Howdy! Great build man! I work on the real White 33 this model was based off and thought I might give the model some history! White 33 was one of the first 4 P-38's in the pacific theater. She is the only P-38 flying to have real combat history! (as far as we can tell) The plane has 7 kills to her name, the last being a game of chicken with a Zero that resulted in the first 4 ft of her left wing being destroyed. After returning to base they decided she was to badly damage to take the time to repair. The plane was used as a parts plane until they eventually dug a hole at the end of the runway and pushed her and many other airplanes into it. She was recovered along with all the other aircraft in the pit in the 90's and was restored by Westpac Restoration in Colorado Springs, Colorado. White 33 is by far one of the most accurate representation of a P-38 flying today. The factory serial number and other factory decals and inspection stickers are in place including under the 33 on the nose. If you would like to see what the model looks like in real life she lives at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The museum also has a plethora of iconic and rare war-birds!
My P-38 arrived Monday {10-21} beautiful kit. The antenna wire {according to the "Great book of WWII Airplanes"} comes off of both vertical stabs forward{first panel line down from the top} to a "V" on the back of the aft section of the canopy about half way. But it looks just as good off, you do what makes you happy. Enjoyed the vid
Finally!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tamiya for finally engineering an easier P-38 Lightning kit. I'm especially thrilled about the wheel well doors. Thank goodness someone finally engineered an easier way to attach them without using the tiny attachment points method that easily break. I'm so glad Tamiya tackled this subject. The Hasegawa P-38 kit looks great when finished but it takes a true test of patients to get there.
Good video. I pre-ordered this one from Andy's shop, so was waiting to see this build video on it. She's a beaut...looking forward to building it myself. This will be the first P-38 I have built since building the venerable Monogram 1/48 version that's been around in several incarnations since 1964, or an Aurora version. Good time to be a modeler, as lots of new kits from new molds from many manufacturers are being released. Most excellent! Thanks, Andy.
Note the small channels down the tops of the booms are supposed to be there. Andy sanded his out. There is a note on the top of step 30 explaining this. This kit is fantastic!
Tamiya has done it again with another one of their fantastic model kits and I sure can't wait until November gets here so I can buy their 1/48 P-38 F/G Lightning! Thanks again for posting another one of your excellent videos & model kits built by you, Andy!
Now I need one! I started to build one of the older kits about 15 years ago, but it was such a terrible fitting kit that I gave up on it. The P-38 has always been one of my absolute favorite war birds!
One thing that would make this extremely helpful for following this video to put one together, would be having all the colors and other things, like the mark fit listed in a way that someone could at least write down. Just would help when buying the model to have a list of other things I need. But, it's also simple enough to just watch the video, pause, and find the stuff as you say.
Best P-38 model out there. If I was still building models I would definitely have this one as soon as I could get my hands on one. Tamiya makes the best plastic kits you can possibly buy and this is no exception. Great video, terrific looking model and thank you for posting it!
Thanks Andy, looks like another great kit from Tamiya expertly finished by yourself. Adverts are becoming a right pain in the butt but could listen to you all day long, cheers.
engine nacelle. This is a GREAT VIDEO Sir. I've been watching your videos and learning how to airbrush so a huge thank you for sharing! I thought that all WWII era aircraft was either zinc chromate or olive drab color for the gear wells. So neat, I learned something new.
Hi Andy. I got this kit today. Looking forward to building it. Great video. I like the way you show us how to get the best out of a kit with your advice and tips.
I've seen this Lightning at the Museum of WW2 Aviation in Colorado Springs. They have the museum, plus they do restorations, including White 33. The history of the plane is really neat, including the reunion of the plane with the former pilot just before he passed away.
Thanks for this video! Now i'm going to have to go out and get one of these P-38s; and I'm a Model Builder of mainly WW2 AXIS Aircraft - Naval & Armor subjects.
