So time for another new Tool Airfix kit, I'm taking part in a Latin American Group Build on another forum and I chose to do a Mustang in postwar service with the Uruguayan Air Force.

 

Anyhow here's the Box Art, Instructions, decals, sprues/frames & aftermarket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building up the cockpit & interior, now I chose to assemble the cockpit and fuselage interior in one go and then paint - so I don't have any fit issues when I close up the fuselage.

 

 

 

 

With the interior installed on one side of the fuselage it was time to close it up.

 

 

As the kit caters for various versions of the P/F-51 there are different tail options, so a bit of filler was needed.

 

 

Wing Assembly and fit was next.

 

 

 

Nice touch with the kit is, plug in flaps, which makes things easier to paint.

 

 

More bit were assembled and fitted (the elevators aren't glued on)

 

 

Windscreen was fitted and Canopy test fitted and there bits to add here too. Also, being a post war Mustang it with a different type of aerial, I raided the spares box for that.

 

 

 

Bomb Racks installed & main undercarriage center door assembly test fitted.

 

 

Disaster, went to mask up the canopy, I'd only got the wrong scale masks - oops.

 

 

Fortunately the replacements arrived yesterday!

 

 

 

So that's all for this part of the build.

 

TTFN

 

James