Tribute to WW2 P51 Mustang

[1_sikEvo]

how about some .50 cal MGs to blast slow drivers off the road ?

 

[JetBrett]

Tillamook Air Museum will on occasion allow the local Mustang club to be photographed with their P51D Mustang.

Very cool When they do it again, can you post a notice? That would definately be worth the trip!

 

[P_T_Bishop]

That is an awesome tribute...i think it looks great and it would be the first of it's kind...plus the ricers couldnt copy it, because they dont have the right cars...it looks good. i'd like to see something like that done

 

[lamrith]

Jordan. look at the back of your car, the side view shot you gave us....

Look at the diagonal line the brake lights make.... continue that line up and down in blakc.. that will give you the maked rudder look with the red strip. I though I saw a few plane photos that had a dual color tail like that...

 

[xj220]

I think for the checkered nose, it'd look better black and yellow and if it was the whole nose (up until the front of the wheel well).

 

[909]

Do the black and white D-day stripes!

 

[jordanvraptor]

No, I think i'm going to pass on the checkered nose and D-Day stripes. The checkers make it look like a taxi and the D Day stripes make it specific to the European theater which would make the ricer kill flags look out of place.

 

[jordanvraptor]

Partially complete, just need to have the hood painted.

 

[WaterPog]

that's really sharp jordan.

 

[SVTdriver]

It looks nice. But my gut tells me it needs something more. To really show what you were trying to show.

 

[Rogue Cobra]

I have to agree with SVTdriver. I think it needs more to tell the story.

Couple of ideas:

Nose Art - Name and a woman.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/p51pics/noseart/images4/04.jpg

On the door panels near the windows need Pilot name and Crew Chief name.

I am not sure about this one, but maybe the top should look like a canopy.

Oh Yeah, you need some of these for shows:
http://www.aeroconsystems.com/misc/RBF1b.jpg

Rogue Cobra

 

[Darkness]

Pimpin

 

[jordanvraptor]

I appreciate all the responses and I do take them to heart. The update pic was taken just after I was completed with the main decals. I have added some Japanese kill flags but need to make some German cross kill flags. I will get the hood painted in a couple weeks. I plan to add "Tribute to Valor" on the back of the spoiler. I will probably add my name to the drivers door and as a joke may put "Future Wife's Name Here" on the passenger door..... I am also thinking of a snakes mouth custom paint job for the lower bumper/fog light area.

Oh, I'm not checkering the nose, looks too much like a taxicab..... The name is in Chrome lettering and says "TERMINATRIX" in keeping with a female persona of an aircraft and blending that with Terminator. I'm might paint the fuel tank cover red since they are often painted red on the aircraft I have seen. I don't want to copy one specific aircraft, just blend old with new. I may add some female body art later on. Wondering about the copyright issues if I used a pic of the terminatrix from T3.......

 

[SVTdriver]

In respones to the copywrite issue. I don't think it would be a problem as long as you are not selling them.

 

[JetBrett]

Very cool! Painting the hood will help pull it together. Not sure about a snakes mouth on the lower fender. I'm kinda of a plane nut, and I can't recall seeing any of these on any P51's. If I understand what you're thinking, they were common on P40's in the China/Burma theatre and latter with 14th (I think) airforce who took over for them.

Maybe some small nose art - for scale - low and in front of the front wheels. Not much more though, or you'd be overdoing it. As it is, I think it looks great!

 

[jordanvraptor]

Driver's side pic.

How about this for the nose art, I'd put it below Terminatrix behind the headlight. I'd delete the lettering of course.

 

[SVTdriver]

Not bad. But could you find a whole body shot. As I think that was on most of the airplanes.

 

[jordanvraptor]

A whole body shot would be hard to do unless I laid it down above Terminatrix on top of the fender. Then its not really nose art but cowling art........

 

[xj220]

I don't know many, I still think you need a checker pattern. Large black and yellow squars covering just the nose.

 

[jordanvraptor]

Thread got hijacked sorry to all