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Lockheed P-38 Lightning Gallery CD-ROM                         
By Richard Marmo
Scale Publications, 2003
$19.95 plus Shipping

Guest Review By Chris Banyai-Riepl
 
This latest title from Scale Publications takes a look at the P-38 Lightning, including the XP-58 Chain Lightning. The format is simple to navigate and quickly brings the viewer to the meat of the CD, the photos. The table of contents breaks things down by aircraft type, with each section having any number of photos (the more popular types obviously having more photos). In addition to the photo pages, there are various documents and a serial number list.

For those interested in artwork, the CD also includes several paintings by Tony Weddel. These provide a colorful portrayal of the P-38 that nicely complement the photo sections. Other artwork included on the CD is a separate page of nothing but P-38 nose art. This is a very nice addition to the CD, with details on many P-38 nose art that are not often seen. My only complaint is that the large sized images could be a bit larger to show more detail, especially with the nose art pages.

With over 350 photos on this one CD, this makes a great single source for P-38 resource material. The simple navigation ensures that you will find appropriate images quickly, and there should be plenty of new material for modelers wanting to do something a little different with their next P-38 kit.
The CD-ROM is designed for the Windows operating system, but Mac users should not have much of a problem viewing it either (although the autorun feature may not work). My thanks to Scale Publications for the review sample.