Tamiya P-51D "Lou IV" 

Excellent work. Thank you for memorializing Col. Christian. I was his POW/MIA case manager in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The great grandson of Civil War Confederate Lieut. Gen. T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Christian was a 1939 West Point graduate. He was awarded the Silver Star for his leadership at Guadalcanal, and was promoted to colonel within 5 years of graduating from West Point. He was certainly destined to be a future key leader in the post-war formation of the U.S. Air Force. Lost August 12, 1944 over Arras, France, he was buried by the Nazis as an unknown because of the confusion with his names (the burial detail seems to have been confused, unable to determine if his name was "Thomas Christian" or "Christian Thomas") and the fact that he was an American pilot but wore British coveralls, boots, gloves, helmet, and goggles. He remains buried in a grave marked "unknown" in Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France, alongside seven Commonwealth casualties. A nous le souvenir, a eux l'immortalite.

I LOVE the commentary and history lesson while you work...GREAT IDEA

The history lesson makes this video so much more engaging and worthwhile to not skip through then other modellers on youtube

Beautiful work. I used to hugely enjoy aircraft modelling but at age 73 I have developed a tremor which makes it difficult to even open the box containing a model, so I have to content myself with watching real experts like you at work.

Hey, my favorite builder video A history lesson and a nice build. I got one word MORE.

Love the history you tell of each aircraft. Awesome job!

I bought the AMT F7F somewhere in about 1995. Although it is one of the 1/48 plane models I am most critical of (along with the Tamiya individual prop blade kits from then), it did have hollow exhausts that were quite impressively done by AMT. I finished this AMT F7F1 this past year. Iam now getting closer to finishing my Tamiya p51 D Chrome plated version after all these years also. I just built the Model Svit P51H, and did my first Alclad Chrome over gloss black. I am super impressed with that system. I am in disbelief of the reflectivity achieved. Model Svit P51H, a Quality Jewell Like Model Kit. Hard to build though, kind of like building a short run kit.

Commentary is great. Nice build, too. Thanks.

Enjoyed the video and comments as well. The bits of history and Eric Brown’s take on the Mustang vs Spitfire comparison I found interesting along with your explaining the techniques you employ in your build.

Outstanding model, even better history lesson. Keep it up!

Great vid. Great build. Love the format. Wouldn’t change a thing 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Well done!! I love the historical info that you share while you’re building. Really nice touch.

I really enjoy your commentary, the description of what you are doing, is very helpful, and the history of the aircraft is awesome! I hope you continue in future videos!!

History lesson is informative & tells us the living story of the model. Again a brilliant build.

Subscribed! Refreshing to hear background info on the piece presented. As an armchair historian and a modeller rediscovering the craft after many years I appreciate your research and obvious skill. Thank you sir.

Love the narration as you build. Good job!

Great video and really like all the background information. Thanks!!

You telling the story of the aircraft and commenting on tools, materials and techniques is way better than background music. Great video.

Not sick of hearing you talk, lovely build video/history lesson. Nice to hear about the Air Ministries influence on making a very good aircraft a great aircraft, well done and keep the great videos coming.

What a super build video. I like the bit of history at the beginning as well: nice and balanced. Excellent job! Obviously subscribed :-)

Fantastic build! Thanks for sharing.

Nice video. The Tamiya Mustang kits are still excellent after more than 20 years.

I have been so impressed with this video that I not only hit the subscribe button, I have called other fellow modelers to check this out. LOVE THE COMMENTARY DURING THE BUILD!

Beautiful build, great to see someone actually finished the plane the way it was in action and not in a blue color scheme, very nice, should be proud!!!!!

Fantastic video, man. Love the historical context, too. I'm keen to build one now!

Fantastic build and even better historical commentary

I too love your commentary and history lesson. I'm very impressed with your airbrush skills and comparison with other kits. Just subscribed because of this.

Great build! I did enjoy the music on the previous one. My coment about the propeller cuffs on the P-47 applies here also. One lesson picked form another modeller, the small unreachable seam on the rear door of the oil cooler can be covered with a small piece of acetate, it is impossible to sand that!

What wonderful model, and fair minded commentary on the relative comparisons between the Spit and the P51.

Never seen this channel before. Narrative is better than rap music, stories and facts about the subject enhances the building experience by all means..I liked it!

I love the way builder did these plumbed drop tanks.

Thank you, very informative and a beautiful build.

Outstanding video and build sir! It looks amazing!

Great concept. Build and story Thank you. Great job

beautiful build and some great tips shared thanks

Some of The Model Guy's builds are incredible! Plus, I enjoy the history lesson and the techniques used in the videos.

Beautiful work. Like the history lesson also.

Thank you! This a outstanding video!

