F82 Twin Mustang

[kfriend]

Ok, first try at posting on the forum; bear with me. This post is about a project I started about 3 years ago; a 1/32 scale Twin Mustang. I was determined to make a model of this forgotten warbird that was as accurate as possible. Little did I know that I would get to see a real one come to life

Link to the Gallery

Thanks for all the warm welcomes!

Ken Friend

 

[moon puppy]

Ken you got the uploading to the gallery down pat, now just need to figure out the cut and past of the BBCode to the forum.

But not to worry, you keep posting images like these and I'll gladly assist in anyway to get them posted.

Amazing work!!!

So you made the master forms out of wood then did vacuform?

Love it!

 

[kfriend]

The only parts that are vacuum formed are the canopies; I made my own rig for those. The masters were used to make silicon molds, and the parts were poured in resin. The molds are holding up really well, and so far I have pulled 9 sets of parts from them. The one i am building now will have landing gear, cockpit, and gun bay details, but will be the XP. The molds create the Merlin powered variants only. The Allison nose might come later.....

Thanks for the help!

Ken

 

[phantom II]

:woohoo: Amazing project ! Congratulation !

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Leopard2]

That is just fantastic.

 

[MrT]

Fantastic Ken!!!

Terry

 

[moon puppy]

Amazing Ken, pure modelbuilding

 

[Iron Mike]

Very cool!

 

[Adam Baker]

Very very nice!

Did you do the CAD work?

 

[kfriend]

Very very nice!

Did you do the CAD work?

Yes, fortunately I am a beta tester for TurboCad, and get to try all the new stuff. The Twin Mustang was a perfect testbed.....

Ken

 

[Adam Baker]

Cool. I've heard of TurboCAD, but havent ever used it. I do all my modeling w/ Solidworks.

 

[paddy]

You should supply instructions with TurboCad for "build your own P51" best i ever managed was a 3D kitchen :laugh:
Wait till chuk see's this, he will have puppy's -)
Excellent work.