P-51B Mustang Miss Pelt 1/33 scale

flpaperguy · Jan 21, 2024

The tail (on the left in the photo) consists of the skin and former L (see the green arrow) that mates with former K on the rear of the fuselage. The stabilizers (on the right) are made by simply folding them in half and edge gluing the sides and top (leave the bottom open). The yellow arrow indicates a small fold over.

Each stabilizer is slipped on the former. The inside edges of the stabilizers are aligned with the tear-dropped shaped guidelines (see yellow arrow) and glued to the fuselage.

Installing the tail fairings finishes the tail and stabilizers.

mijob · Jan 21, 2024

That looks beautifull

flpaperguy · Jan 27, 2024

The front landing gear is constructed in the usual manner. A completed landing gear is on the right. The subassemblies to build the other landing gear is on the left. Parts 53 and 56 were made by wrapping each around a piece of toothpick.

Each front landing gear door consist of 5 parts. Once constructed, like the assembly on the right, it is cut into two pieces along the white line indicated by the red arrow.

flpaperguy · Jan 27, 2024

The rear landing gear consists of 12 parts. The completed gear is located in the middle of the photo. The two rectangles, which are green on one side and gray on the other, are the doors for the rear landing gear.

Here is the landing gear and doors installed.

flpaperguy · Jan 31, 2024

The propellor hub consists of 4 segments and 2 formers. A tabbed joiner strip (mated to the back of the middle segment) is used to glue the segments together.

Here is the finished propellor assembly.

I cut the paper windows out of the canopy frame and replaced them with clear plastic. The paper and plastic were glued together using Beacon Zip Dry glue.