Tamiya has provided images of sprues, decals and masks as well as a test build of their 1:48 scale Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II

Here are some of the first detailed images of our new Lockheed Martin F-35C Lighting II 1/48 scale model kit. This aircraft was built without paint, but outlined with a coat of our panel-liner to accent the immense amount of detail in this kit.

These are just some sample pictures. We have a large gallery of detailed pix on the site - you can see them here:.

Features of the kit include:

• Fuselage parts are newly molded excluding canopy and weapons bay doors parts.

• Fine recreations of Radar Absorbent Material (RAM) are molded into fuselage surfaces.

• Choose parts to recreate:

- Deployed or folded wingtips (Parts can be interchanged after assembly.)

- Deployed or stowed air fuel probe on the right side of nose

- Open or closed arresting hook door

- Open or closed canopy (Parts can be interchanged after assembly.)

- Open or close weapons bay doors.

- Deployed or stowed boarding ladder.

• Leading-edge and trailing-edge control surfaces are depicted down. Parts to render wheel chocks are also included.

• Features realistic renderings of pylons (F-35C's dedicated design) under wings and lower fuselage gun pod. (The gun pod is not attached if using RCS enhancers.)

• Features realistic renderings of the following sections:

- Nose under surface side details

- Y- shaped air intakes

- Weapons bay inside details including depictions of wiring

- Cockpit and landing gear bays

- Engine nozzle (5-piece design)

- Martin-Baker US16E ejection seat

- RCS (radar cross section) enhancers affixed to top and bottom sections (two for each, four in total) during basic training exercises, but not in live action or more complex exercises

• Choose whether to assemble the model in stealth mode (no external ordnance), air-to-air mode (missiles only), or beast mode (full ordnance).

• Includes various kinds of ordnance: AIM-9X Sidewinder x2, AIM-120C AMRAAM x2, GBU-12 Paveway II x4, and GBU-31 JDAM x2.

• Masking stickers for the canopy and a realistically recreated seated pilot figure with Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) included.

• Comes with decals to depict 6 marking options (4 from United States Navy and 2 from United States Marine Corps.)

61127 - Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II – 1:48

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