JK retro: Mustangs

[jankees]

I've always loved the P-51 Mustang, and in fact, the very first repaint I ever did was a Mustang. I'd just started playing around with FS9 when we moved house, and in the move I came across an old Airfix model, of the 1/24 scale Mustang. I thought that it would be cool to have that in the sim, and so I got to work. Took me a while to figure out how it was done, but this was the end result:

 

Ridge1 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

my very first repaint, for the Shockwave (later A2A) WWII Fighters P-51D MUstang.

 

Over time, I've painted many other Mustangs, and for many different models too, so here's a bit of an overview:

For Warwick Carters P-51d for FS9:

3976 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

For the Shockwave Wings of Power P-51D, also for FS9:

12109 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

still in FS9, a few more for the WWII Fighters version:

2938 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

For FSX, we got the Warbirdsim P-51B:

patty167 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and as you can see, I started weathering my paints more and more

jk7504 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and warbirdsim also brought us the P-51D:

2019-12-16_23-19-3-738 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and I revisited an old friend:

jk8684 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and A2A came with the Wings of Power 3 version of their P-51D, and I did a ton of paints for that too:

OS-H-05 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk6159 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

more in the reply..

[jankees]

Both the WBS and A2A version worked fine in P3D, but MFS brought is new models, like the Reno air Races P-51A:

lynn001 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk10179 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and the Aeroplane Heaven P-51D:

jk3059 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

hgyu by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

so there you have it, a small overview of my P-51 paint activities. Mustangs are by far the most numerous among my repaint activities, I've calculated I've done about 465 differnent ones for all models combined, I must be mad...

 

ok, a few more pics then:

sweet3 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk9822 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk3342 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

Final one of the Ridge Runner, to close the loop:

jk5849 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

How about you? Fond of Mustangs as well? Feel free to show your favorites!

[BillD22]

Wow! What an awesome collection. This could make the Guinness Book of Records for most FS repaints of a classic bird!!! Brilliant. :cool::cool::cool::cool:

[Rupert]

Wow! What an awesome collection. This could make the Guinness Book of Records for most FS repaints of a classic bird!!! Brilliant. :cool::cool::cool::cool:

 

I agree!! And yes JK, you truly picked a magic airplane.

 

Having said that, the most magic GA plane I ever flew was a pressurized V-Tailed Beech Bonanza back in the '60's. If you have any shots of them in your archives I'd sure love to seem them!!

 

Michael

[NMLW]

Quite a collection all beautiful paints. 465, now that's a lot of Mustang paints! :cool: :cool: :)

[peer01]

Fantastic collection JK! :cool::cool::cool: