P51 Photorealistic metal
#31

Ah....VH! After rereading this, I see it was U.S. Grants Mutang that had all of those rivets. That wasn't yours. So let me very humbly apologize, because yours is beautiful.
The Mustang has been in need of a better Aluminum finish forever. I'm so glad it's finally being fixed.
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#32

This ones for my own personal use

[Image: polished7.jpg]
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[Image: Raha_3.jpg]

Only took a couple of hours all up to put together, I recommend it to anyone to try
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#33

Now that is one beautiful skin Confusedhock:
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#34

Would you be willing to make a few for me? If you'll PM me I'll let you know what I was thinking of...
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#35

Amazing !!!!
May I had a comment : remove all rivets from the wings. They were puttied on the actual plane, except the machine guns panels and the underside large wing tanks panels, a detail few people knows Wink
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#36

Looks good!
I once did this silver B25, about three yrs back or so...

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It's not easy to do it very effective as it only works well in perfect mode at certain angles,
at least that's my experience. I have used reflections from photos as well but not to my
satisfaction since they're static and sit in the same place no matter how you roll and pitch.
Maybe I'm just not wizzard enough though... :mrgreen:
I should give it another try again, maybe.


Anyway yr skins look very good this way mister so keep it going. :cheers:
BTW, GRANT... you're good too, I like that skin, it has a fine metal feel to it!
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#37

UF_Shoki Wrote:Amazing !!!!
May I had a comment : remove all rivets from the wings. They were puttied on the actual plane, except the machine guns panels and the underside large wing tanks panels, a detail few people knows Wink

I dont know if that was aimed for me but I dont have any rivets on the wings, im aware of the fact they were Flushed Smile
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#38

You'r job looks fantastic !!!
I'm in a hurry to see it finished.

The wing was completely puttied, except the armament and fuel fillers' panels and on the underside the wing tank panels which retains even the riveting.
It was the case for B, C, D and K models (wonder about the H). I'm not sure for early version Mustang MkI, Ia and P-51, P-5A and A-36 Apache. That should be checked.
So indeed, you should also remove panel lines except those mentionned above.
It may looks a little bit "bizarre" but it will be 100% realistic.
PS : the paint used on wings was less shiny as the rest of the cell left in NMF. Wink

Also, if you want to "weather" a little bit your wings, you may take in account that the wings received a coat of Yellow Zinc Chromate primer before the steel shade paint.

A nice modelling article there : Hyperscale - Tony Bell's P-51C
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#39

Hey, Phas3e... Would you release a template of that? Could you please share your wealth a little...
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