Can I Do Better?! Revell P-51D Mustang in 1/72 Scale - Plastic Model Kit Build & Review

The Revell P-51D Mustang (04148) plastic model kit in 1/72 scale is one of the cheaper kits in the range - but there is a good reason for that! Join me on the workbench for this special milestone video as I celebrate the channel reaching the 25K Subscriber mark by rebuilding the first ever kit to be featured in a build video on the channel!

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[pandaphil]

Revell really needs to start using a Vintage Classics type label on these things. But you did a fine job with whats there.

[diggilad]

Revell has some good kits and some bad ones. I remember you saying this wasn't the best kit a few years ago.

[Ducknuck]

I think you did better on round 2 though I would still say never throw out the original as a reminder. One thing I learned with miniature painting is you always have a nagging suspicion that you are not getting better or skills are not improving so its nice to go back and take one of your first projects and then compare it to your newest. You usually end up blown away at the difference between the two.

[fermiticus]

"There's a time and a place for them"....yup...the time was 60 years ago, and the place is in the landfill!!!
So glad I never spent any money on this kit!
As a HUGE Mustang fan, I have built many. Airfix is #1 in 1/72...and you can get 3 or 4 of them for the price of the Tamiya P-51(#2).
At Hobby Lobby, when they're running 40% off model kit...they're about $5 a pop! Can't afford not to walk out with 4 or 5 of em!!!

My recommendations for those wanting P-51D's...Airfix(the only one that has separate flaps, to pose down), Tamiya, and even the Heller (if memory serves me right) kit is decent.
Everything else....don't even bother!
For P-51B/C....Academy's is very nice, but you have to do a little surgery if you want the flaps down. Drawback is...Academy decals suck!

[jaboy__kaz]

Loved the intro should do this more often

[SullysScaleModels]

Clear difference and growth! Brilliant video and congrats my dude

[jeremyalam]

Not bad for a quick build. The finish on the newer build is generally better than for the previous. For the seams at the wing roots, stretched sprue is a good and quick option. Cut approximately to size, insert and fix with extra thin cement. If you want to preserve the rivet detail, mask the surrounding area before sanding. For the ejector pin marks on the lower tail surfaces you can use a rotary hole punch or punch and die set to create circles from thin styrene. This kit would be a good one for a beginner to cut their teeth on. Keep up the good work.

[Teqamasala]

I haven’t watched you for quite a long time and this style of video is a big improvement! Well done Matt 😄

[tonybennett]

You did a good job with what you had and the time frame. A good starter kit or, as you say, something to experiment with.

[ronaldwergin]

A favorite as a child. Even now I collect the old Revell 1/72 scale kits but this one should never have been reissued as the front end is completely inaccurate and is really nothing but a toy even back when it was first issued. Back when the molds were first presented to American Revell they knew 60 years ago that this was completely inaccurate. Great video as always.

[lenny_]

you deserve a hundred thousand more subs! i really like your straight forward honest reviews, as a hobbyist amateur myself your content helps further my interest in the hobby

[CrazyChemistPL]

My experience in 1/72 scale Mustang Ds is one Italeri kit and one Academy kit. I also have Airfix starter set one in my stash. The Italeri was fine, but it had a shallow panel lines, the fuselage/wing joint needed filling, the trailing edge of the wing didn't align well with the fuselage and it had a weird solution for mounting the propeller so I just decided to glue it in place to make painting easier (the rotating propeller isn't really all that important for me). On the plus side, it has existing cooling duct internals and interesting paint/decal options: USAF Korean War, camo RAF and RNZAF. Academy one is better - it has great fit, though I did end up doing only a little bit filling in the fuselage/wing joint, it has option of building it flaps up or down, it has very nice crisp panel lines and riveting that (between primer, color and primer) survived up to 9 total layers of rattle can spray paint of my rather heavy handed brush painting without issue but, on the downside, the internals of supercharger are nonexistent, and the canopy gives slightly "uncanny valley" feeling when looked at from the front (seems to be too wide on top). This Revell kit, I'd say cannot compare to any of the two. I'm looking forward to trying my hand at the Airfix kit, which seems to be an upgrade over the Academy still - more internal details, better canopy, a pilot figure and option of building it wheels up - I'm really tempted to do this one in flight, but I have to figure out some sort of stand for it.
As far as your build, it only proves that with skills you can get something even out of a tur... challenging kit. If I may offer some critique - the port fuselage/wing joint (I keep using this term in this comment, don't I?) is probably the weakest point of this build. I assume you held back a bit with the sanding to try and save most of the surrounding raised riveting/panel lines? Anyway, in areas like that I think using sandpaper instead of sanding stick would give a better result, because it would form a nice curve when pressed to the wing and fuselage, but that trick only really would work on models with recessed panel lines, as it would destroy any raised detail. I feel like I'm not describing it terribly well, sorry...

[henrysanchez]

That was a very good kit, I built it for a friend great kit, nothing wrong with older kits for a few bucks it's a great kit don't understand why so many people complain about kits if you don't like don't buy it.

[Modellbauer]

I take for canopies and other glasses Cartoon glue, which I ever use on my cartoon models. Then you can’t get a dirty canopy and you can wash it with water away.

[PurplEWolFGaminG]

Congratulations matt and yeah i have 3 p51D's in my collection/stash

[thng]

i made this one after being gifted some amazing models by my parents for christmas and this was far by my favourite, as i am fairly new to modelling i did have some trouble with the d-day marking and its definitely not the prettiest but i feel as if it was a milestone for learning how to paint and model the american silver models, my next model also being my first 1:48 will be the p47 hoping i can use what ive learned in the 2 years of modelling to make a beautiful accurate jug, i love your videos and havent had the motivation to subscribe lol, im jk but hopefully i can revisit this p51 in a few years to make it just as good as you have in this video

[PhantomPlayzReal]

I hope you do get to 100 thousand subscribers it would be a honour to see you with a silver play-button 😀

[HellfireModels]

Quite liking the new format! Surprisingly rare to see talking head segments in scale modelling videos come to think of it

[savik]

Bought the thing out of curiosity, opend the box, ordered Airfix the same day.

[paulhetherington]

Great job of a tired old kit. I finished the Airfix version recently and it looks so markedly better than this one. Good technique tip on painting the undercarriage up and using the parts as a mask and getting the final paint job on it before setting the undercarriage in position. Will give better effect rather than painting and attaching separately. Will take that into current and future builds.