ram3500-RCU,
For the price...it is a good sized model. I did all the wing loading caculations, and if you go to the twin forum, and read the post on this P-38, you will find the numbers. But in short it comes out to be the lightest wing loading of any current P-38 on the market. VQ which is the best in scale, has the hightest wing loading, with the KMP issue of the P-38 coming in second. Nitromodels will come in near 28 to 30 oz./sq. ft., which for a twin WWII fighter is very reasonable.

Your going to be a bit heavyer going electric, and if my memory serves me right, the electric version came out the heavyest of all the models built so far. I'm shooting for 15#...and not sure I can make that weight. The 12~12.5# shown on the box is unrealistic, and if you take the weight of the kit, then weigh out all that is going into the model, you will see getting this model under 12.5# is not a realistic figure. Most models have come out over 18#.

When I first reveived my kit, I sent a nice e-mail to Nitroplanes about issues I found with the kit. I'm not talking about the missing or warped parts, but the fact in how the airframe was assembled, the lack of provisions for retractable landing gear, and the two flap wing...not a four flap wing, but all their models have just two flaps no matter how the real aircraft were configured.

Good luck on your build,
Bobby of Maui