Tamiya P-38F/G Lightning - Just Announced

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This popped up in my Facebook feed this morning. Looks like a new P-38 is coming in 1/48. The wife nixed a quick trip to Tokyo for the reveal on this new release that is slated for 25 July.

I would stand in line for a Tamiya P-38 !!!

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And I would love for it to be Marge

Cool! I wonder which variant it will be? Think Tamiya will do a F/G type and in the Yamamoto mission markings?

Let’s hope it really is a P-38. A modern version is long overdue.

Word on the street is that it’s a F/G/H. I would have thought it would be a L or J.

Being the oddball modeler I am, I’d like an M night fighter. I love the gloss black paint scheme, little radar pod and the humbacked RIO station.

Oh I hope so. I have done enough L variants in NMF.

I’ll believe that tamiya makes this airplane when pigs fly.

I’d love to build a droop-snoot version.

https://www.tamiyausa.com/blog/tamiya-61120-148-lockheed-p-38-fg-lightning/

It is officially announced! P-38F/G Lightning.

Can they just go ahead and send a couple of these to my address in Katy, Texas?

Very nice !!! What does everyone think,about $75.00 ? It a big aircraft,but not as big as the Tomcat

Thats about what their Betty was going for… Most of their other propellor twins cost less.

Would love to see a set of decals for Rex Barber’s bird.

Those are the markings on the box art.

I’m buying 3 or 4, I have plans already!

And for anyone wondering and H model can be made with it, there was no external differences between F/G/H models.

Here’s a few additional pictures from the kit

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2019/07/tamiyas-148th-scale-lockheed-p-38-fg.html#more

Great the Revell Monogram one I built was a huge disappointment I look forward to this being released.

What model was Richard Bong’s Marge,did he actually fly Marge in combat,or was that just a promotional bird.

Marge was an L I believe. Possibly a late J, but definitely the type with the later designed chin scoops area. But Bong was also one of the 5th AF pilots who helped introduce the P-38 into combat in the SWPA with the early model as well.

Marge was a J model