Very, very nice build! I can't help but remember the muffled throated roar of the Allision V-12's of the P-38 "Scatter Brain Kid" back in the the early 70's. Unfortunately it was fatally crashed in Oct. of 1974. I worked in the same hangar it was kept and heard many a ground runup and take offs and landings. I have this kit in my stash, actually 2! I first saw this Lightning in June of 1968 the day after it was flown in to Abbeville, La with a photo mapping nose and painted up in the faded crimson markings of "YIPEE" THE 5,000th P-38 built. It was completely restored by Paul Fornet Air Service in Lafayette, La. over the next year and flew in these markings about May of 1969. The owner was Revis Sermon who flew a P-38 in these marking in the North African campaign I believe.
