Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Markus Antonius me too - if tamiya would manufacture real cars, you could buy them on the phone without testdriving them!

Chaz Gordon But you'd have to build it yourself, they'd only run for 15 minutes before needing to refuel, you'd have to buy the steering wheel and fuel tank separately, and you'd have to drive it while stood on the side of the road.

Michael Hickey I'll build this bird when I finish my 109, that way I should have the decals from Bombshell Decals in my hand.

James C Cool banana's, will be in with a grin on this one

Michael Hickey I first built this exact markings when I was a teenager and over the years from moving from house to house and city to the bush this kit got lost somewhere. The decals should turn up in a couple of weeks, so sit back and enjoy the show James.

Christopher Mullins This is now on hold due to problems with the decals

Christopher Mullins New decals are there, and old ones stripped off. Wasnt exactly an easy job though but I got it done.

Christopher Mullins So the decals that came with the model sucked. I bought new decals, they sucked too, fell apart when they hit the water. The original ones had the wrong blue, pictures on the internet from the real bird show a dark blue. The new decals had a similar color, so now I am going to paint them on the best I can. Really they look better painted on than with decals most the time, but painting stripes is a real challenge, even with masking them because getting them strait is pretty hard, at least for me. Also, the instructions didn't show any colors for the propeller hubs, but the pictures of the bird on the internet show that they are white with the red, yellow, and blue stripes as well.I painted the blue stripes on already, they look good I think except for the band on the fuselage, they turned out way too thin and not very even. I will upload pictures when I get it looking decent again. I also plan on finding a better model and doing a green over grey camo job with a certain nose-art that I like.

Jake Holshuh Built for Sue's cousin Tommie who wanted the Guadalcanal pilot, Robert Petit, who loaned the plane to Rex Barber for the mission.

Tim Mansfield Built mine as an F-5A recon Lightning
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Tim Mansfield Built mine as a P-332 Castrated Lightning
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Nigel Home Complete Kit - Parts Loose in Box

Grant Hills Looking to practice some scratch building with this- turn it from an ugly L into a "G" or a "J"

Edward May I've begun the process of measuring out the cockpit section of the model and using the existing kit parts to form a basic interior template that will be replaced by one made from plastic card. After delving into my kit I discovered that what I really have here is an F-4C rather than an F-4A as labeled on the carton - yet clearly stated in the instructions. I've been scouring the web looking for interior photos of the F-4C but they are few and far between from what I've seen thus far. While I could fudge it and base it entirely on the early P-38s I don't want to miss any subtle differences. As such I've also been looking at the RS Models kits to see what sort of an interior they provide. Before I really dive into that I need to do some dry fitting of the nose section as the pronounced step under the snoot of the F-4 and F-5 Photo Recon Lightnings looks a little too subtle on this old Revell kit. There is a shape difference between the P-38F/F-4C "chin" just aft of the nose cone - but the photos on the box do not show a real clear view. If the shape problem simply is too significant I'm left with a major choice; Conduct a whole next level scratch building/conversion job OR build this kit as a P-38F as my father did when I was in grade school and just fork out the cash for the RS Models kit for an F-4A.

Clifford Keesler Nice P-38.

Scott Dutton Very nice, whose olive drab did you use

KollHBM Thank you for the compliments. Scott I used Life Color UA003 Olive Drab acrillic paint.

JOHN THOMAS Very nice

Robert W Martel Another one of my all time favorites. Nice Job !

KollHBM Thank you for the nice comments.

Stephan Ryll Very nice result !

Scott Dutton Thanks for info, trying various OD, been using Xtracrylix for last few builds. Will try yours.

Cuajete Good paint

KollHBM Thanks.