Finished the first of our three step polishing process to the entire aluminum plated body , now we can start setting up the panel lines and fastener details.
We first have to figure out the placement of the panel lines and between Buzz's concept drawing and some fullscale P-51 photos that I took at the Oxford airport yesterday, the masked lines only had to be move a few dozen times :-) but we got it figured out.
I took these close up photos of the panel lines, flush rivets and cowl fasteners of the fullscale Mustang. The Collings foundation was nice enough to let me take the photos of their Betty Jane.
As you can see the panels are tight and the flush rivets can only be seen when your close to the aircraft. The removable cowling fastener are larger and protrude about 1/64 of an inch above the surface.
