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Revell P-51D-5

jeaton01

Well-known member
Finally got some work to show on this one. I had done some cockpit work before I started cancer treatment in March, and had gotten up to needing to add seat belts. I had to be away from home during much of the treatments, and then the side effects and need for caution about infections due to my immune system being compromised (the treatment is a form of transplant) made it so no modeling was possible. I still have to be careful but I am cleared back to the bench now. Unfortunately one of the side effects is that the tremor I have always had was made much worse. Putting together the HGW seatbelts was a 5 or 6 hour challenge but last week I got them done and installed. The interior parts are together and closed up in the fuselage. Don't know why but there are areas where I just couldn't get things to fall in to place without some gaps, but nothing too bad. Still, disappointing, and I don't thing it is all my errors. The way the exhausts and shrouds are engineered causes some complications as they have to be installed from the inside. I painted and assembled the exhaust parts, and painted the fuselage area around the exhausts the British Dark Green that the topsides are in for the scheme I am doing. Then I installed the exhausts from the inside. I will mask that area off before doing the rest of the topside painting.

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Great to see you back on the bench John! Best wishes on your recovery.

I remember building this years ago and had the same issue. :popcorn
 
Didn't know you were going through that John. Glad to see you posting and building again. Keep up with the struggle, we are all pulling for you!
 
Glad your back John and 'creds' to you getting back to the bench and getting the fiddly bits done on this one with all that you are going through.
:soldier :ro::good:
 
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