Testors P 51 Mustang, how to disassemble?

Wow Kari, took a lot of 35% N to wash that one down.

And rgb, mines a wall hangar, resides next to big and little brothers. Didn't build either, flea market finds.



I didn't attempt to fly the redo either, never fuel proofed it and I'm sure it would never stand up to it. Are you going to fly yours? They fly less better than their Cox cousins which is saying a lot.

Rsv as a kid of the 1960's I had one of these P-51's, a Cox PT -19, a Wen-Mac Peashooter, a Curtiss Helldiver ( rare find these days) and a Cox Corsair, found a Corsair on ebay a few weeks back, original I crashed and destroyed on it's first flight when one of the older kids in the neighborhood put his hand in front of my face, never flew again, PT-19, flown countless times, P-51 flew several times and the Peashooter a few flights too. Some years back I sold my Helldiver for a ridiculously high sum on Ebay and have regretted it ever since.

Anyways, the intent is to fly the P-51 and Corsair a few times, clean them up and put them on the shelf in my toy room along with various other gas vehicle like the Hiller Flying Platform, tether cars and a few other things

The "older kid", I'm afraid I would have to had words with him.

The Wen-Mac Peashooter and Curtiss Helldiver, two that I would have loved to own.

I keep my collections in display cases, displayed too many times here I'm afraid.

Good luck in finding the Helldiver.

Seen as the original finish was not done well and most have peeled makes me understand why mine was painted with who-knows-what! But I put mine in a bag of brake fluid and teh paint came off. Mostly yellow now with plans to actually try flying it. Then after that clean up well and paint hopefully half as nice as Bobs!

If you want the shiny , chrome look again, there is all sorts of "chrome" paint out there now that might work pretty well. It would not be fuel proof, or at least as fuel proof as the original finish was!!
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee

rsv1cox wrote:Mine looked like yours when I got it. Fuel was hard on these.



Yes, remove that screw, it takes some careful maneuvering to separate the two half's, so be careful. It does snap together.  

I also had to build a tail skid for it.  

WELCOME TO THE FORUM!

Amazing, while pressure washing the garage floor the original tail wheel assembly showed up.

tail wheel!

Outstanding find rsv! I pulled my P51 off of the shelf over the weekend to show a grandchild and the tailwheel just barely caught the edge of a pinball machine and went flying across the room, luckily, he saw where it landed tho!