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This was not surprisingly the first ever P-39 kit I built, over 40 years ago. I will be building the most recent rebox (A01039). The first box-art (presumably by Roy Cross) is my own scan: Curiously, both the box-art and paint and decal guides from A01039 portray an earlier version with the integral .30 wing guns. So accurate is this mis-representation that the vertical staggering of the guns is shown as it was on the real thing. My preference is for the USAAF subject. Red Air Force P-39Qs often had the .50 under-wing guns removed, which would require significant extra work that I don't care for.- 20 replies
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Originally issued in 1969, this kit has been regularly reissued and repackaged over the years. Contrary to what Scalemates may have you believe, the Canadian bubble canopy was not included in the original tooling, or else it must have been temporarily removed from some boxings. It is included in the most recent A01054 T.10 boxing, see below. I have built this kit once as the Canadian version, not knowing or caring about the differences between Canadian- and UK-built aircraft, as seemingly Airfix itself didn't. With 7 more in the stash, I could probably build any of the subjects offered by Airfix - or an Irish Air Corps aircraft. I have a Max Decals sheet with markings for both the "old" 2-colour boss or "new" 3-colour boss. But I might just build a black T.10 from the box. Other than adding the anti-spin strakes fitted to UK-built aircraft, I will build the kit "as is".
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Now here's a kit I never built in my youth. I first bought it in the late 1980s, but the kit I am building is a later boxing with better quality decals: A version of the Roy Cross artwork, which alas I never got a hold of: My two kits: First issued in 1971, time was when this was the only A-26 kit in town (to my knowledge), but now of course we have the Italeri kit, of which I have 3, including a B-26K Counter Invader. Should ICM get around to scaling down it's 1/48 family, then that will move the goalposts again. My initial thought was to build the Korean War A-26C "Monie", but research on this aircraft is giving me second thoughts. It's not that Korean War A-26s were painted gloss black instead of matt as per the instructions, nor that this aircraft had the upper remote controlled turret. No, it's that the under-wing stores were usually (always) two banks of 7 HVARs. 14 spare HVARs, all the exact same? Maybe when I've bought enough of the new Eduard P-51, which generously includes 10 per kit.
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