1:48 masks for the cockpit framing of the Brewster Buffalo, cut into self-adhesive film including counterparts for the inner side of the glass. The set is listed to the Special Hobby kit.
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The Buffalo was the first monoplane the US Navy accepted as a carrier fighter. Its short stubby fuselage with a radial engine and a wing at mid-height earned it a nickname that caught on more than its official name. The last naval version received stronger armor and more fuel, and by that it gained so much weight that it lost both agility and rate of climb. At the Battle of Midway the aircraft of US Marine Corps aviation paid for it with heavy losses.
The contrast with Finland is interesting. There a lighter export variant without the additional armor served and in the hands of experienced pilots it did outstandingly well for several years. The difference lay not in the design but in the weight and in the way the machine was used, which makes the Buffalo one of the most frequently cited examples of how a clumsy modernization can harm an aircraft.
The framing of the Buffalo is angular and divided into small fields, which when masking by hand means a great many small strips. Cut shapes shorten that work and, above all, unify the width of the frames across the whole cockpit. The film is applied to degreased glass, gone over with the edge of a toothpick and taken off after spraying. The result is a cockpit that looks like a glazed structure, not like a transparent piece of plastic with lines painted on it.
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