Lockheed P-38 Lightning

David Deavall Very interesting

Ken Patterson I have some old Aeromaster paints which may also be useful; only problem at the moment is time to build

David Deavall We all seem to have that problem mate

Alex K

Ulf Petersen Great build and a well deserved award, Marek!

soheil moghisi really nice.

Holger Kranich Congratulations, Marek! Well deserved!!!

Spanjaard congratulations, really well done.

Choppa Nutta lovely work

Mike Grant Very nice

Lex Jassies Beautiful finished plane.

Gordon Sørensen Looks great! Very nice paint.

Irving González good Derek

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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Tim Mansfield Built mine as a P-332 Castrated Lightning
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