Hey Andy, a great video as usual...a fantastic looking kit that you make so easy to assemble, the end result is amazing! Looks like I have to head to town and try to get my hands on one of these kits..........almost like finding gold at the end of a rainbow me thinks! Keep up the great work. FYI I am trying to get my grandkids (6 and 9) into model making......I just need the 3 p's......patience, practice and persistence!
They have a replica P-38 up at March Air Museum in Riverside CA that's wonderful to look at, and a great museum to visit if you are ever in the area. Great build!
Very nice video, thank you. Awesome kit and awesome build. I also like it when the weathering is not too much, it often makes it more realistic according to the scale imo.
Hello Andy, your build was the reason to buy soon this P-38 from Tamiya, i think the first one what is perfect in all details. Greets from Germany, i was the one who asked you who was your idol when you start modelling, and what do you like more at modelling, asssembly the parts or painting and weathering, when you had been at MBK in Delmenhorst, Germany, thank you for your nice answers. Werner
You know with the way Tamiya has engineered their recent 1/48th aircraft is top notch. I can now dream of a new tooled 1/48th B-17F. Heard rumours years ago they were looking at it. Can almost see it in my minds eye. Who knows?
Andy, Being a member of the USAF Museums, all model companies has got the Lockheed early P-38's interior colors wrong! The cockpits are O.D. not Interior Green! The gear wells are not Interior Green either they are underside color either Neutral Gray (Light Haze Blue for Recee planes F-4's or F-5's) or Bare Metal. Any questions on any USAAF aircraft just drop me a line.
@@jwrockets also if you do an early P-38J the seat and armor plate behind the seat are O.D. too, some late J's had the O.D. seats (but check your sources) and plate but all where painted Interior Green on the "L's and later models". All early P-38's landing gear struts and wells were painted the lower colors, this practice was also carried over to the later non-painted planes by just painting the struts the aluminum lacquer and leaving the wells bare metal without Zinc Chromate primers. Another great source is IPMS Stockholm U.S. Aircraft interior colors during WWII, they cover even the U.S. Navy A/C
Great build. Starting on mine now, but I’m a bit confused regarding the canopy. I know the hinge side was altered on different versions of the p-38. You have chosen to side-hinge the canopy, but I thought the H version had aft hinges. Did you check this?
Double thumbs up Andy. Another fabulous build of what looks like the best kit ever. I'm right in the middle of building the latest Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk1 and I thought that was the best kit ever, this one looks even better. Love your videos.
Awesome build Andy. I wonder if the kit will come with some photo etch? I wish you had showed how to paint and weather the turbo super chargers. Lastly, I hope tamiya will make a 1/72 p-38 ad well.
ciao Andy and welcome back. another great build. I hope that the innovations introduced by Tamiya in building the molds for this aircraft will soon be used also for the other models, including tanks, so as to have an ever greater precision of construction and realism in the details. greetings from Italy. Alessandro
I want to build this kit for my son who is currently in US Army Helicopter Flight school. Is this the F and G variant, are there instructions available on how to make it a J variant or maybe what the differences are? The bird I want to make from him is the Richard Bong P38J. The only one of these that I have seen is the Monogram version and my understanding is they are still using the molds from the '60's with the raised panels and include plenty of extra flash. I have seen that Maj. Bong flew "several" versions of the P38 I was looking to do the all silver red spinner version.
Fantastic looking P-38 Andy... lovely work mate. I have both the Hasegawa and Academy P-38 kits in the stash yet to be built.... but you've sold me on this kit. Well done!
Those "masks" for painting the cockpit are brilliant, they must be a new thing as none of my Tamiya kits had them, even when I mask off a cockpit with Tamiya tape there's always some paint that ends up on the canopy
Hey Andy, I just stepped by to tell you that I enjoy your channel very much. I love your enthusiasm and the way you explain evertything. You are a cool dude my dude! :)
Hi Nudzi! Thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate the kind words. I hope my enthusiasm inspires folks to keep modeling, but more importantly, enjoy the process. Thanks for watching.
