OT: For the scale modelers out there ...
 

It's finally here!!! ... this one has been LOOOOONG overdue :)

http://www.hlj.com/product/TAM60322

That's not a bad price from Tamiya either.

I still have a 1/48th scale Tamiya Swordfish on the shelf that was close to that price when released ten years ago.

Not that I've done any modelling for a while, too busy flight simming!

I might do a bit now though, while we're waiting for various bits of CoD to be fixed!;)

Should be good to see if the perennial debate on the nose profile gets up with this one :)

a lot of rivet marks in the first 1/3rd of the wing leading edge !

Interesting to note the welcome return of the 'in flight' stand!

One of the things that annoys me about UK aircraft modelling is that they're all modelled on the ground.

If you tried to enter a competition with a model on a stand, you'd get laughed at.

One of those stupid unwritten rules.

Bloody IPMS! :)

Just ordered it, now I'm going to have to hunt through Amazon. Can anyone recommend a good book for photo references? This is my first P-51 ;)

MysticPuma is a good P-51 source. If you PM him, I'm sure he'll point you in the right direction.:)

Yeah I was a member of IPMS for a while. Every Tuesday night would turn up to the meetings and we'd discuss everything under the sun about what’s happening in the modelling world except on how to build great looking models.

Don't get me wrong they’re a great bunch of guys and wealth of info, but the meetings were too much about the decline of the brick's and mortar retailers, competition rules and how much someone had spent on after market detail kits. Very little was actually about building techniques and ideas.

To me it is an elitist club.

Bloody hell, that was fast. There was a very big gap between the Zero and the Spit. I did the Zero, the Spit is in progress (stalled actually). Think I'll give the Mustang a miss, but a 109 or 190 will be snapped up so fast they'll smoke.

+1, although one P-51 would look good along with the many 109's on the table...

My lack of patience and steady hands don't make me much of a model builder, but I sure would like scale ww2 planes to toy around with. Do you know if there's any manufacturer that sells high detail planes as they do cars for example with a metal finish etc.

My son once got a plastic P-38 with three propellers which made me want to sue the toy company. :)