, radiator grill;
- Drilled out camera port and
shortened inboard gun barrel
- Filled some wing panel
seams as per the pinned post on ARC on this
Decals
are spares from a modeling colleague and A-codes from Snowy Mountains Models in
Melbourne
.
Cockpit
detail on this kit is very good. Some wing root filling was required.
Tamiya AS-12 was used for the BMF, beautiful stuff to use straight from
spray can. Exhaust & gun stains using pastel dust.
David
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