Whenever you open the box for this set, there are so many parts that you feel like you’re opening a complete resin kit. Altogether, there are 33 resin parts, two photo etch sheets and a clear acetate sheet. It takes six 8” x 6” instruction sheets to show how to put it all together. These instructions appear to be a big improvement over past instruction sheets, because they are less confusing and leave little to be figured out. Only one kit part is utilized, and that is the cockpit floor. And, you only use part of it. There is one other portion of the right fuselage half that gets removed, but that’s it. There’s not a lot of thinning kit parts until they are transparent or major surgery required.

This kit uses the good old Trimaster molds with some new plastic providing the correct wings, the torpedo and a few other parts necessary to make a Ta-152C. There are three small photo etch frets that contain various detail parts. Two styles of canopy are also provided. There are separate parts provided for open or closed cowl flaps. The decals, clear parts and photo etch parts are all attached to a printed piece of heavy paper to keep them from jostling around in the box and getting damaged. The kit is molded in light grey styrene, with the older parts in a shinier plastic than the new parts. The older parts are starting to show some signs of mold wear, but they are still very nice. The older parts were also more brittle than the newer parts. I actually took a chip out of one of the side consoles in the process of nipping it from the sprue. From that point on, I used a razor saw to remove the more delicate parts.

Scale Aircraft Conversion provides an excellent landing gear conversion upgrade for the 1/32 Dragon P-51D Mustang. The conversion kit consists of 12 very nicely cast white metal main gear, doors, wheel/tire combination, hydraulic lines, and tail wheel assembly. The set also contains a very basic assembly diagram. All of the parts are very well cast and appear to be accurate. The white metal hydraulic lines may be difficult to clean up and attach to the main gear.