1/72 Hasegawa/Dragon Lockheed P-38J-5 Lightning

Gallery Article by Igor Svetlov (IS) on Feb 23 2011

 

Kit bash Hasegawa/Dragon & scratch building

P-38J-5-LO‚ 42-67291‚ “Haleakala”‚
459th FS‚ 80th FG‚ USAAF‚ Chittagong‚ India‚ 1944
Pilot: Lt. H.H. Sealy 

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1/72 model built as kit bash of Hasegawa‚ Dragon and Frog/Novo (drop tanks) with some major scratch building/reshaping.

Detail sets ( used completely or partially ) :
  • Aires P-38J/L cockpit set‚
  • Eduard P-38J/L detail set‚
  • Squadron P-38F(due to the early style windscreen on J-5) vacu canopy.

Decals :
  • Aeromaster (with corrections & custom additions);
also used for technical markings:
  • Dragon/Italei kit decals‚ Travers‚ Revell (P-51B)

Well, not my latest project, but I hope everyone enjoys seeing it. 

Igor Svetlov (IS)

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Photos and text © by Igor Svetlov (IS)