Airfix de Havilland Vampire F.3 1:48 Royal Airforce Military Aviation Plastic Model Kit A06107

Excellent detail, accuracy, and quality. The instructions are thorough, and include painting guides to two famous P-51's. Parts are included for early and late tail sections as well as three different canopies. Decals are by Cartograph and are of the usual quality by that company.However, Amazon needs to stop shipping model kits in just the mailing envelope. My kit box was crunched on one side...but the model was fine.This model is better than the 25 year old Tamiya and is as good as the Meng. I do not know about the Eduard kit...

Newer airfix kits has really stepped up their game with these 1/48 scale Aircrafts, especially this Mustang. Perfect decals, perfect fit, literally no issues. Would recommend to any intermediate model builder!

The historic nature of the DH100 is well known with over 3,000 aircraft built in multiple versions. The F3 version here is an early operational model with 4 20mm cannons in the nose and the drop tanks are in three pieces. Needing 15 grams of nose weight makes a tight fit in the front and some can be added to the wing tanks to add forward weight. The pilot figure is ok but was replaced with a Tamiya RAF pilot with more detail. Now building the F5/9 version and the 1/32 model is on the way. A good item for the modeler with an interest in WWII jets and the history of jet technology.

Package was in good condition, came in padded bag. Looked great until i started going over parts, there are no canopy parts. According to instructions there should be two clear canopy parts. Of course i will contact Amazon to see if they can get them for me, otherwise i will send whole thing back. Another issue I guess i wasn't doing the math in my head because i didn't think about 1/48 being pretty small for a WW2 model fighter plane. It is a very small model with lots of tiny parts. Okay for skilled builder but probably difficult for younger builders. NOTE Amazon came through quickly, I received a new package with all the parts on Sunday that was just two days later. I just have to return the original shipment by October but can drop it off at a UPS store as is no repacking necessary. I have changed my star rating.

This was the first kit I've bought from Airfix, and it looked great when I unboxed the parts. The problem became apparent when I began to try to fit the pieces together, and found that many of the had to be completely re-engineered with putty and sandpaper to make them work together. The inner assembly was especially problematic, because the fuselage would not fit around it because it was too wide once assembled. After extensive grinding with a rotary tool, I was finally able to get the pieces to come together.There are also too many small pieces, like the tank cradles, that do not have a large enough contact point to be adequately glued together before final assembly. Had the same problem with the landing gear pieces.There were 165 pieces in the kit, but there were many pieces that were not referenced in the instructions at all. I believe these were options for different builds, but you'd be left to yor own devices to figure it out.I really wanted to like this kit, I am a fan of the P51 Mustang, but will probably look elsewhere for a better quality example.

Well-designed and engineered, my kit had no problems at all. Everything fits nicely and the instructions are clear and precise. The best of all the Vampire kits available. Highly recommended. NOTE - At the time I write (13 Sep 2023) the photo on the Amazon site is of an F-86, not a Vampire. Don't be deceived, it's really a Vampire.

I was just plain lucky to find this kit.

The Airfix A05138 P51-D Mustang kit provides an exceptionally detailed kit at 1:48 scale, with two livery options. Airfix's molds are uncommonly clean and detailed. The parts contained negligible excess sprue plastic and no casting defects. From an engineering perspective, the kit leaves a bit to be desired. Assembled correctly, the kit will require significant sanding and filler to make a seamless aircraft. Affixing the wing assembly to the fuselage was particularly challenging. This is a minor grumble for experienced modelers, though may be an impediment to progress for newcomers. I wouldn't recommend this as a "first model." The kit also contains options to assemble the landing gear extended or retracted, for inflight or ground displays. Overall, a worthwhile purchase with a few caveats.