This mustang is from a foam ARF kit sold by Model Electronics Corp (http://www.modelelectronicscorp.com/). The kit was originally released by Kyosho years before but when they discontinued the model, MEC bought Kyosho's remaining inventory.
It comes in natural EPS foam with a high quality surface that needs little preparation depending on your preference for finish.

On mine I wanted to push the performance to extremes so I worked the wing over extensively. I added a carbon fiber spar and trailing edges. The trailing edges were then profiled to a sharp edge to help attain higher speeds. I tried an experimental surface finish on the wing consisting of silkspan applied with West Systems epoxy. It ultimately produced a fine quality finish that toughened up the wing tremendously but it was more touble than it was worth because it needed a lot of sanding. If I did it again I'd just use 0.5 ounce fiberglass cloth instead of the silkspan. I painted it with a water based acrylic primer then top coat of Testors Modelmaster silver spraypaint. The black and yellow trim was brushed on acrylic. All the insignias were included in the kit and are of good quality.

I had to bend my own landing gear wires as none were included, but there are already hard plastic inserts in the wing bottom to accept the gear.

MEC recommends their Turbo10 plus motor and superbox gearbox for this model. However I chose a slightly different setup. I combined a Trinity Speed Gems II car motor, the 'Ruby' 16 turn model, with a Master Airscrew 2.5:1 ratio gearbox. With 8 RC2000 NiCds and a 9x7 APC glow prop, the Mustang was very fast. It was a little tricky to take off because the high pitch prop required a long takeoff run to get going, but once "on-step" the speed was very exiting. The Mustang looks awesome doing high speed 'strafing' runs and the gearbox has just enough of a growling noise to be reminiscent of a Merlin V12 engine as it cruises by at part throttle.

The simple but effective motor mount

A nice shot ready for takeoff!