Redboost Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 5 hours ago, JTninja said: Any ideas how it compares to the Brengun A-36 kit? It looks very good If that was intended for me, I think these are completely different type of kits and different versions too, so in my opinion a direct comparison would be, honestly, unfair. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre B Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 As the Arma P-51B/C has two tales one wonder how good one of them would fit the Airfix or Tamiya P-51D? Do we have an option here? Cheers / André Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seboo Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 New boxings planned: This will be followed by the P-51 C Mustang™ Mk III Model Kit in February, the F-6C Mustang™ in April, and the P-51 B/C Mustang™ Model Kit in June. Also: I will, however, confirm that existing projects will be continued, and hope that the following models will make it to market in 2022: Hurricane Mk IIc on a scale of 1/48 in the first half of the year Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat™ and P-51 D/K Mustang™ on a scale of 1/72 in the second half of the year. The F4F-4 Wildcat™ Model Kit 1/72 scale will be available in January. This will be followed by the P-51 C Mustang™ Mk III Model Kit in February, the F-6C Mustang™ in April, and the P-51 B/C Mustang™ Model Kit in June. Successive boxes of the Hurricane Mk II are also planned, starting with the Eastern Front and the Mk IIa versions (also on a scale of 1/72). Source: http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2021/12/31/a-summing-up-of-the-year-and-some-announcements/?utm_source=armahobbynews&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=P-51BC&utm_term=70038-podsumowanie-2021-2022&utm_content=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric B. Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Hi, I received mine and it's a gem. It sets a new standard over previous P-51B/C kits. Now it makes me look forward to their forthcoming P-51D - I'll by several... Eric B. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) Box art - release expected in February 2022 - ref. 70039 - N.A. P-51C Mustang Mk.III https://www.armahobby.pl/70039-p-51c-mustang-mk-iii-model-kit.html Quote (...) This will be followed by the P-51 C Mustang™ Mk III Model Kit in February, the F-6C Mustang™ in April, and the P-51 B/C Mustang™ Model Kit in June. (...) Techmod - ref. TCH72009 - North American P-51 Mustang Mk. III https://www.armahobby.pl/72009-north-american-p-51-mustang-iii.html - ref. TCH72021 - North American P-51 Mustang Mk. III https://www.armahobby.pl/72021-north-american-p-51-mustang-iii.html - ref. TCH7228 - North American P-51 Mustang Mk. III https://www.armahobby.pl/72028-north-american-p-51-mustang-iii.html V.P. Edited December 31, 2021 by Homebee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) Source: http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2021/12/31/a-summing-up-of-the-year-and-some-announcements/ Quote PER ASPERA AD ASTRA – THE MODEL OF THE MUSTANG We overdid it with the Mustang model. Simply put, it has too many subvariants available straight out of the box, and thus it contains way too many parts and its instruction is perforce complicated. We wanted one kit to cover all available options, which would allow you to make any version matching your decals. The P-51 B/C Mustang™ Expert Set has standard American and British nationality markings. All that you need are numbers, codes and personal insignia in order to make any humpbacked Mustang with a Merlin engine! The division of the tail section raised some doubts during planning. I desperately wanted it to also be available in a version with the fin in front of the vertical stabilizer. Luckily, an opening for the fin can be made easily and simply by cutting from the inside with a fresh blade kept parallel to the longitudal section of the fuselage. It is equally easy to make an opening for the radio direction-finder and the cameras As you may have noticed, the model contains a different type of masking than that used hitherto. Unfortunately, the Japanese masking paper, kabuki, was not available and we were forced to use a replacement. We will return to this material as soon as possible. The metal plates for the model were a long time coming: in November, the post needed four weeks to get them in from the Czech Republic. That the kit made it to the market at all is a miracle of sorts. Despite constant interruptions, quarantines and changes of contractors during the production process, we managed to get it to the shops before the end of the year. The model was available before Christmas and, thanks to you, became an enormous success. Please accept our thanks for your comments, reviews, and critique – both positive and negative. You have caused our model to gain immense popularity, encouraging many modellers to make a pre-Christmas purchase. http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2021/12/15/p-51-b-c-mustang-expert-set-first-build-gallery/ Many of you have asked about the plastic frames, the so-called “overtrees”: why weren’t they available at the première? The decision was taken when there was still no certainty whether the model would indeed be available in shops by year-end. We asked Michał, our head of shipments, if it would be at all possible to send the kit to modellers before Christmas. He replied immediately that “perhaps yes – if there are no overtrees”. Additional frames are an immense complication for mass packing, while without efficient packing there is no speedy shipment. This recently found confirmation during the packing of the very popular FM-1/FM-2 Wildcat™ Deluxe Set. An additional person was employed for this very purpose but mixed up the moulded pieces, placing two FM-1 frames in a few dozen boxes, without the FM-2 frames (we are sending the missing frames free of charge, see the link). Thus, the overtrees will be available, however when everything calms down; hopefully when we commence marketing of the Mustang™ Mk III (see our announcement further on). V.P. Edited December 31, 2021 by Homebee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 12/29/2021 at 7:28 AM, Andre B said: As the Arma P-51B/C has two tales one wonder how good one of them would fit the Airfix or Tamiya P-51D? Do we have an option here? Cheers / André When mine arrives, I'll be looking at whether the spare parts will be useful to improve the elevators and rudder on the Academy P-51 (Allison-powered). Since the tail section on the Academy P-51B is a whole separate assembly, what I had done previously is to cut off the tail of the P-51 and use the P-51B section. This works well, FWIW. The rib/fabric detail on the P-51 kit just doesn't look as good as that of the P-51B kit. