The Airacobra Channel at iModeler (37 articles)

The Airacobra Channel at iModeler

Bell P-39 Airacobra

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1/48 Bell P-39L Airacobra, 81st FG North Africa

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on December 27, 2020
in Aviation — 9 Comments

Built in 2015. Eduard kit, painted with Gunze and Tamiya paints, the Azure is from Model Master. Some discussion about the camo paints of these planes. As far as I know they were initially built for and delivered to the Brits but not liked the[...]

P-39 Airacobra Kitty Hawk

by Artur Domanski on August 19, 2020
in Aviation — 11 Comments

Another model goes to my shelf. This time, a design that appears at competitions quite sporadically, namely the P-39 Airacobra. The model itself is quite nice, but I added Eduard plates, HGW belts, Master barrels and Eduard exhaust pipes. Markin[...]

Eduard 1/48 P-400 Airacobra

by Tom Bebout on May 12, 2020
in Aviation — 17 Comments

Latest off the bench is Eduard's kit of the P-400 Airacobra. With lots of spare time, because of the Covid-19 shelter in place orders, I've used this time to reduce some of my stash. Lots has been written about this kit as well as why it's calle[...]

1/48 Scale P-39 Airacobra.

by Rodney J. Williams on April 11, 2020
in Aviation — 7 Comments

This is "eduards" 1/48 scale model kit. I built it right out of the box and used the kit decals. I added Waldron belt buckles with some home made paper straps. I used different colors of Tamiya paint. I liked the model so well that I bought two[...]

Another 1/48 Scale F8F-2 Racing Bearcat #10.

by Rodney J. Williams on March 7, 2020
in Aviation — 6 Comments

My first photo show's a black & white photo that I took out of Reed Kinert's air racing book. The paper back book had a red cover, but I don't remember its' name. I just cut out dozens of photos and scanned them into our Apple p.c. using a[...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Airacobra Mk.I

by dale travis on January 31, 2019
in Aviation — 29 Comments

Used Ultracast seat, Vector .30 cal. gun barrels, Eduard Zoom cockpit and some resin from the Aires set. 20 mm canon barrel from brass tubing. Color of Eagles and Pollyscale paints used as well as Tamiya weathering powder. Note on the paint s[...]

Eduard 1/48 P-39Q

by Tom Rodgers on October 19, 2018
in Aviation — 23 Comments

Eduard 1/48, P-39Q, 42-19995, CPT William A. Shomo, 71st TRS, 82nd TRG, New Guinea, 1944. CPT (later MAJ) Shomo was nicknamed the “Flying Undertaker” because he actually trained and worked as a mortician in Pittsburgh before the war. He was awar[...]

1/72 MPM( Academy) P-39D

by Geoffrey Abreu on July 2, 2018
in Aviation — 13 Comments

This is the MPM boxing of the Academy P-39 kit. MPM provides a different decal sheet for the kit. I added Eduard seat belts, stainless steel tubing for the cowl guns, drilled out the other guns, Aires main wheels an reworked the nose gear a bit.[...]

Battle of Kasserine Pass Group Build: 1/48 Eduard P-39L Airacobra

by Tom Bebout on June 1, 2018
in Aviation — 19 Comments

My last last contribution to this group build. Thanks again to David Thomas for stating this GB, it's been a lot of fun and the selections presented here by fellow iModelers have been truly inspiring. Great historical narratives and some excelle[...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Scale P-39

by Terry Schuler on March 10, 2018
in News — 16 Comments

This is the wonderful Hasegawa P-400 / P-39 kit (depending on what box art you buy, the kits are the same, other than decals). The kit was a lot of fun to build, it goes together without any problems and with a few added details, especially in t[...]