Need some help chaps, when was 1st 1/32 P-51 Mustang produced etc

[CCC]

HELP

Trying to do a timeline of all the companies that have produced a 1/32 P-51 over the years.

Am I right in guessing that is what either Monogram or Hasagawa? But what year? In fact what are the years that every 1/32 P-51 regardless of model type, have been produced?

Any ideas when re-issues were released?

Help would be very much appreciated.

Edited November 5, 2014 by CCC

[brewerjerry]

hi

Browse this link, it will tell you most of them produced, but not years.

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/kitdb/list.php?act=search&plane=P-51

Cheers

Jerry

Edited November 5, 2014 by brewerjerry

[trickydicky210]

Or try this

http://www.scalemates.com/search-solr.php?fkSECTION[]=Kits&q=%22North+American+P-51+Mustang%22+1%3A32

[CCC]

Thanks for that Jerry

Never new that site existed

[Nick Belbin]

I'm pretty sure that Revell did the Mustang as part of their 1/32 series in the very late 60s - early 70s.

Nick

[noelh]

I think Revell were the earliest in 1/32. Their Mustang was definitely issued in the sixties or early seventies. I know because I remember vividly entering a newspaper competition where the prize was a Revell 1/32 kit. The paper had a photo of the box art of the Mustang in British markings. I cut out the picture and glued it onto the inside lid of my Helix geometry set. Every day in school I would stare at it dreaming! (This was of course before the girl thing ruined my life!)

Then one day the postman arrived with a parcel. I had won a kit! Thrilled, I ripped it open to find..............a 1/32 Bf109G. Not bad but not a Mustang. I have mourned since!

That would have been the Malcolm hood version. Wouldn't the D model have been first out even earlier.

[bootneck]

I bought mine at a model shop in Nee Soon, Singapore, in 1965. I remember that it was by Monogram and had see-through fuselage and brightly coloured internal framing!

Mike

[dwh]

The Monogram 1/32 Phantom Mustang cat no PA77 was first produced in 1961 through to 1970

[Dana Bell]

I agree on the Phantom Mustang being the first. I remember it well as the one thing I most wanted that Christmas - and it was everything I hoped it would be.

I also remember not having petrolium jelly to grease the gears - and using Vicks Vaporub instead! That model smelled like a bad head cold well into the spring...

Cheers,

Dana

[Darby]

It was just before the second one. Seriously though probably Revell or Monogram

[CCC]

many thanks for all your help chaps

very much appreciated

[tempestfan]

Monogram definitely first, both as Phantom and "solid" D, Hase D probably second around 1969 or so (was that one ever reboxed by Fog ? same year has been quoted for the Revell , Revell D as racer versions released 1973 or 4. Academy is basically a clone of Hasegawa, released 1986 or 7.

[tango98]

Strangely enough, I got the self same kit as mentioned by Bootneck in the same year and also in Singapore; only I got mine from a small shop in Jalan Kayu just outside of what was then RAF Seletar.

Don't remember what happened to it though.