Airfix – A55010 – Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II (Starter Set)

Description:

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II
(Starter Set)

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, an all-weather stealth multirole combat aircraft introduced in service in 2015. B variant is the short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) version, as employed by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Brand new kit tooled and released in 2023. The kit can be considered an easy to build kit with just 42 parts. As Starter Set, kit includes also two brushes, four paints and glue.

The kit has a good average detail, it’s a very recommendable kit for beginners and young modelers. Is not the more detailed F-35B 1/72 scale kit you can find, but an excellent kit in it’s category and many can find fun in it. Kit can be build in different configuration, flight or landing/take off.

The kit is designed to use the stand included in the box, an awful and very noticeable hole in the bottom fuselage part will be an odd for those looking for a different display.

The kit includes just one decal marking for the  No.617 Squadron RAF, on board of the HMS Queen Elizabeth when the F-35Bs entered service in 2021 for first time with RAF. The 617 Squadron is the famous Dambuster squadron.