Greetings All,
I thought I would begin to share my Mustang build with you.To dare, its been ongoing now for about the last seven(7) months. It involves the rebuild of the Blue Box/ Ultimate Soldier 1/18 P-51. After following a friends build dealing with the same topic, and given my love of the Mustang, I just had to do it.
I managed to find two of them on ebay at very cheap prices so i picked up both of them. One would be for rebuild, the other would be used as a parts bird. At first glance...its big. However, it isnt as big as you might think. There are currently kits available that are bigger, but for certain, its the biggest Mustang you might ever see save for RC offerings.
Keep in mind, this was not intended to be a scale model. Hence, when a deficiency is called out, it is not intended to devalue the toy. Deficiency call outs are simply differences between the part in extant and the drawings. The build began with disassembly; something it wasnt designed to have done to it since it is both screwed and glued together.Some of the tear down was quite challenging, but eventually it yielded.
Once this was done, individual parts could be compared/measured to see how far out they were.Surprisingly, given its purpose as more toy than anything else, it supplied a very good set of bones upon which to begin.
After comparisons were made to the drawings, deficiencies were identified and the fuselage was split into three (3) sections consisting of, nose (firewall forward),center section (firewall aft to STA 248) and the empennage. This was done for ease of handling and to make corrections to length and cross section.
This was the methodology that would be used throughout the build.This build is many months old and to reproduce text would take forever. In this light, Ill just post pics of whats been done thus far and leave it open to discussion and any questions that might pop up.
Hope you enjoy...
Prop/spinner rebuild...
I thought I would begin to share my Mustang build with you.To dare, its been ongoing now for about the last seven(7) months. It involves the rebuild of the Blue Box/ Ultimate Soldier 1/18 P-51. After following a friends build dealing with the same topic, and given my love of the Mustang, I just had to do it.
I managed to find two of them on ebay at very cheap prices so i picked up both of them. One would be for rebuild, the other would be used as a parts bird. At first glance...its big. However, it isnt as big as you might think. There are currently kits available that are bigger, but for certain, its the biggest Mustang you might ever see save for RC offerings.
Keep in mind, this was not intended to be a scale model. Hence, when a deficiency is called out, it is not intended to devalue the toy. Deficiency call outs are simply differences between the part in extant and the drawings. The build began with disassembly; something it wasnt designed to have done to it since it is both screwed and glued together.Some of the tear down was quite challenging, but eventually it yielded.
Once this was done, individual parts could be compared/measured to see how far out they were.Surprisingly, given its purpose as more toy than anything else, it supplied a very good set of bones upon which to begin.
After comparisons were made to the drawings, deficiencies were identified and the fuselage was split into three (3) sections consisting of, nose (firewall forward),center section (firewall aft to STA 248) and the empennage. This was done for ease of handling and to make corrections to length and cross section.
This was the methodology that would be used throughout the build.This build is many months old and to reproduce text would take forever. In this light, Ill just post pics of whats been done thus far and leave it open to discussion and any questions that might pop up.
Hope you enjoy...
Prop/spinner rebuild...
