North American P-51 Mustang fighter
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Tamiya 1/48 P-51B from early 2013
Aires cockpit, Squadron canopy, CAM decals, some improvements on several details with plastic sheet, copper wires, steel needles and photo etched items from Eduard. Painted with Humbrol, Model Master and Polly Scale. And if I remember well [...]
1:32 Zoukei-Mura P-51D Mustang
This was my first build after a 25 year break from models so I figured start with the Cadillac of war birds. I picked the Zoukei-Mura over the Tamiya kit based purely on price. And I must say, this is a really nice kit. If you want to [...]
P-51K Mustang Mk.IVa, 3 Squadron RAAF, Italy, 1944/45.
This was originally intended to be the Tamiya 1/32 kit, but I got distracted when I just opened it's 1/48 cousin & at the same time came across a wealth of reference material for this squadron on the internet. Pretty much [...]
Airfirx 1/48 Checkertail Clan P-51D
The 325th Fighter Group arrived in North Africa in January 1943, when they flew their P-40Fs off USS Ranger. The group participated in some of the final fighting in Tunisia, then took part in the invasion of Sicily and moved to Italy [...]
Tamiya 1/48th N. American F-51D Mustang Korean War 1950
It's mid July 1950, it has been about a month since the war started when the N. Koreans crossed the 38th parallel invading S. Korea. Cpt James Kerley stands next to his F-51 ready to fly his first mission. One of 145 Mustangs rushed to [...]
James H. Howard's "Ding Hao!" – Tamiya P-51B
The Tamiya kit, OOB, with Aeromaster decals.
James H. Howard and “Ding Hao!”:
Born in China, the son of Methodist missionaries, James H. Howard joined the U.S. Navy in 1938. After graduating from flight school at Pensacola, Ensign [...]
A Monogram P-51D
Proof you don't have to have the latest kit to get a nice model, if you're willing to put in the work. About 15 years ago, a friend gave me a bunch of old kits that he figured were good for spare parts. Among them was this kit, which I [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 North American P-51D Mustang
This is a review of the new (2017) Airfix model kit of the ever popular P-51D Mustang in 1/48 scale. Box number is A05131. I suspect we don´t need to waste any time and space on the P-51 history so we go straight to the review.
The kit is [...]
