Die-cut vinyl masks for the cockpit glazing of the Bell P-39 Airacobra in 1:48 scale. They cover the glass from outside and from inside, and one set of national insignia masks plus supplementary decals is enclosed.
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The Airacobra was among the most unusual fighters of its day. The Allison engine sat behind the pilot's back, a long shaft ran forward under the cockpit floor to a reduction gear and a 37 mm cannon fired through the propeller axis. One did not get in by a canopy slid back but through side doors with a handle and a wind-down window, so the machine came across more as a sports car with wings. At great altitude the aircraft ran out of breath; over the Eastern Front, where flying was done low, it became on the contrary one of the most successful types delivered.
The pieces of this set are die-cut in thin self-adhesive vinyl film, and the difference from crepe tape shows at the very first spraying. The film yields to curved glass without creases, so no channel forms on rounded framing through which the paint could run under the mask. The cut edge stays smooth, whereas paper leaves fibers at the edge and with them a blurred line. A die-cut outline moreover follows the frame exactly; there is nothing to trace and nothing to try blind.
The order of work is simple: first the glazing, then the basic camouflage, and only at the end the insignia. The vinyl holds firmly enough that thinner-based paint does not creep under it, and yet it can be taken off without straining the joint.
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