I might have just got lucky on the nose art, I'm very happy, look at the picture! Could be two batches at Tower, just the luck of the forklift driver. The potential this plane has is really something, it's not a total scale bird but it's one heck of a weekend flyer for sure.
I have always used air on my retracts, properly set up they hold air forever. I have lots of experience now after doing 2 F-18's with about 10 air cylinders per jet! This P-51 is a piece of cake!
I'm not going to do a whole lot to this one as far as detailing, I am going to redo the cockpit, not happy with that.
I'll post pictures of my gear as I get it installed.