Eduard 1/48 scale P-400 "Cactus Airforce" | Full Build 

Enjoyed your build! This was right amount to show. Some guys show every little detail and their video goes way over an hour. Now, if there is a tricky detail and you’ve found a solution then put that in but leave out standard items like landing gear, etc. Each model can have its own quirks which is nice to know about before wading in. I’m just getting back into scale models after a 65 year break, stopped at 12. I’m focused on 1/48 WW2 aircraft Pacific Theater both Allied & Japanese but did build a 1/375 attack transport ship. Used Revell USS Montrose kit to build the USS Effingham, PA-165 had to get other decals, for my 96 yr old Great Grandfather-in-law who served on her the last year of the war. He was really tickled and explained which was his boat he used to transport Marines to beach head. Not many of his generation left!

Great video I am a big fan of the P-39 and p-400 airacobra. I really enjoy your building videos . I have a couple of the Eduard kits but I just started the old Monogram P-39 kit. Keep bringing these great videos thank you.

Excellent build and video. Great result on this P-400. I’m building the 1969 Monogram P-400. Not as good as this Eduard but still an enjoyable kit with cool nose gun bay details.

Great build Brett. I love the Frankenstein-esque feel and look of this. 🎉🎉

Great builds and tips Hammerhead! Thanks for showing and sharing your journey!👍🏾

absolutely beautiful, buddy

One of my favorite WWII kits and (from memory) the first kit Eduard produced that really catapulted them into the top-five aircraft kit manufacturers. My first one back in 2011 was a P-400 in Soviet markings, painted right over the later RAF Dk Grn/Ocean Grey/Med Sea Grey camo. Wonderful work on this one, and now subscribed for more of the same. Cheers from NZ.

Colour modulation, shading and weathering is excellent!!

Absolutely splendid. Very inspiring. thanks !

Did this one myself many months back. In spite of having the same minor issues as you mentioned it was still highly enjoyable.

Great build. Really like the look of the different camo.

Love the history and the build. Looks like you had a blast.

Very cool airplane great story never heard about that particular plane. Flawless execution.

Another awesome build, my dude! Such an interesting painting and weathering session. I’ll have to watch it again 😎

Happy my country could aid your's in the air defense of guadalcanal

I personally love watching the painting and less of the building. Great work, true inspiration.

following this built was fantastic. Thanks.

Great work on a fun objekt. Like tha way you speak through the work, it allmost works just listning. 👍😊

This is one of my favorite aircraft types as it was built in my hometown ish area. The control tower from where they would launch down the boulevard is still there. Curtiss- Wright p40s too

Wonderful build. Thank you.

This was a fascinating video. I can see why you were excited about this model. A great subject. As for the length and content of the video, the issue with longer videos are what that will do to you RU-vid rating and the answer has been addressed in a number of ways by other channels, the main two seem to be Patreon for in depth techniques or a second RU-vid channel with full videos so people can choose to head over there and watch the bits they want.

Outstanding as usual, feels like a broken record to say so but it's true. You're brave to go at those decals with a paper towel!

Great narration thank you and you made an A+ build look so easy

Nice build

Ooooh...Errrr missus, nice Franken-Cobra Brett. More seriously though, what a brilliant idea to make it into a model of a real live oddity, (beautifully done by the way) everyone who sees your model will want to hear the story behind it, I did. I doubt the plane survived the War, the poor old girl must have had one heck of a rough ride, hence your extensive ageing etc. So, thanks for sharing an enjoyable build with us, it did sound like you had fun with it. My regards.......

Nice! I think your choices of what you show us is fine.

Great stuff. I really like the flat very dirty, worn pain scheme of well used aircraft, both Props & jets.

Love it! I always find the oddballs more interesting. I'm currently finishing the Eduard F4F-4 Wildcat. Just finished decals (new style) and will be doing oil and acrylic weathering this week. Peace and love.

I've been tempted to buy one of these. Thanks for posting.

This is really cool 👍 Love the mishmash of the paint scheme

Excellent build!

