P-51D Mustang

I loved building this kit. The fit is pretty good, but there were a few gaps. The detail is superb. I'd build this kit all over again if I ever got it again, which I probably will. But I would've liked to have known that there is a probably 1/4 inch wide chunk of plastic missing on the right half of the fuselage just before the prop.

This was my first kit after returning to the hobby after 25+ years. I wanted something that wasn't too expensive or difficult to build and this kit fit the bill perfectly. There was some fit issue with the front canopy that needed fixing with putty and seams around the fuselage weren't perfect. This is an old tool kit and shows it's age. The gun bays were a nice touch and the decals went on without much issue. Details were a bit sparse, but then again it is a budget kit. I would buy this kit again.

I built this kit in 2005 as a part of a two aircraft set of Reno Racers planes, the other being the T-6 Texan another great re-issued kit. The Mustang is part of the history of WW2 so it should stand out as mine represents the ones first painted in camouflage olive drab though-out. The parts all fit together with no issues to speak and details were highlighted to some degree as the kit was aged being a re-issue at least one other time. As a dual kit set the instructions were somewhat limited in what would be best described as difficult for a beginning modeler. All things considered the aircraft kit stands with all others in quality from Monogram - Revell as one would expect.