Crazy Mustangs gallery, step zero to 1

[Tophe]

 Before writing a book about what-if Mustangs (free on the Web, see http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,4461.0.html ), I planned (in 1996?) to make several 1/72 plastic/resin ones. I have found the kits again, there are 9 of them:
- 1 FTB Unicraft
- 1 P-51A Revell?
- 1 P-51D Matchbox
- 1 P-51B Malcolm Hood Hasegawa
- 2 P-51B Airfix
- 3 P-82 Monogram
I think my first project was using the P-82 links to join P-51s into what-if Twin-Mustangs:
1) port FTB, starboard P-51B
2) port P-51A, starboard P-51B malcolm Hood
3) port P-51D, starboard P-51B

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But I was not sure at all, and I considered also a half P-82 with the P-51D…
I will check the kits content, some buildings had started (like a push-pull P-82?) before cancelation, for 14 years. I will have to invent all again, from what is still available. Moreover, my standards have decreased a lot, now I accept joining myself airplanes, and that changes all, providing P-82s to butcher (1 may be port-thinned). Also, I have not room enough for those spans and by models will have no external wings (nor undercarriage, nor engines nor propellers…). [There was a warning in the topic’s title: “crazy”]…

[PR19_Kit]

Tophe,

Make them into naval P-82s (or P-82/P-51s) then you can model the wings folded! 

[Tophe]

If I were creating scale airplanes, you would be right, Kit, but... I am making pleasant desk-objects that will never fly, and I love the Mustang profiles too much to hide them with folded wings. Sorry.

[Tophe]

I have found the kits again, there are 9 of them:

Wrong: 12 in 8 boxes, I found a total of 4 Matchbox P-51Ds...

I will check the kits content, some buildings had started (like a push-pull P-82?) before cancelation, for 14 years. I will have to invent all again, from what is still available. Moreover, my standards have decreased a lot, now I accept joining myself airplanes, and that changes all, providing P-82s to butcher (1 may be port-thinned). Also, I have not room enough for those spans and by models will have no external wings (nor undercarriage, nor engines nor propellers…). [There was a warning in the topic’s title: “crazy”]…

Uuh... I found, well advanced, 2 P-51Ds, one normal with propeller blades and one deeply streamlined. This couple may well create the first asymmetric Twin-Mustang of this gallery: a single-engined one... (with "radar" nose on the other fuselage)

[CAO 700]

Interesting!

[Brian da Basher]

Mustangs are excellent for whiffing, and I can't wait to see what you do with yours, mon ami!
 
Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

Slowly going on...

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Here is the project I try to build (asymmetric single-engined twin-fuselage half-streamlined P-51Dd, simplified as P51Dd model):

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The P51Dd Half-Twin-Mustang (object, not exactly "airplane") is finished...

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Here is the planned project as a whole (if I don't change for twin-planes P-51+XP-55 and P-51+J.21):