Great build (as always)! I've looked around on the net and can't find any pictures/clips of a P38 with radio aerials - I think your build is complete. You don't build enough planes (I know tanks are your first love), but the few videos I've seen of your planes are spectacular; I'd love to see you build another beauty from Ww2 - the de Haviland Mosquito, but whatever you do I know you'll keep up the good work!
Andy, that is an amazing video and you have done an amazing job. Although I have been modelling on and off for 50 years or so, I am still not very good and certainly still learning. I can honestly say that I learned a huge amount from your film so thank you! On to Tamiya - just wow! I have never seen a model fit like that, the edges so crisp...do you think they may have changed their manufacturing process, or perhaps the type of plastic used?? When you attached the tail to the booms, the join lines literally disappeared! Amazing!!
I have this kit and superglue. Could I not paint it green and paint different? Maybe like one that is gray? Could I save the painting for the end and is superglue enough? Also, should I do in flight or on the ground version? Should I do drop tanks
Another classic WWII fighter was long overdue from Tamiya: I'm so glad it finally became a reality last year. An ambitious subject and it looks like a stunning kit. Can we hope they will come out with a 1:32 version? That would be spectacular. Now, how about a Hellcat, Tami? Or a Hurricane?
Most WWII aircraft interiors called for zinc chromate green. You use interior green. Are they the same? Interior green seems a little lighter, not as harsh.
I have watched and enjoyed many of your excellent tutorials and this Tamiya kit looks incredible but, your there was a lot of editing on this tutorial which left me unsure about some areas of the build such as gluing some of the parts together and which glues you were using. Gluing the twin booms for instance, what glue did you use and did you apply it then put the two half’s together or did you just run fit the parts together and just run some Tamiya extra thin along the edge.
Be careful Mike.. they will spoil you. Once you build one, other kits will be a little frustrating : > ) I build the 1/32nd F4U-1A Corsair and it was a dream and fun to build.
Howdy! Great build man! I work on the real White 33 this model was based off and thought I might give the model some history! White 33 was one of the first 4 P-38's in the pacific theater. She is the only P-38 flying to have real combat history! (as far as we can tell) The plane has 7 kills to her name, the last being a game of chicken with a Zero that resulted in the first 4 ft of her left wing being destroyed. After returning to base they decided she was to badly damage to take the time to repair. The plane was used as a parts plane until they eventually dug a hole at the end of the runway and pushed her and many other airplanes into it. She was recovered along with all the other aircraft in the pit in the 90's and was restored by Westpac Restoration in Colorado Springs, Colorado. White 33 is by far one of the most accurate representation of a P-38 flying today. The factory serial number and other factory decals and inspection stickers are in place including under the 33 on the nose. If you would like to see what the model looks like in real life she lives at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The museum also has a plethora of iconic and rare war-birds!
I just love watching people talk about hobby models. Especially Andy.
My P-38 arrived Monday {10-21} beautiful kit. The antenna wire {according to the "Great book of WWII Airplanes"} comes off of both vertical stabs forward{first panel line down from the top} to a "V" on the back of the aft section of the canopy about half way. But it looks just as good off, you do what makes you happy. Enjoyed the vid
Finally!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tamiya for finally engineering an easier P-38 Lightning kit. I'm especially thrilled about the wheel well doors. Thank goodness someone finally engineered an easier way to attach them without using the tiny attachment points method that easily break. I'm so glad Tamiya tackled this subject. The Hasegawa P-38 kit looks great when finished but it takes a true test of patients to get there.
Gorgeous build. I built a 1/48 monogram P38 kit when I was a kid. One of my favourite WW II planes.
Good video. I pre-ordered this one from Andy's shop, so was waiting to see this build video on it. She's a beaut...looking forward to building it myself. This will be the first P-38 I have built since building the venerable Monogram 1/48 version that's been around in several incarnations since 1964, or an Aurora version. Good time to be a modeler, as lots of new kits from new molds from many manufacturers are being released. Most excellent! Thanks, Andy.
Note the small channels down the tops of the booms are supposed to be there. Andy sanded his out. There is a note on the top of step 30 explaining this. This kit is fantastic!
