1/48 Tamiya P-51's

Gallery Article by Charles 'Chazmanis' Adams

This is my first article on ARC.  Instead of the usual building one model at a time projects, I decided to do a series of dual build projects. Both of these kits are Tamiya 1/48. I used the Verlinden cockpit set (Because I just had to have that correct cockpit floor!) They were NOT easy to fit. Paints are Gunze Acrylic, painted with an Iwata Eclipse. ETO bands are painted on also.

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Decals are Aeromaster. I found the white cross "kill markings" for John Godfrey's plane on an Aeromaster sheet for Spitfire Mk IX's. Don Gentile and John Godfrey were wingmen with the 4th Fighter group. They had the checkerboard pattern  painted on their planes to more easily recognize each other during combat. Gentile was credited by being the first pilot to break Eddie Rickenbacker WWI record of 26 planes destroyed.