My latest doodle...

I’ve never wanted to build a P-51, as there are so many out there and it’s just an “also did one” for me.  About the only one that I was remotely interested in doing is the Thompson Trophy racer, Beguine.  Maybe I’ll do that one someday since it’s totally different from the standard P-51 you see.  But in 55 years of modeling, I’ve never built a Mustang.

For some reason, I started thinking about doing a P-51 using the Cox foam wings that were given away back in the 70’s.  I’ve got a couple of sets on the shelf doing nothing.  Now, I’m not partial to the bubble canopy models.  I’m partial to the P-51A model.  So, last night I sat down and drew out a P-51A to use the foam wings.  




One of the things I do not like about the FW-190 plans that came with the wing cores is the way the wing root ribs are designed.  It seems too easy to glue them in slightly off from one another on each side making the wings twisted.  So I decided to do something a little differently.  Instead of a T-shaped stub spar, I’m doing a full length I-beam spar, sorta.  I’m doing a through-the fuselage cutout for the spar, and indexing dowels front and back to keep the root ribs aligned.





The Warrior Mark