Three twin-boom Lightnings in 1:32 scale. Two of them belonged to Robin Olds in the 434th Squadron of the 479th Group in the spring of 1944 and carried in turn the inscriptions Scat II and Scat III, both under the code L2 with the letter W. They are joined by a machine with the inscription Wicked Woman, listed under the number 42-23587.
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Robin Olds is among the pilots whose name modelers know even without a detailed explanation. In the Second World War he flew a twin-boom Lightning with the 434th Fighter Squadron, which came under the 479th Fighter Group, and in May 1944 he had two machines in turn. The first was the P-38J-15-LO with the serial number 43-28707, the second 43-28341, and both carried the same code L2 with the individual letter W on the nacelles.
The inscriptions on the two aircraft differed only in the ordinal number, Scat II and Scat III. The pilot carried the name over from aircraft to aircraft and raised the ordinal numeral. The modeler thus gets the rare chance to build side by side two consecutive chapters in the career of one man on otherwise almost identical machines.
The third subject is the P-38J-15-LO with the serial number 42-23587 and the inscription Wicked Woman, which flew with the 8th Fighter Squadron. The pilot was Lieutenant McLawson. It is the same production block as the previous two machines, so the shape of the airframe is identical and only the color and inscription treatment differs.
Among American fighters the Lightning was an exception: two engines, two tail booms and the cockpit in the middle. The arrangement gave the pilot concentrated fire from the nose without the need to converge the guns at a single point, and at the same time a decent range. Models of this type in 1:32 scale need a lot of room in a display case because of the span.
The markings are supplied on a carrier sheet for wet transfer. The kit and the paints are not part of it.
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