Subject: Re: Tamiya F-51D kit build article
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "RICK LORENZ" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:48:08 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  From: RICK LORENZ 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:04 PM
  Subject: Tamiya F-51D kit build article

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  Tamiya 1/48 F-51D

  12th FBS Korean War

  by Rick Lorenz
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     After seeing photos of the 12th Fighter Bomber Squadron's F-51  
  Mustangs in Korea, I was inspired to build one of the colorful shark  
  mouth 'stangs.  I discovered a few years ago that Tamiya's wonderful  
  1/48 Mustang was released as a 12th FBS F-51D.  However, it was not  
  marked as the full color, blue and yellow schemes I had seen.  Armed  
  with photos from International Air Power Review volume 6, and Dorr &  
  Thompson's Korean Air War book I set out to do my own decal option. 

     Tamiya's kit is well done and also well reviewed elsewhere.  I  
  kicked my build up a notch with Eduard's color cockpit photo etch set,  
  some minor scratch built bits, and two full sets of kit issued decals;  
  the extra copy courtesy of another helpful modeler.  With these, I was  
  able to piece together the buzz numbers on the fuselage and the  
  serials on the tail.  The US Air Force decals came from the spares  
  box.  The numbers "6" are actually "9"'s turned upside down, and the  
  "8" is made up of two "3"'s turned onto each other.  Stuff like that.   
  The blue wingtips are Testors #1111 lightened with white, and the  
  yellow is Model Master Insignia yellow.  This seems to be a good match  
  with color photos of 12th FBS F-51's.  The one photo of 648 also shows  
  the uncuffed prop, so I used the one from the kit.  The fuse retaining  
  wire for the rocket noses are short sections of 2 pound monofilament  
  fishing line painted copper.  The exhausts and gun ports are drilled  
  out.  The exhaust residue and tire dust is pastel chalks.  I used a  
  dark gray sludge wash in the panel lines and rivets.  The base is  
  Eduard's PSP painted with various shades of Alclad II and weathered  
  with sludge wash and pastels.

     This is one of those builds that was going to go all the way, but  
  in the end I made some executive decisions and shortened my intentions  
  a bit.  I wish I had done more.  Hope you enjoy what you see!

     Rick Lorenz (Spruemeister)

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