Tamiya has done it again with another one of their fantastic model kits and I sure can't wait until November gets here so I can buy their 1/48 P-38 F/G Lightning! Thanks again for posting another one of your excellent videos & model kits built by you, Andy!
my complements to Andy for his excellent video for the TAMIYA 61120, 1/48-Lockheed P-38 F/G Lightning
OMG I never thought to layer the paint so the interior paint in on the bottom for the canopy. That's brilliant.
Now I need one! I started to build one of the older kits about 15 years ago, but it was such a terrible fitting kit that I gave up on it. The P-38 has always been one of my absolute favorite war birds!
Lol was just checking the channel to see if it was uploaded yet and got the notification for the video
One thing that would make this extremely helpful for following this video to put one together, would be having all the colors and other things, like the mark fit listed in a way that someone could at least write down. Just would help when buying the model to have a list of other things I need. But, it's also simple enough to just watch the video, pause, and find the stuff as you say.
You are good teacher for beginner.Thank you! Sir.
A big time tank guy here but,... really enjoyed the passion you had for this kit.
Best P-38 model out there. If I was still building models I would definitely have this one as soon as I could get my hands on one. Tamiya makes the best plastic kits you can possibly buy and this is no exception. Great video, terrific looking model and thank you for posting it!
Merci pour l'excellence de cette vidéo et l'incroyable qualité de ce kit.
Avec un peut de conversion, cette maquette est une bonne base pour faire celui de St Exupéry.
Thanks Andy, looks like another great kit from Tamiya expertly finished by yourself. Adverts are becoming a right pain in the butt but could listen to you all day long, cheers.
Nice job with detailing and beuitiful paint job!!
engine nacelle. This is a GREAT VIDEO Sir. I've been watching your videos and learning how to airbrush so a huge thank you for sharing! I thought that all WWII era aircraft was either zinc chromate or olive drab color for the gear wells. So neat, I learned something new.
My God, i was dreaming of seeing this kit coming together. YOU MAKE MY DREAMS COME REAL
Andy, if I may be so forward, You certainly seem like a modeling genius. I really enjoy your videos. Keep making them please.
Outstanding video and presentation.
Hi Andy. I got this kit today. Looking forward to building it. Great video. I like the way you show us how to get the best out of a kit with your advice and tips.
I've seen this Lightning at the Museum of WW2 Aviation in Colorado Springs. They have the museum, plus they do restorations, including White 33. The history of the plane is really neat, including the reunion of the plane with the former pilot just before he passed away.
Thanks for this video! Now i'm going to have to go out and get one of these P-38s; and I'm a Model Builder of mainly WW2 AXIS Aircraft - Naval & Armor subjects.
Had to keep pausing the video to clean drool off my screen 🤤 Cant wait to build this kit, thanks Andy 👍
Can’t wait to buy and build this kit, great vid as usual
Look forward to building this. Thank you for the step by step video 👍
Hey Andy, a great video as usual...a fantastic looking kit that you make so easy to assemble, the end result is amazing! Looks like I have to head to town and try to get my hands on one of these kits..........almost like finding gold at the end of a rainbow me thinks! Keep up the great work.
FYI I am trying to get my grandkids (6 and 9) into model making......I just need the 3 p's......patience, practice and persistence!
They have a replica P-38 up at March Air Museum in Riverside CA that's wonderful to look at, and a great museum to visit if you are ever in the area. Great build!
Shuddered when Andy said spend the next 2 hours applying the canopy masking. Canopy's are a real pest :)
Great build!!! Thank you for sharing.
I have one, this kit is the best in the business.
Astonishing craftmanship Andy. A joy to watch you build.
That plane is beautiful!
Very nice video, thank you. Awesome kit and awesome build. I also like it when the weathering is not too much, it often makes it more realistic according to the scale imo.
