despondman's Airfix P-51D Mustang **Finished**

[despondman]

I find it impossible to plan a blitz for a given day and was hoping that I might find a day before the month runs out, and today is the day.
A day off work and with my original plans for the day cancelled I am going to blitz the Airfix P-51D Mustang.

[despondman]

Firstly the all important pre-blitz preparations - a bacon butty!!

[despondman]

10:00am and ready to rumble. First job is to affix the instrument panel decal.

[Old_Tonto]

Great choice of blitz kit. I will keep popping in as I progress on my blitz build.

[TobyC]

Good choice. Look forward to the end result

[despondman]

An hour and a quarter in and the cockpit is almost there.
I am using the pilot figure as I am going to do this on with landing gear up.

[jssel]

Total agreement on your build. And you are well prepared.

[despondman]

Cockpit now in place.



And fuselage very soon together. Its at this point I feel as though I am actually making some progress.



I am not an expert on these things but to me this model is really nicely designed, it certainly goes together exceedingly well.

[Old_Tonto]

It certainly looks the part. Going great guns.

[despondman]

This update has been delayed as I have been having problems with my router, anyway hope it holds out to do this post.

First the wings went together easily.



And were a perfect fit to the fuselage.



And at the end of hour three I had got to this point.

[mjatx]

Looking good!

[Old_Tonto]

Cracking along here. I am glad your wing fit was good. I had problems with mine when I did one but it is still a great kit. What colour scheme are you planning?

[despondman]

What colour scheme are you planning?

I'm just doing the box colour scheme OT - which I do like anyway.

All the model building is now done, life made a lot easier by doing landing gear up, ready to start painting.

[despondman]

Painting in progress.

[Old_Tonto]

It is a very nice scheme. Looking really fine.