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 12 hours ago, John Thompson said: Academy P-51 (Allison-powered). As far as I'm aware Academy have never done an Allison powered Mustang, just the Merlin powered B/C and D models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socjo1 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, Dave Swindell said: As far as I'm aware Academy have never done an Allison powered Mustang, just the Merlin powered B/C and D models. P-51 Mustang "North Africa" Review by Glen Porter (Academy 1/72) (kitreview.com) http://kits.kitreview.com/images/p51academyreviewgp_box.jpg Regards, Michal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 9 minutes ago, socjo1 said: P-51 Mustang "North Africa" Review by Glen Porter (Academy 1/72) (kitreview.com) Oops, forgot that one, Michal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stilwell Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Expert Set boxing (70038) now arrived at Hannants: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AH70038 Jonathan. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Very impressed by this kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Very impressed by this kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Today's email update from Arma says that the first run of these kits has sold out completely; information will be put up on Arma's web site later this week regarding preorders from the next batch (RAF Mustang III), as well as (at last!) the availability of overtrees. Get 'em now - prices are expected to rise as of February 1! John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stilwell Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) As oxymoronic as "the first run of these kits has sold out completely" / "Get 'em now" may sound, the Arma Hobby website is accepting pre-orders for a re-stock / second run of the Expert Set (70038) at the current price. Jonathan. Edited January 26, 2022 by Stilwell Edited for clarification 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalea Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 But they still can be bought at the usual suspects. (For a while, anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 13 hours ago, Stilwell said: As oxymoronic as "the first run of these kits has sold out completely" / "Get 'em now" may sound, the Arma Hobby website is accepting pre-orders for a re-stock / second run of the Expert Set (70038) at the current price. Jonathan. Yeah, oxymoronicism 'R' Us, for sure. It was actually the overtrees I had in mind with the comment about "get 'em while you can" - in the past, overtrees have only been available for a limited time; e.g., the Yak-1b ones are no longer available, although, yes, the Wildcat ones can still be had. Maybe I should have said, "preorder 'em while you can". Regardless, the P-51B offer of three overtrees for 31.50 gross/25.61 net Euros looks like a screaming deal to me, even if you do have to order a full kit to qualify (or is it three? All it says is that they must be ordered in a "set"). So, preorder 'em while you can!!! (Good luck with that - at the moment, Arma's web site seems to be jammed up - maybe from the seething mob of rabid P-51 enthusiasts preordering basketloads of overtrees...) John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fukuryu Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 hours ago, John Thompson said: overtrees have only been available for a limited time; e.g., the Yak-1b ones are no longer available @John Thompson, the Yak-1b overtrees are still available with the "Soviet Aces" Boxing, FWIW. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Good evening The preorder for the P51 BC Mustang Mk III is ''opened'' https://www.armahobby.com/70039-p-51c-mustang-mk-iii-model-kit.html For me 1 Mustang MkIII box with 3 Overtrees for around 48 euros postage included who can resist such an offer ? Best Regards Patrice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Good evening The P51 BC Mustang Mk III is available https://www.armahobby.com/70039-p-51c-mustang-mk-iii-model-kit.html Patrice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 It should be as a framed quote, but I can't make it: Jan 27 @Homebee changed the title to 1/72 - North American P-51B/C/F.6 Mustang Mk.III by Arma Hobby - P-51B/C released - F.6 in April & new P-51B/C in June 2022 I know you quoted this sentence straight from the official Arma Hobby newsletter. But they made a mistake there, and you repeated it here. The correct statement should end with "& new P-51D/K in June 2022". If it will ever be June 2022 for us.... Cheers Michael 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 46 minutes ago, KRK4m said: The correct statement should end with "& new P-51D/K in June 2022". If it will ever be June 2022 for us.... That will be a happy day for many Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Will the D/K kit be three times the price of the Airfix? And three times as good? Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 I just priced up the current kit plus 3 overtrees to NZ, about NZ105-110 all up, NZ26-28 per frame, the decals of this kit would let me sell off a Revell kit I have, I already had decals for the two options in the first boxing I would have used so didn't buy that but at that price, even though it is a bit of a financial bite, I can easily justify it. Steve. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 @stevehnz So why did my post make you sad? Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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