Monogram 1.48 P-39

Nice job on a unique aircraft. Also, I build clean ones too, no need to apologize. They were all clean at one point in their life. Keep up the good work!

Max

Thank you, sir!

Beautiful finish! Not often that anybody does anything of an Aleutian subject. Quite a forgotten theater of war.

I forgot to mention that the tail decals are from the kit. I even hit them with Solvaset! The rest were from the spares to complete it. It's an Alaskan bird depicted in the kit.

Well, here she is. It's too clean, but I'm ok with it. I may go back and dirty it up later. The pictures make the olive drab look too green. I really enjoyed the build.

I've never been a fan of the P-39, and I probably never will, but the Monogram kit has been on my list to build since I read a build article in the 80's. There's a group of Monogram kits, including the P-40, P-61, P-38, B-17, etc, that every aircraft modeler should at least build one or two to gain an appreciation for them, not from the poorly maintained molds of today, but from the kits molded from further back. The combination of accurate shapes, good detail, ease of assembly and value just isn't seen today.

One of my favorite kits!  One thing this kit has that the newer Airacobra kits lack is a cannon that doesn't spin with the prop.  Have fun!

I don't know how many times I have built this kit. It is one of my favorites from when I was growing up. You are doing a great job on your Cobra.

Earlier this year I completed a 4-kit build of Airacobras, one of which was the old Monogram kit (a blue box release from the year of my birth that I acquired on eBay). The Monogram kit remains one of their best and most detailed, and it does stand up well to the others I built alongside it, an Accurate Miniatures and an Eduardo, which itself was simply the Accurate Miniatures mold spruced up with their Profipack detail sets.

lawdog114

Looking great.... You'll find that those white box Monogram kits have the nicest parts, primarily because the molds were new then. 40 years of use has taken its toll, especially in the P-40 and P-61. I have an original 1974 release P-61 which is just stunning in surface detail.

 

Dog is right. After a while the molds start to have issues. I built the 1/48 Monogram Voodoo and compared it to a recent Revell relese I got at HL and you could see the difference in some parts not fitting as good as the original Monogram issue. None the less, these kits have some real nice molded details and will look great once completed.

Mississippi

I'm sure you will do a great job on this oldie.

Looking great.... You'll find that those white box Monogram kits have the nicest parts, primarily because the molds were new then. 40 years of use has taken its toll, especially in the P-40 and P-61. I have an original 1974 release P-61 which is just stunning in surface detail.

That's a great build you're doing of one of the most unique aircraft from WWII.  It also happens to be one of my favorites!  I'll definately be following along this thread, this will be fun!

Toshi

That kit was really state o' the art back in 1969.  It's still a really good kit.  I built this one about 20 years ago.

It is a good kit, despite its age.  I remember when it came out and have built several and still have some waiting.

It was always one of my favorite WWII aircraft.

If your decals turn out to be ruined, I have some extra decals that would work, either from the kit or some after market.