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Airfix P-38F Lightning 1/72 old kit


CasualModel98

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Bought this really old kit dating back likely 30 years. The kit is so old it has some mold growing on some plastic parts.

 

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The decals are really old and the thin covering sheet has stuck to the decal. See the brown fuzzy stuff. I tried to peel it off but it is stuck fast. Sometime during the last decade it must have gotten wet.

 

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The finished product. Decided to take some liberties with the chrome painting and the decals.

Did not add sufficient weight to the nose so I had to add a stick to the tail boom to keep it from being an bottom sitter.

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I was able to rescue the decals, they turned out quite well. Actually they are quite robust and the survived long soaks and my slowly scratching off the brown paper stuck to the decal. I literally held down the decal with a tweezer and used a blunt instrument to scrape off the brown paper fuzz.  Surprise the decal did not tear except for the one PUDGY decal.

 

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