From Colin Strachan, owner of Freightdog Models.
A couple of years ago I produced a ‘swing wing’ conversion for the Airfix Lightning F.6 kit in 1/72 scale, a paper project to enhance the original design. This wonderful build took my resin wings and mated them to the Sword Lightning T.5 kit, which was also significantly scratch converted into a Phase III Lighting, itself based on a Naval VG proposal. I can’t remember the modellers name, but I just came across this picture and wanted to share it. The VG wing sets is still available, although designed for the Airfix kit, I’ve seen it fitted to other Lightning kits including Matchbox and Sword ones, with the application of a little modelling skill, as illustrated here!
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