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Jamesy
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 Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 08:39 am Post subject: Airfix Mustang Conundrum |
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I opened the Airfix US Heritage Flight gift set the other day (F-15E and P-51D/A50041) and was surprised when i saw the Mustang. I remember building an Airfix P-51 a while ago but it was not like this one. This has recessed panel lines and moulded sidewall detail, as well as fairly good cockpit detail. The intake is not how I would expect and airfix kit to be, having a separate scoop and lip. All this makes me think it might be an Italeri kit or something? Then again, the pilot is typical late 60's/70's Airfix fare. Which kit is this????  
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 08:46 am Post subject: |
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Here's the sprue shots of my (old) build 
Are they the same 
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 08:53 am Post subject: |
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Airfix did a new tool P-51D some time in the seventies to replace the earlier kit and it is as you describe with fairly complete cockpit and engraved panel lines. It has a couple of glitches, notably the hood transparency is too wide for the fuselage and the nose contours are a bit out.
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 09:02 am Post subject: |
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Yes Ratch, it looked just like that! I never realised that Airfix were using recessed panel lines in the seventies. It that the same kit that featured decals for John C. Meyer's plane then?
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 09:07 am Post subject: |
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| Jamesy wrote: | | It that the same kit that featured decals for John C. Meyer's plane then? |
Can't say I used AM decals on mine 
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| Jamesy wrote: | | It that the same kit that featured decals for John C. Meyer's plane then? |
That was one of the options, the other is for Preddy's 'Cripes a mighty'.
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| peebeep wrote: | | Jamesy wrote: | | It that the same kit that featured decals for John C. Meyer's plane then? |
That was one of the options, the other is for Preddy's 'Cripes a mighty'.
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No, the original release had Cripes a mighty and an RAAF option. "This is it" - I think that was John C. Meyer's - was in the 24th kit, together with McKennon's Ridge Runner.
Airfix used recessed panel lines on a handful or less kits in the 70s (except for the biggies) , the other one I can remember is the Do 17. I'd speculate that the 2nd tool D is based on the research for the Superkit as is that for all of the late Stukas etc. While the D's detail is not bad, it is a bit inconsistent and nowhere near as sharp as that in Tamiya's Minijets, or the 50s Revell F-89 for that matter. Perhaps that's why so few kits were done like that, either very expensive or not satisfactory.
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| tempestfan wrote: | | No, the original release had Cripes a mighty and an RAAF option. "This is it" - I think that was John C. Meyer's - was in the 24th kit, together with McKennon's Ridge Runner. |
I was thinking of the 1/72 Hasegawa kit that featured Meyer's machine.
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The decal options provided in my kit were for F16 Wing, Swedish Air Force, Uppsala, 1945 and for No. 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron, RAF Brindisi, Italy, June 1945 
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That's the early 90s "white box" release, kit number 2098 or something. Before that, the kit also featured in the Aces series.
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dancho
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The Airfix F-4 Phantom has recessed panel lines...
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jul 2009 04:07 am Post subject: |
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The engraving on the Airfix F-4 was reserved for flaps and aerilons. The rest of the panel lines were raised.
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jul 2009 07:21 am Post subject: |
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| dancho wrote: | | The Airfix F-4 Phantom has recessed panel lines... |
Not that I know of, besides the control outlines that Steven mentioned (which applies to most other kits, incidentally - but they are not really panel lines). OK, to be complete, a number of the 50s kits had recessed "panel lines" like the original version of the Albatros (before being reworked), the Gladiator and possibly BT-K and 109F, too.
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jul 2009 08:20 am Post subject: |
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| tempestfan wrote: | | Before that, the kit also featured in the Aces series. |
Ah, I think that was the one that featured Petie 2nd on the decal sheet.
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jul 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| peebeep wrote: | | tempestfan wrote: | | Before that, the kit also featured in the Aces series. |
Ah, I think that was the one that featured Petie 2nd on the decal sheet.
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Yes - and "This is it" is Joe Mason, not John Meyer.
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