Omask 1:48 P-39 Airacobra — wheel bay plugs of flexible foam, shaped for the Hasegawa and Hobby 2000 kits. It is not a kit — it is a masking accessory, and you have to have the model.
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A set of plugs of flexible foam shaped for the wheel bays of a P-39 Airacobra model in 1:48 scale. It is NOT a kit or an aircraft model — it is a masking accessory for the kits from Hasegawa and Hobby 2000, which you have to have.
You paint the wheel bay first — and then you have to mask it while the model is sprayed from the outside, or you will ruin the finished interior with overspray. Masking a deep, irregular cavity with tape and cotton wool is a nuisance and it does not seal anyway. A foam plug goes into the bay, compresses and seals it by itself — it does not have to fit to hundredths of a millimeter like a hard 3D print and it holds without glue. Once the paint is dry you take it out. It also protects the bay from dust and sanding slurry and it is reusable.
The Bell P-39 Airacobra is among the most unusually arranged fighters of the Second World War. Its engine sat behind the pilot, in the middle of the fuselage; the propeller was driven by a long shaft running under the cockpit, and a cannon sat on the propeller axis. You did not climb into the cockpit under a sliding canopy either, but through automobile-style doors in the side. The Airacobra also had a nosewheel, tricycle landing gear — at a time when the classic tailwheel arrangement ruled among fighters. That also means an entirely different layout of the wheel bays than on contemporary fighters, and therefore different masking. American pilots found the P-39 unsuited to high altitude, but in the Soviet Union, under Lend-Lease, it became the machine of the top aces — it fought low over the ground, where its qualities came into their own.
A modeling accessory. The model, paints and glue are not included in the package.
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