1/144th Scale
Revell
P51B
Crown/Otaki
1/72nd SCALE
Airfix
P51D (original series 1 kit
Basic, no wheelwell detail, pilot sat on pegs inside the fuselage
P51B
See through wheel wells, rivets
P51D/K
First kit to supply a reasonable cockpit. Fuselage, if assembled as supplied would end up far too narrow. Needs around 1mm of widening, especially in front of the canopy. Includes Aeroproducts propeller applicable to Mustang MkIV's, but no louvres
P-51D (new kit)
Nice kit, some parts like the undercarriage legs and joystick are extremely fine and require great care when removing from the sprues, there are after market replacements for them.
Eduard
P51D (in many flavours)
Considered to be the ultimate P-51D in this scale. Many variants with the subtle differences between them catered for. As with most Eduard kits divots to indicate where the rivets are.
Revell
P51D
Original Kit, rivets and very basic. Shapes were very suspect, especially tail surfaces
P51B/ Mustang MkIII
New kit, Detailed enclosed wheel wells cockpit detail Why are these kits longer than the other two (Hasegawa and Academy)
Academy
P51A
Superb little kit
P51B/ P51C
nice kit, fairly good cockpit
P51D (original kit)
HMMM 14 cylinder Merlin fitted here if one counts the exhausts. Fair cockpit. Wings were thick and flat (no dihedral) but this is the only kit to have supplied the non-filleted tail surfaces.
P51D (New)
Wings still a bit on the flat and thick side. Good cockpit
Monogram
P51B
No wheel well detail, simple cockpit
Frog
P51A
No wheel well detail, simple cockpit. raised panel lines and slightly thick canopy
Condor
P51/P51A/Mustang Mk1
A-36 Apache
Italeri
P(F)51D
Shareing its wing with the P51A
P51A
Looks good but canopy has no framing on it, at least mine does not
Tamiya
P51D/F51D
Absolutely superb kit. Based on the 48th scale kit but is somewhat simplified in comparison. There are no dropped flaps for instance. Highly recommended. Includes the later Aeroproducts propeller applicable to post war (Korea) F51-D's. Canopy is the only potential problem area in this kit and will require careful assembly.
Heller
P51D
Typical Heller. Cockpit detail raised panel lines. Not up to today’s standards
Matchbox
P51D
Simple basic kit. enclosed wheel wells. Thin undercarriage legs plain wheels There are better kits today
Century
P-61D
Although the boxart is the original Hasegawa kits the plastic is the Matchbox kit.
Smer
P51B
Appears to be based on the Hasegawa kit. Bit rough
P51A Hi-tech
kit with photo-etched details and resin wheels
Hasegawa
P51D (original kit
Enclosed wheel wells and cockpit. Fine raised panel lines. Gave both the Dallas hood and standard canopy.
P51B
Scribed panel lines. fair cockpit boxed in and detailed wheel wells, but too shallow.
P51D
Scribed panel lines. fair cockpit boxed in and detailed wheel wells, but too shallow. Includes Aeroproducts propeller applicable to Mustang MkIV's, but no louvres
1/48th SCALE
Monogram
P51B
The first razor back released, raised panel lines, fair cockpit and very good wheel well detail. The depth of the wheel wells vs modern kits (especially Hasegawa) is visible
P51D
Cannot comment&
Revell
P51D
Cannot comment
Tamiya
P51B/ Mustang MkIII
Great looking kits. Well detailed for out of the box. Easy assembly
F51D/ P51D
Great looking kits which feature easy assembly. Tossup between this and the Hasegawa kit The Tamiya one possibly wins due to the separate flaps although the Hasegawa has finer detail. The design of the clear parts though makes assembly challenging. One needs to be careful and use specialist glues, especially for the windscreen as it does not have any lower frames.
Hasegawa
P51D / F51D (in many flavours)
Great looking kits. Tossup between this and the Tamiya kit I prefer the Hasegawa kit for its finer detail although the Tamiya one wins due to the separate flaps. Be aware that one version of the Hasegawa "special boxing" kits includes markings for the non-filleted tail. But the kit does not include the tail, you have to cut the fillet off and reshape the area, and then there is no mention of some minor panel line changes that needs to be done. The F51D includes white metal late Aeroproducts propeller blades suitable for Korean era aircraft.
Accurate Miniatures
P51/ P51A/ Mustang Mk1/ A-36 Apache/F6A
Accurate Miniatures set a new bar for kit standards when they released these kits. Well detailed easy build looks very good completed.
P51B/P51C
And then they dropped it with this one, sharing the wings with the original P51A release did not cut it. I do understand that this has been rectified and new versions (since the demise of the original AM) have correctly tooled wings.
Otaki/ARII (also released by Matchbox and Airfix
P51D
Don't remember much about this kit
1/32nd SCALE
Monogram
P51D
Cannot comment
Revell
P51B/ Mustang MkIII
Raised details throughout. Don't remember much of this kit any more
Hasegawa
P51D
Golden Oldie Raised panel lines Has stood the test of time extremely well
Dragon
P51D
New kid on the block. Cannot comment as yet.
1/24th SCALE
Monogram
Visible Mustang P51D
Airfix
P51D
Mixture of raised (rivets) ad scribed (panel lines) Very well detailed. Rubber tyres
P51K
Latest release from Airfix, includes new propeller and the louvres.
Bandai
P-51D
Well detailed impressive kit
Trumpeter
P51D
Kit has been slammed for shape issues, especially in the nose area.
