P-38J Lightning (Completed)
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Andrea MorrisHere we go with the build for the second entry in to the "Warring Weather" GB on ISM.
Andrea MorrisCockpit in place, wings n booms added along with a shed load of PE! The wheel bays have been primed but I will not be priming the airframe as this will be a coat of gloss black as a base for the NFM.
Robert W MartelAnother one of my all time favorites. I have a couple of these. Cant wait to see yours finished.
Andrea MorrisThanks gents. After a coat of gloss black (MRP) no primer, then a coat of NFM (Xtreme Metal 477 Chrome).
Andrea Morrislol Pull up a chair Martin, plenty of room and there is still much left to do!
Tim HeimerI like the fact that it has more detail then the Revell I did and that you added more to it, Nice!
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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" by the Japanese. The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual path-finding for bombers and evacuation missions and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.
The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theatre of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations as the aircraft of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories), Thomas McGuire (38 victories) and Charles H. MacDonald (27 victories). In the South West Pacific theatre, the P-38 was the primary long-range fig
