I'll be damned if I know where it came from but

my wife handed me a 1/48 scale P-51D Mustang kit. I think she found it in some stuff she got while cleaning out someone's house.

I think it was one of those deals of 'take what you want and the rest goes to Goodwill' deals. She snagged the kit and asked me if I wanted it. I had to think twice because I originally wanted to avoid warplanes. My room is graced with a DeHavilland  Beaver and a Grumman Goose. These are airplanes I actually flew in when I was in Alaska. There's also an unbuilt DC kit I was getting to. I have flown in a DC-3 before, too.

Anyway, the kit had all sorts of things I really didn't want. The model is designed to sit on a desktop of some sort. It comes with landing gear and a couple of exposed access ports.

I wanted to set it up in the flying configuration and support it from the ceiling with light monofiliment fish line. I got lucky. All of the access port and landing gear covers fit properly. I do believe Revell actually thought ahead and figured someone like me would want to display it as a flyer.

The Mustang will probably be hung up later today.

In other news, elk  backstrap and eggs for breakfast.





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