Lockheed P-38J-5-LO, 42-67291, “Haleakala”,
459th FS, 80th FG, USAAF, Chittagong, India, 1944
Pilot: Lt. H.H. Sealy
1/72 model built using parts of Hasegawa and Dragon kits (done before the Academy kit became available) with some scratch building/reshaping. The only correctly shaped drop tanks I could find were borrowed from the Frog/Novo kit.
Detail sets ( used completely or partially):
Aires P-38J/L cockpit set,
Eduard P-38J/L detail set,
Squadron P-38 F(due to the early style windscreen on J-5) vacu canopy
Decals:
Aeromaster (all individual a/c markings were inaccurate and had to be corrected or replaced)
Dragon/Italeri kit decals, Travers, Revell (P-51B) - for technical markings