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To enhance the tyre tread details, Oilbrushers Dust was fi rst carefully applied around the The Oilbrusher Dust was gently worked into the tyre tread details with a brush moistened with
circumference of he tyre… white spirit leaving the oil pigment in the tread, imparting a worn look.

the correct angle when fi xed to the gear legs due to fouled the fi tment of the canopy in the open/slid back
the moulded in locating lugs however they do allow position. I had to trim the lower portion of the bracing
a little ‘wiggle room’ to get them seated perfectly. bar back and carefully sand away the inside of the
The open canopy section hit a small stumbling block lower canopy frame, all the while test-fi tting to ensure
when trying to fi t it in the shape of the bracing bar that it sat correctly. ■

FINAL VERDICT

I am really pleased to fi nally have a modern state of the art kit tooling fi nished in one of my favourite schemes to
adorn the famous P-51 Mustang: “Dooleybird”. The kit is one of the fi nest new moulds from Airfi x and although there are
a few niggles and idiosyncrasies as I hope to have highlighted, it is a superb kit and can be enjoyed by modellers
of all skills. It certainly looks every inch the thoroughbred Mustang sitting on the shelves of my display cabinet
amongst my other 1:48 scale Warbirds.

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