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Excellent diorama, and one of my favorite planes.

Finish Stuff Friday.

This is the Hasegaw P-38 “Virginia Marie” kit. I didn’t want the teal color of the original kit, so these are some decals I picked up on ebay.

This was a frustrating kit for sure. Mostly the big seam running down the middle of the nose on each side of the fuselage. Why they couldn’t put the join along the panel lines I just don’t know.

Second, there were no alignment tabs of the propeller blades. This is pretty important on a plane like the P-38 that has opposite rotating props.

Finally, the landing gear bays on the mains would not sit in the nacelles, without leaving a lot of filling and sanding to make it acceptable. So I ended up leaving the sides of the gear bay off completely to get it to seal.

P51 Mustang Tamiya and Air Fix. One of my favorite air planes of all times.