In a move that should please Pacific Theatre fans, the Czech firm has reissued its 1/48 Bell P-400 ProfiPACK, as CHRIS CLIFFORD reports.
The original 1/48 P-39 Airacobra from Eduard – in P-400 guise – was first issued in 2000 and the tooling has been adapted many times since to represent different sub-types. The P-400 version resurfaced on several occasions, lastly in 2015 as part of a special Guadalcanal Dual Combo. However, it is now available again with the same five liveries offered in its 2019 ProfiPACK boxing. These are all Pacific Theatre machines operating in New Guinea and the Solomons.
Above: It might be 23 years old, but Eduard's Airacobra tooling is still impressive.
If you’re a P-39 neophyte, P-400 was the designation for Airacobra Mk.I airframes destined for the RAF, but instead were absorbed by the United States Army Air Forces, to help fight the Japanese. The P-400 was mainly based on the P-39D, but eschewed the 37mm cannon for a 20mm Hispano and swapped the .30 cal wing machine-guns for .303s – while two .50 cal guns high in the nose were retained. The airframe also had 12-stub exhausts, rather than six-stub units usually seen on P-39 variants.
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