Question on 1 18 P 51 Red Tail

[scwarlord]

How rare is the 21st Century P51 Red Tail with the Tuskeegee pilot? I saw one several years ago, none since then. Thanks.

[pickelhaube]

How rare is the 21st Century P51 Red Tail with the Tuskeegee pilot? I saw one several years ago, none since then. Thanks.

Not so rare . But after the Tuskeegee movie the prices went through the roof.

They have some what stabalized.

[scwarlord]

Ok. Thanks. So if I want to find one where do I look? What would be a reasonable price, even on Ebay?

[tmanthegreat]

They were over $200 at one point... eBay may be your best bet.

This plane remains one of those "shouldn't have done that" moves on my part. My local TRU got in a couple of them back in 2007 for the nice price of $50. I picked up one that I sent to another board member. I then picked up one myself. I had the plane in my hands out on the living room floor in the process of assembling it - but good old 21c QC defects ensured that the wings would not secure properly. The screw tubes wouldn't line up. I got annoyed, boxed the plane back up and took it back. I justified it on the grounds that I had 3 other 21c P-51s at that point, never mind 2 BBI ones as well, so didn't really need a sixth. In retrospect, I probably should have kept the Tuskeegee plane

[Buckyroo]

I still have mine brand new in the box. One of the few that I didn't open...

sure glad I didn't, but I would like to find another one to display....

[DocTodd]

I still have mine brand new in the box. One of the few that I didn't open...

sure glad I didn't, but I would like to find another one to display....

Ditto

[AMERICAN_GRENADIER]

Its crazy the prices I have seen them go for. When they came out we could not sell them had the laying around for almost a year. eventually discounted them out and sold some on ebay.

[tmanthegreat]

Its crazy the prices I have seen them go for. When they came out we could sell them had the laying around for almost a year. eventually discounted them out and sold some on ebay.

Funny how that is. The things that sold poorly become the valuable items. It reminds me of the XD S1 "Herman Graff" or "Tulip Nose" Bf-109G. They were all over Wal Marts in at least the western states in the 2006-07 timeframe and sold poorly. Heck, even my local Hobbytown had a stash of them that they couldn't sell. Eventually, Wal Mart discounted them below $30 and only then did my local stores start to get in P-51s, new Bf-109 repaints, etc. Apparently, that scheme never made it out of the west and now that same plane which I thought was so common is one of the rarer types and can sell for big bucks - even though its tooling is really inferior to the later-production 21c BF-109Gs.