Russian P-39D, revell 1/32

[Silenoz]

Recently started this one (thx Lightning88)

The P-39 was an American aircraft from the 2nd World War. Special feature were the engine behind the pilot and the tri-cycle landing gear (I've though the second plane that incorporated this was the ME-262)

The Americans and Brits didn't use this plane a lot (except in the Pacific) due to lack of range for the Pacific area, or lack of power for the European area (It wasn't possible to include a supercharger, and at great height it had a serious lack of power. Due to the lend-lease pact with Russia a lot of aircraft were shipped to there, and the Russian pilots liked it very much. The battles there were fought at low to medium altitudes, and by removing the wingmounted .30 machineguns and some armor they enhanced the roll rate of the aircraft. It could hold it's own between the Messerschmitts and Focke Wulfs

I mean to build a Russian hunter, but don't know exactly which one.

The kit:

 

 

 

 

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The extra's:
pitot and gearshaft from Profimodeller

resin exhaust (fishtail): 


or round ones


Seat belts:


Metal landinggear:


CMK weaponbay:

 

Eduard Big Ed

 

Zotz Decals:




And the build (I'm not that far yet)

The flaps were soldered:

 

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And mated to the wings for mounting (still dry-fit because I will need to align the wings first with the hull)

 

 

I still need to fill the holes from the radiator exit and the wheel bays, and then some rivetting...

 

thx for looking and till next...

[Roy vd M.]

Great soldering job Silenoz, looks like this is going to be an impressively sized plane when finished. 

 

Do you plan on filling the gaps surrounding the wheel wells? If so, how will you ensure there won't be any cracks developing later on? 

[J.P.]

The flaps and flap bays look great. Is this a new mould, or a rebox or something?

[Nikolay Polyakov]

Great work, @Silenoz!

Now the wings looks highly-detailed 👍

 

Cheers! 😎

[spitfire]

Looking good, always nice to see a Soviet P-39 being modelled.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Silenoz]

thx for the comments:

 

@Roy vd M. : need to look for the size of the replacement gearbay covers first. Tend to fill the gaps with CA and sanding residue. or when the covers don't fit some plasticardstrip... still to determine

 

@J.P. : This a reboxing of the Special Hobby kit, they left the resin exhausts out, some sinkmarks, but seems otherwise pretty good at the moment... Found a build that corrected all the flaw (or a lot of them, don't know whether I'll take it that far... (see: https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=81364&hilit=airacobra&sid=f78e2d7692c460d96e0eb78439329804)

 

@Nikolay Polyakov : still need to do things on the wings. Can't find a lot of info on how the openings for the wing-mounted mg's were closed up

 

@spitfire: doesn't always have to be a star and bar...