Hey, y’all. It’s going to be kind of a bummer the next two months as I get to miss an airshow and two area contests due to work. Well, gotta eat, right? Anyways, I have been piddling with this kit hoping to be at Huntsville, AL in September. Their theme involves building a kit that was originally released before 1976 to coincide with their 40th anniversary. Had a white box version with the nice instruction sheet. Easy kit with good detail. I am surprised that it hasn’t warped after all these years. I will try the original decals when I get to that point. 
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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’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.
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 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.
[Y] Beautiful finish! Not often that anybody does anything of an Aleutian subject.[t$t] Quite a forgotten theater of war.
Thank you, sir!
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
You have done a great job with this P-39, well done! And you show that it is a very good kit, too.
Excellent!!! I too have high praise for these Monogram kits. and I have the P-39 in a bag kit and a blue box (Confederate Airforce I think) that my wife found at a garage sale along with the Monogram Avenger for 2 buck a piece.
You made er look good and I wouldn’t worry about beating it up too much, I think it looks good the way she sits!
Really nice work on this bird. The decals look good, especially the roundels.
Nice clean build. I built a couple of these in my younger build em blow em up days
Nicely done. I, too, have an affinity for the P-39. I just think it looks sleek, like a small sports car.
Mississippivol;
I think you’ve shown that even OOB after all this time and the results are great . The early Monogram Birds have all come to life in my hands and I still have most of the later " Century Series " in stash, in doubles .
Now , the building of the B-17 , P-61 , P40 and some others were a real pleasure back then . I even have to include the B-25 and B-29 in here . The later ones ? well the age of the molds is showing . T.B.