Be my friend…
Godfather.
Are we going to the mattresses?
Is Paulie gonna cook us all spaghetti just like mama used to make?
Two kills, I mean
kits, to be made in the family of all those model builders who took the challenge; this concept may be new to SPA Modeler (I think of this forum as SPAM in a can), however, this is a perfect GB for SPAM and it’s official to boot. Wonderful.
So.
Here’s what I propose for the first task: a silver Mustang that was lo and behold, based in Italy. Mama mia! So near and dear to my heart, Godfather. This kit is from 1967, 56 years ago. That’s the date on the box. It’s a survivor. It’s been around the block, a proud graduate of the school of hard knocks. How many of these kits were initially built right from the box with glue and bottle brush paints and in the previous example from these pages, how many were tied to the ceiling with a piece of string, always in motion, vigilant and ready for combat?
There’s always something inside an old kit, something restless, an older energy. A way of viewing things that has dimmed over the years, swallowed by the technological terrors of our time, insignificant to the power of imagination itself. Let me go all out A New Hope and force choke anyone building a kit made in the past decade. Anything designed by CAD. Anything made with pebbled gray plastic.
1/72 Monogram P-51B
Betty Jane
P-51B, 42-106941
Col. Charles M. McCorkle, CO
31st FG, 15th AF, Italy, 1944
In July 1943, McCorkle took command of the 31st Fighter Group (Spitfires, later P-51s) in Sicily. He participated in air actions during the landings at Salerno and Anzio, fighter support of air attacks in Italy and Central Europe.
A Mustang in the old country is a fine choice. 
