I just got mine yesterday, I’m really astonished at the quality of this piece. I have last years Armas P-51 B/C and it’s really good but the Eduards is top notch, thank you for sharing
Great review, Thank you for sharing. I just ordered 4 Over trees kits 2-D's and 2 D-5's From Sprue Brothers. They are having a sale, they come up to around $9 each and I have a lot of Mustang decals to take care of them. Looking forwards to see if they release a 72nd P-51 B/C kit. Hope you have a great week, Cheers, Tony
A very nice and thorough review. When I build a dual combo kit I use a bright yellow hi lighter for my first scheme and pink for the second kit. This helps an old guy like me to not get them mixed up!
Just got to the bit about the decals - I actually work for a decal company (for MANY years!) and the varnish is critical! As a modeller myself, my aim is to make the varnish tight around the image/marking whilst giving enough coverage to keep the decal stable on application. I have produced decals which have been sent to Cartograf for printing and they always come back absolutely superb, always tight, crisp and accurate in colour (they do a very nice four colour process for nose art too, a different print process to the usual 'spot-colour' markings for lettering/numbers etc). This looks like one area where Eduard can definitely step up their game as everything else they do is of the highest standard. Their varnish looks very slip-shod, much too wide a margin around the image, could definitely do better!
I have always liked the P 51D and this kit looks outstanding, looks like the loft pile is going to expand again (I really need more spare time in my life, oh, and a LOT more spare cash!).
They're working on the p-40 in 1/48th so it wouldn't surprise me if we see the 1/72 one soon too. I'd love them to bring out the Zero and the Tempest in 1/72 too!
