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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #225 on: July 27, 2016, 04:27:04 PM »
Fascinating --- DeviantArt gallery is a trove of kitbashing inspiration !

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #226 on: July 27, 2016, 04:33:51 PM »
Oh my, yes.  Love the stallion :-*

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #227 on: July 27, 2016, 08:05:52 PM »
That A-51 is freakin' AWESOME 8) 8) 8) 8) Gotta build one!! How about a 1/72 scale Stallion group build :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #228 on: July 27, 2016, 07:54:35 PM »
Oh my, yes.  Love the stallion :-*

Off to the stash, got to see what the center pod can be built from...
Some early jet?

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #229 on: July 28, 2016, 05:56:16 AM »
I'm totally building that. I did a Monogram 1/72 F-82 OOB that's begging to be rebuilt! Definitely moving the mains.
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #230 on: July 28, 2016, 08:41:39 AM »
I think if I were to build that A-51, I would delete the radiator ducts from where they are, and put a single bigger one in the center pod with a larger variable duct exit for more thrust  -----    >:D

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #231 on: July 28, 2016, 09:34:28 AM »
...thus making a more logical space for the mains! Genius! I was wondering what to do with those pesky rads.
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #232 on: July 28, 2016, 06:57:49 PM »
The main gear would be better between the two wing spars, like how I did my TwinSabre

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #233 on: July 28, 2016, 11:06:12 PM »
If you want to keep the doghouse radiators, they get in the way of doing that. This thing needs more separation between the fuselages than a P-82, so there's probably room for regular P-51 landing gear on the  wing and central pod...

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #234 on: July 29, 2016, 10:22:50 AM »
If you don't want to do the swept vertical tails with high tailplane, just take a F-82 and splice a P-51H fuselage, modified as desired, into the center of the wing and splice the horizontal tail as needed to extend it.  For one big radiator/oil cooler set up, use one from a 1/48-scale kit (assuming you are working in 1/72 for the base kits).  For a tricycle-geared aircraft, the main gear as depicted is definitely too far forward unless you have a very heavy nose armament fitted to balance those long rear fuselages; I'd be tempted to go with leading edge radiators and oil coolers and move the main gear aft.

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #235 on: July 29, 2016, 05:06:34 PM »
F7F Tigercat nose with P-51 or F-82 glazing, rear of the center pod from some engine pod?

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #236 on: July 29, 2016, 09:36:53 PM »
To me the center pod reminds me of an F-80 ----  as a bonus you'd have a nose gear already in place ---

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #237 on: August 04, 2016, 05:16:14 AM »
Good thinking, kit! I like it. I wouldn't be doing a high tail.
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #239 on: September 19, 2016, 09:50:42 PM »
 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #240 on: September 20, 2016, 12:49:52 PM »
 Agreed!! Awesome!! :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #241 on: December 04, 2016, 04:54:38 AM »
Subtle whiff:  what about a P-51D (or latter variant) with twin 20mm cannon in each wing?  I'm not talking about the long barrelled versions though but rather the short barrelled versions as seen in the Hawker Tempest etc.  Maybe as an Australian derivative?
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #242 on: December 04, 2016, 05:08:49 AM »
Subtle whiff:  what about a P-51D (or latter variant) with twin 20mm canon in each wing?  I'm not talking about the long barrelled versions though but rather the short barrelled versions as seen in the Hawker Tempest etc.  Maybe as an Australian derivative?

I like that idea Greg, but I still think they would stick out a bit, like an MB5.  Thinking about it though, the MB5 did have the short barreled 20mm's, but the wing is much bigger than a P-51D's, it's more the size of an F-82 outer wing --- Actually it's almost a dead ringer for a Hellcat wing, that's from the fold hinge point to the wing-tip

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #243 on: December 04, 2016, 11:04:32 AM »
Odd thought - Luftwaffe re-engines a captured P-51B or P-51D (kinds like the aesthetics of the "B" better) with a DB601 or DB605, much like they did that Spitfire V, for comparison purposes.
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #244 on: December 04, 2016, 11:15:35 AM »
Subtle whiff:  what about a P-51D (or latter variant) with twin 20mm cannon in each wing?  I'm not talking about the long barrelled versions though but rather the short barrelled versions as seen in the Hawker Tempest etc.  Maybe as an Australian derivative?

Brilliant and believable as the Hispano cannon was produced in Australia for the Boomerang while the .50cal HMG was imported.

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #245 on: February 27, 2017, 11:35:58 AM »
subtle whif:  P-51B/C with the louvered lower cowling of a Mustang IV and in SEAC markings.

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #246 on: February 27, 2017, 05:33:35 PM »
A-36 with Merlin and 20mm cannon, wait a minute I'm sure I've suggested this before.

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #247 on: March 02, 2017, 03:35:34 AM »
Don't know if anyone has thought of this earlier in this thread but how about North American making a concept aircraft for the Twin Mustang based on two P-51a's. Standard length fuselage but all the rest much the same.
Just to see how the idea would work out.
Lessons learned would lead to the F-82.

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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #248 on: March 18, 2017, 08:09:04 AM »
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Re: P-51 Mustang and Derivates Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #249 on: March 19, 2017, 08:25:44 AM »
Awesome little vid GTX, I approve 8)
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