The Mustang in the version the Royal Australian Air Force carried. The designation Mk.IV belonged to the late single-seat Mustangs with a bubble canopy, which Australia also built under license.
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The designation Mustang Mk.IV was used by the Commonwealth countries for the late single-seat Mustangs with a cut-down rear fuselage and a teardrop canopy – that is, for the machines that in American designation correspond to the P-51D and P-51K series. The Royal Australian Air Force received them at the close of the Second World War, and some of them were built in Australia itself, under license by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation.
The Australian Mustangs did not manage to take part in the great battles against Japan. All the longer, though, was the service they then put in: they flew with the occupation forces in Japan, and in 1950 the Australian No. 77 Squadron set out with them as one of the first Allied units to Korea. There they served mainly for attacks on ground targets, until jet Meteors took over from them. It is precisely the postwar and Korean finishes that are among the most colorful that can be put on a Mustang.
The Australian machines carried a roundel without a red center in the Pacific. The red disc in the middle would have been confused at a distance with the Japanese marking, and so in 1942 the Allies dropped the red from it and left only a blue circle with a white ring. Postwar machines kept this form, so look over the decal sheet before applying it and make sure that the variant you have chosen matches the period you are building.
The span of the subject was over eleven meters, so the finished model comes out at just under twenty-four centimeters. Two places decide the result. The first is the bubble canopy: it has to sit without gaps, otherwise the whole spine looks broken. The second is the radiator under the fuselage – its inlet and outlet flaps tend to be molded shut and it is worth separating them and leaving them slightly open. The landing gear legs of the Mustang are slender, so glue them on right at the end.
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