Academy #12464 1/72 P-51 B Mustang "Old Crow" Bud Anderson Academy's 1/72 scale model of the P-51B Mustang features a detailed cockpit, optional open and closed "standard" canopies plus a "Malcolm Hood" canopy, two types of exhaust, two types of drop tank, bombs, rockets and markings for 3 aircraft: "Old Crow" and "Rebel Queen" of the USAAF plus "PK G" of the RAF. Starting with P-39s during Stateside training, Bud always named his fighters Old Crow continued from P-51Bs up , a tradition that to his final F-105D Thunderchief. Despite his teetotaler parents, the youthful pilot had acquired an appreciation for the Kentucky bourbon, although today he likes to quip,“I tell my Baptist friends that my plane was named for the smartest bird in the sky.”
Requires glue & paint for assembly (Modelling equipment sold separately)