BradG Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 In 1947, civil war looked imminent in Paraguay. President Higinio Morinigo sensed rebellion in the air and thus decided to bolster his air arm, as this consisted mostly of WW2 unarmed training aircraft. Open Civil War broke out on March 7th 1947, by this time a dozen surplus P-38J's with mercenary pilots and ground crew recruited in the US were on their way. Most of the former Paraguayan air force sided with the Communist rebels, but the hastily repainted P-38's served pro government forces well, shooting down most of the rebellions aircraft, while carrying out bombing and strafing runs on insurgent positions. By August 20th the rebellion had been violently put down. This kit is the old 1970's Revell mold. It's not a great model, I started it as just something to tinker on between projects and it had been sitting 95% complete for the last month. I did plan on doing a Cuban machine, but I decided against using a nice decal sheet on what is a pretty poor model. Thus, I invented this little story. The P-38 did not see action in the Paraguayan Civil War. BiggTim and LSP_Kevin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 nice work on the old girl BradG and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I love 38s, and great story! What scale is it? BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 I love 38s, and great story! What scale is it? It's the old 1970's 1/72 Revell kit BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Well, I like it despite my scale prejudice, cuz it's a Lightning!! BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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