1/48 Italeri F-22A Lightning

Gallery Article by Andrew Apostolopoulos on July 29 2009

 

The kit from Italeri (the same mold is sold from Revell as well), until almost one year ago was the only selection available in 1:48.

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Recently Academy released their version of the F-22, which raised the bar of quality significantly, relieving a lot of modelers from making the Italeri/Revell one.

I (at the time)  had to snap one of them, since no Academy F-22 was released yet. 

This kit is characterized by mistakes on the fuselage (mainly around the jet intakes), the bad quality of its engraved panel lines and detail made out of fantasy on the supplied open hatches.

I hope you like It

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Andrew Apostolopoulos

Photos and text © by Andrew Apostolopoulos