With the number of Lockheed P-38 Lightning kits on the market – including Tamiya’s new-tool examples – Detail & Scale’s fresh book is a boon, says CHRIS CLIFFORD.
Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning, dubbed the ‘fork-tailed devil’ by Luftwaffe pilots due to its twin-boomed layout, has always been an interesting modelling prospect. There are many kits across the different scales, but if you’re considering the reconnaissance variants and fighters up to P-38H, Detail & Scale’s new softback offers a wealth of reference.
At 102 pages, it’s crammed with excellent period imagery (including colour shots), 19 pages of black and white scale line drawings, and photos of restored airframes. This is not one of the publisher’s Colors & Markings volumes, so it shuns colour artwork, but ‘goes large’ with the photographic reference… and this is splendid in its range and depth. If it’s detail you’re after, look no further as there’s a whole host here, both internal and external. Cockpit features, undercarriage bays, engines and airframe nuances are all explored.
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Concise historical narrative about the Lightning appears first, before it delves into each relevant sub-type. Content on the…
