I was in my basement painting a kit today when looked up and saw a "model" I built when I was 13. I'll give you a little back story of why this might be significant. My junior high school wood shop teacher (ironically his name was Mr. Wood) had a talent for building WW2 aircraft out of wood. He had built, with exceptional skill, many aircraft from the US, Germany, and Japan.
Unfortunately, my junior high school split in to two junior high schools for my 8th grade year. And Mr. Wood relocated to the new school. The new wood shop teacher gave us an assignment to make anything we wanted.
So, in the spirit of Mr. Wood, I made this:
I used the plans from a Gullow's balsa wood P-51D, which puts it about 1/24 scale. I bought the decals from The Squadron shop, which was on John R back in Michigan. I hand painted the canopy, the nose checkers annd the prop. And I built the stand. I did get an A on the assigment, and presented it to my father as a gift, since he loved P-51's.