Great build and narration

Seriously awesome video man! You just got yourself another subscriber. I really love your idea of giving a history lesson and just basically talking about the topic of the model whole you build it mixed in with tips. Definitely recommend you keep this format as not only is it awesome, it sort of separates your channel from the other modelling channels on RU-vid and gives yours a bit of a unique feel, in a very positive way I should add.

I liked your narration regarding the pilot training, Germany was running out of resources. Great job on that Mustang.

Fantastic video! great job

Thanks for the video!

Great format and build.

awesome build

This is superb. Great video

Best job I’ve seen yet!😎

Great with out Music. Great build and commentary . Thanks

I like the voice over commentary and additional information.

Amazing video. Loved the commentary. Subscribed.

Wonderful job!

I am impressed and I think your history talk about the plane makes it so much better and see how the model grow and see how you finish it. Awesome 👍 done and you have a new subscriber to your channel. Looking forward to your next project

I really enjoyed the video, it was interesting to see how you put the model together. The commentary was interesting and preferable to music. Great job 👍👍

Brilliant build enjoyed !

Nice model and great build!

Great format. Keep it up.

I really liked the commentary! One of the better videos I've seen! I would like to see you do the Ted Lines p51 "thunder Bird" probably the most unique 51's of the war! I can't remember the company but I know I've seen decals for it!

Great video, nice info about the plane itself, but of course, most of all GREAT BUILD!!

Outstanding video and presintation

Awesome build.

Loved the commentary it makes it easier, plus the history. Loved your work but not a fan of the music in previous vids, keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

great video thanks hope to see more

After that build I felt I had no choice, subscribed! 👍👌

Great vid, great model!

Awesome video. Thank you.

To be honest I like the videos they are not only interesting from a modelers aspect but they are also interesting because you give history lessons along with it that not many people know. I think you could add music in if you wanted to but keep it faint and in the background. I think it would feel some of the dead space but not draw to much attention away from the commentary. Keep doing what your doing, you do an amazing job!

I love the video.and the history lesson as well

I really enjoy watching your videos, because I love modle planes but I'm not good at assembling them as you are. So watching you is great and I wish I could do it the way that you do. You show that assembling modles is an art and I prove that it is not for everyone.

Great job giving us a history lesson while you build a very nice model. Would have been nice if my history rolled up in a sherman tank and said "This is what the fighting men of ww2 used to defeat the germans!"

Отличное видео! Хорошая работа!

Much prefer your commentary on the aircraft's history and your techniques versus music. Great build. Very talented. Thanks for posting!

Wonderful!

Very interesting ! I like your vids very much.

I've a couple of these in the stash, you've inspired me to dig one out.

The history talk was awesome!

Superb video.

She’s a beauty! Well done.

I think your sub rate will go up now just by dropping the music! Great job on the "Stang" such a highly overbuilt kit. But given the commentary and your weathering technique, this should turn out a gem. Kutgw.

Great Show! Beauty TMG.

Brilliant commentary and teaching..don’t need music. Well done.

Waaaw, just ... waaaaaw! Commentary is nice, no need for music, i can listen to whatever music whenever i like or even during commentary videos. I fly P-51 in DCS and it was an amazing plane. Roll rate was a bit slow compared to FW-190 and such, but what use is a Spitfire if u have to turn back after 40 minutes. :)

A very good build mate, I don't mind 'background' music as long as it's not too loud, I find your commentary excellent, well done.

Great commentary!

Great video, subbed and liked

Great nad simple job. Thanks :)

That is so cool!!

You're a very good modeler and you are knowledgeable about aircraft history. I know you are because I happen to know a lot about military aircraft. You know your stuff. 😉

Thanks a lot my friend for be friendly and help me with your tips . I appreciate. We need more guys like you THANKS ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

Very enjoyable build video tbh. Music or commentary is fine with me, just enjoyabke to watch the progress.

Love it!👍😍

Finally somebody has done a video on on P51D that translates between Amateur and Connoisseur build! Cheers this is sheer poetry in motion!

beautiful

bloody hell that’s is fantastic

Definitely enjoy the monolog....

Very good video

I love the history and I think it is better to hear you talk, maybe do this format from now on? Read some short history of the model ? I just bought the Airfix A01004A North American P-51D Mustang , but I do not own an airbrush, I paint my models with brushes using acrylic paints, its fine in small models, but I really wish I had an airbrush. I'm from Romania and scale modeling community is very small here, so the paints, models and everything else is very expensive. I'm into this hobby for 2 years and build 12 models so far, biggest is a 1/350 Arlight Burke class destroyer, 45 centimeters, all painted by brush. If you want to see how they turned out, let me know, I would love to hear some imput on my brush paint !

Great video and great commentary. Music sometimes is over donr. Thank you for sharing. Take care and happy modeling 😁

Great I enjoy it Verry much tnx

Enjoyed the history

Nice build.