1/48 Eduard Bell P-39L Airacobra

Gallery Article by Ralph Emerson "Shonen Red" Dabao on Nov 18 2009

 

This is Eduard's P-39L Airacobra in 1/48 scale, built entirely out of the box.  I made a P-39 way back before from Accurate Miniatures (an Eduard rebox) so I can say I had some experience with this kit.

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What differs this kit from Accurate Miniature's offering is the ton loads of goodies such as PE's, express mask and the necessary weight to keep this plane on it's gears (I didn't notice this plane to be a tail sitter when after I placed all of the gears on my older P-39Q from Accurate Miniatures). Building this kit was a breeze, everything fits except for the problematic gap between the fuselage and the wings. After puttying and sanding, everything was fixed. One of the hard parts building this kit is the amount of PE needed to detail the cockpit. Around 10-15 parts just for the instrument panel and around 10 PE for the seat alone. PE experience highly needed.

As I had bought the limited edition "Eduard P-39L/N Airacobra in the MTO", the box contained two kits with 6 different markings. Stay tuned for the next P-39 that I'll be posting here on ARC. 

Thanks for reading

Ralph Emerson "Shonen Red" Dabao

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Photos and text © by Ralph Emerson "Shonen Red" Dabao