Big Beautiful Doll Rebuild
This bike is Classic Victory.
Big beautiful doll rebuild. Big Beautiful Doll EZ Z 463221. John Landers P-51 while with the 357th Fighter Group. The resultant aircraft went to the UK.
SwI have a FMS P-51D Big Beautiful Doll V7 1450mm. Their favorites are Petie and Big Beautiful Doll. With both German and Japanese kill markers.
As was the case with my previous P-51 builds I was inspired by my Uncle Hank Rudolph recently deceased who was a P-51 pilot ace in Europe with the 354th FG. Im finding different photos with variations of the colors on the tail and under the wing tips. In 2001 it adopted the Big Beautiful Doll paint scheme and was an airshow favorite until in 2011 and now registered as D-FBBD it was lost in a mid-air collision with a Douglas A-1.
I will compare a lot to the FMS as I have two of them and it is a. The unfortunate loss of surely the most superbly painted Mustang Big Beautiful Doll. - Later flew as 472218WZ-1Big Beautiful Doll.
This 357th FG P-51 has been very obscure for quite a while. Thanks john Taylor Mustang Brotherhood 55. I started off that way about a few things that were driving me nuts about my first Tamiya P-51 Big Beautiful Doll and before I new it I was knee deep in a complete re-paint and rebuild.
To N334FS Jan 7 2000. Both good looking liveries. Ray and his associates of the day decided to use Big Beautiful Dolls airframe and that of a second P-51D an ex-170th Fighter Squadron machine that saw service in the Korean War and latterly with the Philippines Air Force to rebuild a new.
