P 51 MUSTANG

[Jesters-Ink]

Puckering up ready

[gamary]

Well, guys, it's a good thing your gals aren't reading this thread.

Funny: the very first drawing John posted strikes me as quite good, though I don't know why. What's wrong with it?

[JMSmith]

here we go,

some of these have been flipped, so they are faceing the right way, also the first two are taken a little low, this means you are not seeing the full amount of curve just behind the spinner.

these are 50% of the originals

[Jesters-Ink]

These pics don’t really help Mr. Smith, they are taken too close to the subject and suffer from lens distortion. I wouldn’t trust a single shape from them. They are good for getting a “feel” for the aircraft, but no use for anything else.
This example would give better results, but the problem here is, its not a war time bird and details would have to be checked thoroughly before proceeding.
Very tricky . . . . . . . .

[JMSmith]

thanks jester,

thats exactly the image i was looking for, far enough away and at the right level.

[Jesters-Ink]

I have about 17 of them, all of which I used to make my outline shape, lol look where that got me
btw, hope you get your eye sorted, been there done that, took me boat loads of eye wash a drops to get over it.

[JMSmith]

i think the next step is to remove eyeball and fit new ones

[Jarink]

now back to the profile, front fuselage, top edge from windscreen to spinner, this is a very complex curve, and very very hard to get right, later i will post some images to show my point.

This is especially true for the "B" as most of them had a bit of a "hump" immediately in front the windscreen compared to the D.
A very exhaustive thread here, including some adapted factory drawings starting on page 2.

[Jesters-Ink]

Quick test . . . .

[Ugo Crisponi]

Glass canopies shapes are different. Are both original or the lower one is a remake?....BTW, this thread is really on the right way. This outline seems to be the definitive P-51D shape.....