Lockheed P-38 Lightning
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Finished Projects!
Hi everyone! It’s been a very busy month for the beginning of college -unfortunately that also means that I can’t build my models anymore and would have to wait for breaks to get back on the bench. So I thought I’d share some of my [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 P-38J Lightning
With all its short falls concerning mostly with fit issues, Hasegawa's Lightning is very convincing.
1:48 Tamiya P-38G Lightning
I’ve wanted to build a P-38 for a while and have had the Tamiya P-38 F/G kit in my stash for about a year. I chose Lt. John G. O’Neill’s “Beautiful Lass” as the subject. I’ve always thought P-38s looked much better in flight [...]
Video: The Aesthetic Model
This is the third of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. I explain what I discovered about the essence of the elegant shape of the P-38. More importantly, how it relates to [...]
Video: It Starts With a Vision
This is the second of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. It was the beginning of an understanding that a vision may not always be the building experience.
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Video: Making Space
This is the first of four segments that explain what I learned while working through the review of the Tamiya P-38J kit. As it turned out, it was an extremely enlightening experience.
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ProModeler Monogram 1/48 P-38F
A re-boxing of the venerable Hasegawa kit featuring new decals for the early P-38 types. The model represents a veteran aircraft with a high mission score that belonged to the 27th FS of the 1st FG when based in Tunisia during [...]
Video: Tamiya P 38 Closing the Gear Doors
This video describes several methods for closing the gear doors of the Tamiya P-38 Lightning for in-flight display.
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Tamiya P-38 Web Page:
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Tamiya P-38 Photo Recon Web Page:
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1/32 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Trumpeter 02227
At the end of last year I finished this P-38 from Trumpeter. Not a very easy kit to build. There were almost no parts that fitted together without problems. A lot of filling, sanding and repairing lost surface details. If it had not been [...]
My 2023 Builds
It has been a while since my last post so I figured I better get my wheels rolling again. A little late on posting my builds from 2023 but here they are.
A little different year for me but happy with the results. I had my usual fun [...]
