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What about making the J an F/G appearance wise and the L a J (remove airbrakes) the L-Late can be the L-5 Lo or whatever, I don't know anything about this but as for new aircraft/FM etc.. I would think a visual mod would be easier to accomplish.

It can be an idea, if you mean on the sparing time thing... or if only for the eye candy.
Remember the latest J model, P-38J-25-LO already had the "Dive Flaps" (to use the correct denomination) and the landing light moved from under the wing to the leading edge, and the only way to visually differentiate it from an L-1 was by the serial number.

So the L (or L-1-LO for pinpoint accurance) can be changed (only for denomination) to P-38J-25-LO.

If left unchanged, the actual J we have in the sim, without Dive Flaps, is to be considered as a P-38J-15-LO, due to its flat frontal windscreen. ( P-38J-5-LO and first P-38J-10-LO batches had the curved windshield of the earlier variants).

IMHO, as here at AAA we actually do have some really outstanding people that are fully capable to make a "new" P-38 with the necessary slots, why not to give a chance to a P-38F, a P-38G and a P-38H ? (And of course, a M and even a K)?

If we have so many Bf.109 and Spitfire variants, why not the P-38? The more, the merrier!

Or you really want the Lerche stealing all the glory? :roll:

I beg your pardon for my "putting the dot on the i", but as a scale-modeller with 38 years in the "business" I'm afraid this is now a kind of an obsession... :oops: