Lockheed P-38 Lightning
The P-38 Database at iModeler
110 articles
Tamiya P-38F MTO, USAAF 1/48th Tunisia 1943
To say that the Tamiya P-38 was a joy to build is an understatement. Having built the Academy and Hasegawa Lightning's which are good models of the P-38, just that Tamiya had really taken a rather complicated twin boom air frame and made [...]
Classic Kit: Aurora 1/48 P-38 Restoration
This is a labor of love. I wanted to see if I could build a broken relic into something presentable. I learned about the P-38 when I build this kit as a child and I would fly it around outside shooting down me109s and what have you. The [...]
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 Lightning – Miss 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 [...]
