Well for the first time ever I decided to try painting something with spray cans and following the directions on the can. It came out beautiful. I was going to get my $178.00 Tru-Turn 5”spinner painted at an auto body shop; then I decided it was just ridiculous to spend another $100 on painting. So I went to Pep Boys and purchased a can of Krylon primer, white, black and clear paint. I sanded the spinner with 400 grit, primed it, taped off one side with low stick painter’s tape and painted it white. Taped off the other side and painted it black, then painted over the entire spinner with clear. It came out beautiful and only cost me about $12.

As you can see from the latest pictures I have also added two antennas - the rigid vertical antenna behind the canopy and the wire antenna that runs up to the vertical stabilizer. The fuselage sheeting behind the canopy is a good ¼” or more thick so it was very easy to CA in the antenna. I did a quick fix on the wire antenna. Later I am going to make it more scale and run it through the canopy and all the way down to the radio on the turtledeck behind the pilots seat. The stabilzer end is attached just as on the real P-51, with a small spring.

My final step is to add the gear doors.