P-39N Airacobra - Kitty Hawk - 1/32 - 21 GIAP - Col SOBOLEV - RFI

[Furie]

Hi everyone,

 

Today I’m happy to show you my Kitty Hawk P-39.

I decided to go with a pretty colorful paint scheme, depicting a VVS P-39 flown by Colonel Sobolev of the 21st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (21 GIAP) in May 1943.

 

 

 

 

This Kitty Hawk kit is definitely not the easiest one to build.

I had to stay really focused throughout the assembly to avoid mistakes, and even then I almost got caught out by the nose landing gear.

All the paints are from MRP.

The six red-and-black stars and the serial number were painted using masks that I designed and cut with my Silhouette Cameo.

 

A huge thank you to my friends Gilles Peysson, Jean-Marc "Jimvit," and Alexandre "AlexGRD" for all their help, especially with the decals, masks, and additional reference photos of this aircraft.

 

Special thanks as well to @LSP_Kevin for his fantastic WIP thread, which was a tremendous help during the build.

 

And I can’t forget @Thunnus, who was a huge inspiration with his salt weathering technique, as well as the detailed explanations he takes the time to share about this rather tricky process.

 

I hope you’ll enjoy my P-39, and I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments on this rather unusual warbird.

And here’s the link to my P-39 WIP thread.

 

And now, on to the photos!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 15 by Furie

[LSP_Kevin]

Spectacular, Denis! Easily the best build of this kit I've seen.

Kev

[Maxpapaie]

Splendide résultat! Une finesse absolue dans la finition qui mélange plusieurs techniques parfaitement maîtrisées!

Mention particulière pour le chipping subtil!

[Mal_Belford]

Followed this build.

 

Very very builded, painted and very nice weathering indeed, and one of the best P-39 in 1:32 ive seen.

[MikeC]

Excellent model Denis, well done 

[s00ntir]

The result is impressive and inspiring. Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

[red baron]

😍

whaouu

[Michael931080]

Beautiful work on the P-39.

[Martinnfb]

This is one of the best builds of this kit out there.  Smooth as silk.

 

Cheers

Martin 

[Jim Barry]

Just superb! I enjoy your builds.. so much hard work and hardly a kink at all you did not work around and nail it down. 

[jimvit]

Wow, my dear Denis, it's truly magnificent! The result is incredible.

All these textural effects are simply superb and so well executed.

The balance, so delicate to achieve, is spot on.

Well done, my friend!

👊👊👊

[DugyB]

Stunning result there ol chap, going to bookmark this and Kevs builds. You’ve made me indulge my curiosity and think more about mine, love the final result. 🫡

[Kagemusha]

Fantastic work Denis, you really have brought the Tamiya quality, kicking and screaming, out of the kit, really inspiring, with the kit up in the loft, waiting...

[TankBuster]

Awesome work again, Cheers Bob.

[Thunnus]

Bravo Denis!  So much to look at and notice... true attention to detail.