My new profile project is James Howard’s P-51B ‘Ding Hao’. As my existing P-51B profile template is about 20 years old, I am starting from scratch and creating a new scale drawing and profile template for the project. As aways, the first step is gathering the research materials for the scale drawing. In this case, engineering drawings for the ‘B’ are fairly easy to obtain, so these are combined with measurements taken off of actual aircraft and ‘walkaround’ photos taken over the years. My new scale drawing is shown above, and a sampling of the engineering drawings I used to create it are in the gallery below.
