Aussie Mustangs

[GrubbyFingers]

Inside of the door has been revised (thanks Jarink) and the flaps have been dropped. That excersize took some serious brain power, working out what would and wouldn't be seen and adding in detail you could now see through the hole in the wing where the flap used to be.

[gamary]

That flap part is quite impressive, Grubby! I can't wait to see it finished.

[santynus]

I gree with GM bravo grubby

[Vacajun]

Grubby,

Fantastic!!

How about one last tweak of the aft lower fuselage panel lines? Take a look at the photo of "Double Trouble" in the Gallery (second from the left in row three) and see the missing oleo inspection panel under the forward horizontal tail and the more forward location of the last panel line at the rear of the fuselage. I remember these being discussed in Jarink's thread "An interesting P-51 thread" on the accuracy of P-51 drawings. This baby's just too close to perfection to leave them out!

You are the Man!! Congrats on a terrific job.

[Vacajun]

Grub,

Please don't burn my house!!! Just trying to add a little more info for you on that flap detail. Photo of "Quick Silver" in the Gallery (top row, last photo) shows you the detail on the flap end and the fuselage cut-out area. IMHO, what is most important is to capture the "cusp" shaped cross-section of the flap as a result of its laminar-flow airfoil (those nasty NACA guys!).

Hope these shots help. I've already taken a number to stand in line waiting with the masses to see the final version of this beauty!

[GrubbyFingers]

Vacajun, the problem is not the lower panel line, it's that bloody great access panel above it! I have it between the wrong stations!!!!

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check the flap shape and that small access panel under the tail is there now. It missed the Illustrator - Photoshop translation.

I really appreciate the comments. You end up with tunnel vision when you've been looking at the same thing for weeks!

Graeme.

[GrubbyFingers]

Is this better? I still need to do the highlight along the top of the wing root and also some of the shading.

[Jarink]

Those close-ups look awesome. Way, way beyond the detail I hope to put into my profiles.
This is going to be great when you're finished with it.

[Vacajun]

Grubby,

That is absolutely unbelievable!!!!WOW!! This is Hall of Fame stuff. Best I've ever seen. Congrats!

Joe

[GrubbyFingers]

I think I'm done on this one. No doubt I'll wake up screaming at 3 am when I think of something I've forgotten.

This is P-51D 44-13293, A68-1001. She was used as the pattern aircraft for local P-51 manufacture and didn't actually fly here until late 1945. She was the only Mustang in Australia to wear camo. The rest were all bare metal or silver.



I've already thought of two things! Stencils and the underwing roundels. Back to the drawing board tomorrow...