Hello Andy, your build was the reason to buy soon this P-38 from Tamiya, i think the first one what is perfect in all details. Greets from Germany, i was the one who asked you who was your idol when you start modelling, and what do you like more at modelling, asssembly the parts or painting and weathering, when you had been at MBK in Delmenhorst, Germany, thank you for your nice answers. Werner
Great video and a fantastic looking kit! Looking forward to building this.
Outstanding! I’m buying one!
Looks like a great kit. FYI, Tamiya have never precut their canopy masks. Thanks for posting
You did such a good job it looks like you just shrunk down a real P-38 Lightning good job👍
Awesome built Andy...as usual! Thanks!...
The p-38 might be the coolest plane ever made
it's great to have a kit that fits so well, makes building it so much easier.
The P 38 is a handsome plane. Fine looking build.
You know with the way Tamiya has engineered their recent 1/48th aircraft is top notch. I can now dream of a new tooled 1/48th B-17F. Heard rumours years ago they were looking at it. Can almost see it in my minds eye. Who knows?
Andy, Being a member of the USAF Museums, all model companies has got the Lockheed early P-38's interior colors wrong! The cockpits are O.D. not Interior Green! The gear wells are not Interior Green either they are underside color either Neutral Gray (Light Haze Blue for Recee planes F-4's or F-5's) or Bare Metal. Any questions on any USAAF aircraft just drop me a line.
What a resource! I'll keep that in mind for my P-38 build. It will be 1/72 and the gear will be retracted, but I'll do the cockpit OD.
@@jwrockets also if you do an early P-38J the seat and armor plate behind the seat are O.D. too, some late J's had the O.D. seats (but check your sources) and plate but all where painted Interior Green on the "L's and later models". All early P-38's landing gear struts and wells were painted the lower colors, this practice was also carried over to the later non-painted planes by just painting the struts the aluminum lacquer and leaving the wells bare metal without Zinc Chromate primers.
Another great source is IPMS Stockholm U.S. Aircraft interior colors during WWII, they cover even the U.S. Navy A/C
I can not find your contact info on your UA-cam page.
Great build. Starting on mine now, but I’m a bit confused regarding the canopy. I know the hinge side was altered on different versions of the p-38. You have chosen to side-hinge the canopy, but I thought the H version had aft hinges. Did you check this?
Always a great video, need to come by the shop and see what goodies you have this week!
Excellent video. Thank you.
One of the best looking models- and you have so many!
Double thumbs up Andy. Another fabulous build of what looks like the best kit ever. I'm right in the middle of building the latest Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk1 and I thought that was the best kit ever, this one looks even better. Love your videos.
Awesome build Andy. I wonder if the kit will come with some photo etch? I wish you had showed how to paint and weather the turbo super chargers. Lastly, I hope tamiya will make a 1/72 p-38 ad well.
ciao Andy and welcome back. another great build. I hope that the innovations introduced by Tamiya in building the molds for this aircraft will soon be used also for the other models, including tanks, so as to have an ever greater precision of construction and realism in the details. greetings from Italy. Alessandro
I want to build this kit for my son who is currently in US Army Helicopter Flight school. Is this the F and G variant, are there instructions available on how to make it a J variant or maybe what the differences are? The bird I want to make from him is the Richard Bong P38J. The only one of these that I have seen is the Monogram version and my understanding is they are still using the molds from the '60's with the raised panels and include plenty of extra flash. I have seen that Maj. Bong flew "several" versions of the P38 I was looking to do the all silver red spinner version.
@Andy's hobby headquarters. In a word Outstanding thanks Bruce
Such a faboulus fit !!!
Im cant wait to get this one love to see you do some more air craft some Japanese air craft
Thank you so much for sharing the build, absolutely love job.
Can't go wrong with a Tamiya
Sweet build!!! Great kit!!! Awesome aircraft!!!
Love your videos Andy .....wish the P-38 was 1/32 scale.
But great vid Andy
Carry on my friend!!!!
Fantastic looking P-38 Andy... lovely work mate. I have both the Hasegawa and Academy P-38 kits in the stash yet to be built.... but you've sold me on this kit. Well done!
