P-38J Lightning
20th Fighter Group / 79th Fighter Squadron USAAF
King’s Cliffe, Northants, 1944
This is the Dragon / Italeri 1/72 kit which had been in the stash for more years than I can remember. My motivation to build it at last came from some USAFE research work. I thought it would be good to have something meaningful to display next to a Tiger Squadron UH F-111E (which, by the way, I haven’t built yet – but I keep looking in the box of that very nice Hasegawa kit).
I’m no P-38 expert so those that are will probably find something not quite right but it looks like a P-38 to me.
Finish is AK Xtreme Metal Polished Aluminium sprayed over Tamiya light grey primer. The yellow is from a Halfords spray can – Ford Signal Yellow – over Tamiya white primer. Decals are from Tally Ho.