One of the fighters sent to the RAF through the Lend-Lease program was the P-39 Airacobra, which in the United Kingdom was known as the Airacobra Mk I, and although it was to begin being delivered in early 1941, Their reception was delayed when the first units of the batch were requisitioned by the USAAF for use in the desperate fight in the Pacific, so it was not until the end of that year that they began to arrive, already painted in the new Gray and Green scheme. .
The first unit to be equipped was the 601 Squadron "County of London", of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, an old unit of young Reserves with a taste for flying, and who were enrolled in some of the most expensive universities, so which was known as the "Millionary's mob".
The Airacobra proved not to be up to the needs of the RAF and was practically immediately declared unfit for service and handed over to the Russians, so these aircraft were shipped in a convoy to Murmansk and painted with the red star, sometimes only with its English codes obliterated with a single layer of paint.
The model is from Airfix, what better than a British model to represent an English plane? The paint is El Viejo Marino, all the decoration is by brush.
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