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Lockheed P-38 Lightning

And now the news

Tamiya has announced a 1/48 P-38J, for release "later this year."

Aleutian Forktail...1/48 Lockheed P-38E Lightning, 54th FS/343rd FG, USAAF

So, here´s my dad´s last model for this year. The new Tamiya P-38 kit is one of the best my dad has built so far regarding fit and engineering. Already posted it two days ago but deleted it again because I realized that my dad and I have [...]

Video: You Can't Go Back

Some thoughts about the Tamiya P-38 and the fun of building plastic scale models.

A Christmas Present

Last year's Christmas went the usual way around here, with the standard "what would you like for Christmas" being asked by my wife. My normal response is pretty noncommittal, but this time around I had a plan! Tamiya's P-38F/G [...]

Tamiya P-38H Lightning 1/48

In a great September 14, 2020 iModeler review of this kit Tom Cleaver said "The kit is a marvel of production design" that successfully deals with traditional shortcomings of P-38 kits and is “modeler-friendly.” I couldn't [...]

Monogram/Pro Modeler P-38E Lightning, 1/48

Subject: P-38E Lightning, USAAF 27th Fighter Squadron 1st Fighter Group Tunisia, August, 1943 Kit: Monogram/Pro Modeler (Hasegawa rebox) Accessories: Air Res resin and PE cockpit set (4223) Master Models brass guns (AM-48-114) Ultracast [...]

Classic Kit: Monogram 1/48 P-38 First Edition (1964)

Here is Monogram's P-38 built out of the box. This is an original first edition, kit PA97-200, and as the code shows it was priced at $2.00. Later boxings of the kit showed yellow cowlings, but on this one I painted it as the [...]

Tamiya 1/48 P-38 LightningMiss Virgina

Wow - what a fantastic model. It went together like butter and it was such a fun build. I was looking forward to a decent Lightning in this scale and I had to do it as Rex Barber's Miss Virgina. There were no build issues and this was [...]

Tamiya P-38G Lightning, 1/48. 'Miss Virginia'

My first of the Operation Vengeance trio in 1/48 was this Lightning, an amazing kit and probably the best engineered model I've made to date. There isn't a lot of negatives to say about this kit, in fact whilst I completed this model in [...]

Video: ResKit Resin Review

As I mentioned (far too many times) in the video, I'm really impressed by the quality of these parts, you can see more here on the ResKit website: (link) Music: The Lounge- www.bensound.com