**** DONE: GB-49 1/48 P-38M Lightning - WW2 Night Fighter

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Finally got the nose smooth enough for black paint and rescribed the panel lines for the gun doors. Looking better, almost time to add the booms!
 

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Looking at the lower wings the dive flaps that were standard on the P-38L (which were converted into -M's) were just raised lines with a few rivets. Luckily I had a leftover wing from an Academy L kit and they gave nice thick dive brakes. I cut one off and vacuformed 2 copies on my old Mattel vacuform machine. After trimming and sanding the circle around the fuel pump it looks much better.
 

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For anyone working on the Monogram/Revell Lightning be sure to sand the words off of the bottom of the horizontal stabilizer!
 

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Attaching the booms tonight, fore and aft all fits squarely, there will be small gaps to fill where the booms attach to the wings but not near as bad as the nose. Holding it in my home made P-38 jig, made to hold the Academy one I'm also working safely without damaging the metallic paint. You can guess which other one I'm doing as a couple of parts are still resting on the jig!
 

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Looking good, and those joints should be easy enough to fill and blend in.

Andy, you don't really think that, surely ......................... ( awaits relevant "Airplane" movie response !!)
Geo, the good / bad news is, the original Monogram Helldiver kit, with the same mould tools as the 1997 release, but with the company registration mark changed on your example,, actually dates from the early to mid 1960's - I remember building one around 1968/69 and, like Andy's, it had wobbly wings, which I eventually cemented in the folded position.
 
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