P-38 Lightning

This is probably the third or so P 38 I've built, because over the years all the others were destroyed. It is my favorite fighter from WWII. This version from Academy was very nice, even though, due to shipping, the rear landing gear on both sides was broken, so I had to replace it with metal landing gear. The only metal landing gear I found was for the Monogram kit and I had to do some cutting and stuff to even make them fit, but in the end I think it worked out OK, but I am not sure if the front landing gear is still too tall, it seems that the tail is pretty close to the ground. The decals are terrible, almost all of the bigger decals like the roundels and the stripes on the tail and fuselage cracked and peeled from the model after about 2 months. This is after I used both microsol and microset when I put them on and after I noticed the peeling I used microsol again and this is the first model where they did not really work. Even though the decals looked really great on the paper, I am going to have to strip half of em off and replace them with new ones.