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Old 05-07-2012, 02:26 PM
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You are the man Dave (wow that sounded 80's)...Rich
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Old 05-07-2012, 05:21 PM
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Just an FYI regarding Pinup Girl...
the Vargas girl was added to the plane at a later date,
but I have no information as to whether it was painted on the right side.
Since it is a more complicated piece of artwork, there is a good chance
it was only painted once.

Obviously the image used on this model (and in the available profile artworks)
is a cut and paste of the Vargas pinup artwork.
The original noseart was probably not quite as well done
as most of the painters were good artists but not not Vargas caliber.

I would have liked to have seen a photo of the actual noseart to work from,
but in this case I am stuck with using cut and pasted Vargas artwork.

If anyone comes across any actual photos of the noseart please send them to me.

(Interesting sidenote: I painted this exact same pinup girl on the sides of a Bike tank a few years back. One of my favorites too!)
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Old 05-08-2012, 02:10 PM
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Pinup Girl is finished!
Working on the instruction pages now.
Then I just have to make up a cover and PDF package.
Then I can release the kit and start working on repaints.
For now, please enjoy some photos.













You will notice in the photos, that I added simple parts to create an open Radiator vent door.



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Dave, that is a fantastic looking Mustang!
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Looks gorgeous Dave!
To be technical that's the oil cooler door. There's a larger door further back that controls the air through the radiator. Check out the 12th and 13th photos here.
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okay...you know the little door that lets the hamster out when it gets tired?
Thats what it is.
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Any thoughts on adding a radiator door too?
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Any thoughts on adding a radiator door too?
no...but thanks for reminding me of something I forgot!

When I started this project, I thought of a few things I was going to try to add.
The cooling doors underneath were two of those things.
The small forward door was an easy addition, but the larger rear door
would interfere with the internal and external assembly of that area.
I didn't want to have to redesign the formers and skins so I dropped the idea.

But the original template did not have the lines in place for the doors in that area,
so I decided the very least I needed to do was add the panel lines for the two vent doors.

I decided to revisit the doors and came up with a simple way of adding that forward door.
And I got so wrapped up in adding that forward door, I forgot all about the rear door artwork!
So, I just put it in.

Now I'm thinking, maybe I can add a similar type of add-on part for the rear door. I'll have to do more study!
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okay, hows this?
I did a quick test last night...had to resize the parts...but the idea worked fine.

I have added parts for simulated open venting doors.
If you want to add the partially open doors, you need only cut two
slits in the fuselage, down the sides of the marked door location
and then fit the open door part in.

You can add one, either or both doors.

The rear door is bigger and opens more so the fuselage is still visible.
For this I have added a 2D part with a visible radiator.
Just glue it in place before fitting the open vent door.

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Nice looking Mustang Dave. This might be off subject but if I buy one of your planes to build is it possible to open up the parts in Photoshop and do some recoloring. I've been working on a paint design to make a Captain America styled Mustang. Since he flew one of the Red Skull's fighters and the flying wing in the movie I thought it would make a different display to make him a fighter plane. His helmet in the movie was basically a aviation helmet retooled. I found a 6 inch action figure of him on sale at Walmart yesterday and I have a friend that has a poster printer. I'd like to finish my design, layer it over your plane and get it blown up to scale on the poster printer.

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