Chris's Twin Mustangs ***FINISHED***

[jssel]

My bad Chris. You sheet shows QP*D. Need another cup of joe. VF*D could have been Glover's and a few others.

[Chris]

No worries Jeff, 'Jan's' marking on included on the sky sheet, including the correct tail designator.

If you want them PM me your address and I'll shoot them to you.

[Saxon]

Nice work.

[Chris]

The noses are painted, and the tail of Heatwave


The wings are next, that open panel is a horrible fit, will need putty


The wing roots of both need a lot of putty


The bottom panel is even worse, this is one of the worst engineered kits I ever saw from Monogram


Eagleston's plane is puttied up the same way


After the putty has dried, it is sanded and the tape is removed


Extra putty and sanding was needed under the nose


The 2nd plane is done the same way


Heatwave and eagle are almost ready for paint

[Loftleidir]

great job on a difficult kit !

[Chris]

The planes are preped for painting and the tail is masked


The planes are sprayed with black laquer


The planes are sprayed with rustoleum silver

[Dirkpitt289]

oooh pretty....

[Chris]

Masked and painted the anti glare panels


Props are assembled and touched up


I started doing the decals for Louisanna heatwave first as I was trying some invasion stripe aeromaster decals. The top and side ones went on ok, but I realized that because of the underwing pylons the lower decals were no go, so i decided to paint them instead. I had to mask the area that would be sprayed white while protecting the surface decals and paintjob. I used tamiya tape and some napkins for this


After the white spray had dried I masked off the black stripes and did them with a bursh to save time


The upper stripes need touch ups as the decals were designed for teh Tamiya kit and didn't fit correctly. In hindsight I should have just painted them from the start.

[Chris]

The nose is decaled and attached, don't worry, I fixed the misaligned code on one of the blades


Started decaling Eagleston's plane, made a stupid mistake on the top and hit it with the wrong silver and it flaked a bit, no matter


Next thing is the canopy is prepainted


Canopy is attached with white glue, the rear slides so it can be displayed open or closed



Same is done for the eagle, and I decided to hit it with some clear laquer to smoothe the flake a tad, and because the decals were not adhearing to the improper paint. The nose panel will have to be dulled


The two birds side by side, next is landing gear and underwing stores

[jssel]

Coming together really nice.

[Chris]

Thanks Jeff

Heat wave gets it's landing gear and tanks



Eagle gets hers as well




Home strech now, just a few details and they are done

[jssel]

Looking very tasty, Chris. Really like the finishes.

[Dirkpitt289]

I really like the way these turned out Chris. Bravo!

[Chris]

And the job is done

[Saxon]

Nice builds.