Thing Two's 1/72 P-51D Mustang Part 3 - The Final Chapter

Here is the gripping conclusion to Thing Two's snap together Mustang. After having it sit on the TV stand for about a week, we (I) thought it looked a little too clean.

Here is the completed model, like it just rolled off the factory assembly line. A terrible, terrible factory assembly line.

Enough of that. Let's dirty it up!

I pulled out my Tamiya Weathering set and let him have at it with the soot pastel. Here he is adding the exhaust stains.

Adding some smoke streaks to the guns.

We used the silver artist pencil to add chipping. Random chipping in odd places? Whatever.

Completed soot effects.

Uniform silver chipping spots on the prop? Sure.

That's that. Here is a little recap about the kit itself.

Seam lines? Everywhere.
Paint job? Well it was $9.
Kit quality? I guess it looks like a Mustang.
Ease of build for a six year old? Somewhere between really good and great.

Thing Two says: "Thank you for reading my posts. When can I do another model?"

Thing Two's 1/72 P-51D Mustang Part 2

The ever exciting continuation of Thing Two's snap-together Mustang build.

We're going to attack the wings this time around. Get it? Attack wings.....hahaha. At least I found it funny.

Snipping the wings off the sprues. There seems to be a lot of snipping with this build. Well, when a model consists of just  snips and snaps, that's what you get.

Putting the wings together. I also glued these as you could have guessed.

I really don't know what this part is.

Assembling the fuel tanks.

Putting the fuel tanks under the wings....with some.....you guessed it, glue. They're still a bit wobbly because there really isn't much in the way of connecting tissue to glue.

You know what's coming.

It almost looks like an official plane now! Official enough for bi-plane and jet standards. Because bi-plane cockpits were open and jets don't have propellers, but I'm sure you would have figured that out.

That's it for this time. Apu says, "Please come again."

Thing Two's 1/72 P-51D Mustang Part 1

After the run-away success of the somewhat snap together Subaru, Thing Two was hankering for another model kit. I had my suspicions not about his ability to build the kit, but to be gentle with it as a model and not as a toy. For $9 and change, I thought I would give it a shot.

At the last model club meeting I picked up Revell's P-51D Mustang in 1/72 scale. I captured the build the best I could while helping along.

The kit was pre-painted and ready to cut off the sprues and assemble.

The box to the model in question.

The vast amount of directions, I believe there were more on the other side!

Cuttin' parts.

"Don't chop off his foot! That's alright, no one will see it anyway."

More snipping captions.

No more interesting things to narrate.

Woo! Alright, some assemblage. We first put the seat in and the rear wheel. I don't really trust snap together kits, so I hit it with some cement to fuse those parts together.

Putting the fuselage halves together.

Starting to look like a plane!

That's all we have for this go around. Hey man, we built this kit over a few days, so I'm going to break it up into a few posts. You can only get so far when Thing Two works on it for 15-25 minutes a pop. Until next time folks!