Those "masks" for painting the cockpit are brilliant, they must be a new thing as none of my Tamiya kits had them, even when I mask off a cockpit with Tamiya tape there's always some paint that ends up on the canopy
Hey Andy, I just stepped by to tell you that I enjoy your channel very much. I love your enthusiasm and the way you explain evertything. You are a cool dude my dude! :)
Hi Nudzi! Thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate the kind words. I hope my enthusiasm inspires folks to keep modeling, but more importantly, enjoy the process. Thanks for watching.
Thank you great build.
Can not wait for this to be on sale you certainly nailed this one Andy what a fantastic kit by tamiya just superb Steve 🇬🇧
Great build (as always)! I've looked around on the net and can't find any pictures/clips of a P38 with radio aerials - I think your build is complete. You don't build enough planes (I know tanks are your first love), but the few videos I've seen of your planes are spectacular; I'd love to see you build another beauty from Ww2 - the de Haviland Mosquito, but whatever you do I know you'll keep up the good work!
Andy, that is an amazing video and you have done an amazing job. Although I have been modelling on and off for 50 years or so, I am still not very good and certainly still learning. I can honestly say that I learned a huge amount from your film so thank you! On to Tamiya - just wow! I have never seen a model fit like that, the edges so crisp...do you think they may have changed their manufacturing process, or perhaps the type of plastic used??
When you attached the tail to the booms, the join lines literally disappeared! Amazing!!
Thanks for watching! I couldn't agree more on this kit ... fit like a glove.
I have this kit and superglue. Could I not paint it green and paint different? Maybe like one that is gray? Could I save the painting for the end and is superglue enough? Also, should I do in flight or on the ground version? Should I do drop tanks
Another classic WWII fighter was long overdue from Tamiya: I'm so glad it finally became a reality last year. An ambitious subject and it looks like a stunning kit. Can we hope they will come out with a 1:32 version? That would be spectacular.
Now, how about a Hellcat, Tami? Or a Hurricane?
Lovely job, Andy. 👍🏻
Very nice build. Turned out great.
Love it, thanks.
With a detailed engine that would be the cherry on top
thanks form making!
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Always loved that aircraft
She is a good looking bird 👍👍
Great job! That's my favorite airplane ever!
Incredible!
Thank you for this post. I think Tamiya will sell many of these. I cannot justify buying it with the hoard I already have.
Audio is way better for the intro. Thank you.
Great video once again Andy. Keep them coming.
Great build as always
That looks like a must-buy kit! Need to let my local shop owner know! 😀
Nice model 😃
Thank you! It is a great kit.
Sweet, the P38 is my most favorite plane ever!
Could you show us how you painted the turbos. Great build.
"Shake and bake". Fantastic, I've been looking for a nice early P-38 to model the Red Bulls version.
Most WWII aircraft interiors called for zinc chromate green. You use interior green. Are they the same? Interior green seems a little lighter, not as harsh.
I misspoke, I actually used mission models zinc chromate on the cockpit.
As usual good job cant wait till Nov thanks Andy
Great work on a lovely kit Andy!
Awesome. Just like I thought.
Gotta love Tamiya 👍😉
Does the ball bearings come with the kit?
I have watched and enjoyed many of your excellent tutorials and this Tamiya kit looks incredible but, your there was a lot of editing on this tutorial which left me unsure about some areas of the build such as gluing some of the parts together and which glues you were using. Gluing the twin booms for instance, what glue did you use and did you apply it then put the two half’s together or did you just run fit the parts together and just run some Tamiya extra thin along the edge.
I used extra thin on all parts and the booms it was applied to both halves put together and a little extra down the seam .
Once more I am amazed by Tamiya quality and I'm wondering why I still haven't made a Tamiya kit
Be careful Mike.. they will spoil you. Once you build one, other kits will be a little frustrating : > ) I build the 1/32nd F4U-1A Corsair and it was a dream and fun to build.
Awesome job and Vid, Andy!👍🏻
wow looks pretty good!