Arma Hobby – 70049 – Cactus Air Force Deluxe Set (F4F-4 Wildcat and P-400/P-39D Airacobra over Guadalcanal)

Description:

Model set with two full unassembled plastic model kits in 1/72 scale. One model is a Bell P-39 Airacobra U.S. WWII fighter aircraft and the other is a Grumman F4F Wildcat U.S. WWII carrier based fighter aircraft, both previously released by Arma Hobby.

Kit includes plastic parts for both kits as well as 3D printed parts with extra detail as follows:

F4F-4 Wildcat Accessories:

• Seat with seatbelts
• undercarriage retracting system chains
• exhaust tubes
• external 0,5-inch gun barrels
• bomb racks
• two 100 lbs bombs
• magneto spark ignition wiring ring
• throttle and undercarriage retracting levers

P-39D/P-400 Airacobra Accessories:

• Seat with seatbelts
• two variants of the exhausts
• 37 mm cannon barrell
• 20 mm cannon barrell
• fuselage machine gun butts with the cocking levers next to the instrument panel
• two small levers to the cockpit
• wing machine guns barrels

Kit contains paint mask for both kits and a decal sheet with 8 markings, 4 for each type of aircraft, focused in the Guadalcanal campaign (between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943).

Markings:

• P-400 Airacobra „white 13” „Hells Bell”, BW151, 67FS/347FG, pilot Lt. Robert M. Ferguson, Guadalcanal, August-November 1942.
• P-39D-2 Airacobra „white 12” „Beth”, Cpt. Paul Bechtel, 12FS commander, Guadalcanal, December 1942.
• P-400 Airacobra „white 12”, BW156, pilot Lt. Richard Johnson 67FS/347FG „Fancy Nancy”, Guadalcanal August-September 1942.
• P-39D-1 Airacobra „yellow 56” 41-38400, 68FS/347FG, Guadalcanal, December 1942. Piloting this aeroplane Lt. Vernon Head of 67FS performed a bombing attack over New Georgia.
• F4F-4 Wildcat „black 29”, pilot Lt. Samuel Folsom, VMF-121, Guadalcanal. Piloting this aeroplane Sam Folsom shot down two G4M1 Betty bombers on 12th November 1942.
• F4F-4 Wildcat „white 2”, pilot Mjr. Marion E. Carl, VMF-223, Guadalcanal, February 1943.
• F4F-4 Wildcat „black F-12” BuNo. 5192, pilot Lt. James „Pug” Southerland II, VF-5/USS Saratoga. On 7th August 1942, this aeroplane downed the first Japanese bomber over Guadalcanal before Saburo Sakai himself shot it down in epic lonely combat against a flight of “Zeros”.
• F4F-4 Wildcat „white 19” BuNo. 03417, pilot Lt. Stanley W. „Swede” Vejtasa, VF-10/USS Enterprise. During the Santa Cruz Battle on 26th October 1942 Vejtasa shot down two dive bombers and five torpedo aeroplanes in one sortie.