For content, I really appreciate the detailed explanation of the approach to weathering. I am attempting to refine this process and have been trying various approaches. What I find particularly useful is watching how you handle oil paint weathering compared to what I just accomplished on one of my own camouflage builds. I usually use the same approach as yourself, i.e. post shading the paint as I paint the model. On my latest effort, I tried using oil paint weathering only and found the fading aspect of that to be not what I ultimately thought I could achieve. Looking at how you approached this, i.e. lightening the base colors and then using oil paints to darken the panel edges, seems the superior approach and I will be using this approach next time. This is what I really love about the Internet, this ability to see how others tackle the hobby so that I can learn from this. I appreciate this enough that I in turn find it easy to want to share what I've learned when the opportunity arises. Thanks for presenting your work and techniques in a friendly and non confrontational way. Finally, while I appreciate reviews, I have found that this tends to be the first type of videos that are released and there are numerous examples of these, especially on new kits. I think that the tape up or build reviews to be more useful in general than the "What's in the box" reviews, although that does have its value. I understand the need for new content, I am struggling to get something going myself on RU-vid. Anyway, thanks again for sharing. Excellent work on this P-400.

really enjoyed your build walkthrough. Much appreciated and very cool subject.

Amazing work as usual. Really enjoy both your RU-vid and Instagram content.

What a beauty! Great skills!

Great build and vid. Love the P-400 as the those in the Pacific called it. A P-400 is nothing but a P-40 with a 0 on its tail :)

Lovely job

Great job and a very nice model and you have an excellent narrative as well. Greetings from Ensenada México

Navy was there on Guadalcanal. VF-11 "Sundowners" flying F4F-4s from 'Fighter One' (not Henderson Field) and VB-11 with SBDs.

I have a monogram P-39 and P-63. I am going to try a lot of these tricks to make sure it is better than I would have been before.

Love the build. Pure awesomeness 👍🏼

Nice job, Brett! You always do a solid build.

Nicely done👍👍

Great job!

Awesome build! I love the unique scheme.❤

A very unique aircraft build. Excellent job!

great work!

Looks great!

Well done. 👏👏👏👏

Love your channel. Any scratch building and detail work is a good add to your videos IMO.

I really like the paint job you did with this plane, and the overall build was great.

gran trabajo, original avion,bravo

The same as most model builders,details,MORE detailing!!!

That's a really nice build......interesting history and an eye-catching camo (if that's not an oxymoron 🤔). Yep; enjoyed that 👌🏻👏🏻👍🏻 I'm sure that, if there was something interesting or out of the ordinary in the wheel bays etc, you'd put them in the video, so do as you see fit. Your vids are excellent whatever.....

Hello mr. Hammer. A decent job you did handling that kit.a nice little gem you have created.also great job doing that riggin.i really like your narration.you are a shiny beacon in the modelling world.i would like to give more than 1thumb up.but i cant.thats a pain in the ass.thank you for sharing.with best regards and sticky greetings from Brandenburg/germany.your fellow modellmate.christian

So cool. 🛩

I recently completed the same model with other masking type. I definitely recommend more weights in front- use all the placement options you have

Very nice fighter aircraft. ❤😊🛩️🛩️🛩️🛩️😀😁🤩💯🤗

Excellent build video as usual! My hands won't allow me the control to do exhaust staining with a airbrush anymore, so I use pastels and they seem to work almost as well as the airbrush. As far as your comment about what to include I think you have reached an excellent balance. One thing though for me is properly painting exhaust manifolds , perhaps you could give more information on that subject please.

Excellent model build, especially the weather job !

I'm sold, and pretty sure that one of my local hobby stores has the weekend edition in stock, so I guess the stash may get an addition. I'm all for longer videos should you decide to include them even if it's only occasionally, its coming up winter here so more time to spend on youtube😉

First place build out, I'm an old timer re-entering the hobby and been have overwhelmed with all the paints and techniques used in today's world. You mentioned "content" for videos and or time line, that's good. I'm thinking, if not a modelers secret list, of materials to reference. Of course that choice comes with your skill level, however, there are so many manufacturers - Im looking at Vallejo and Tamiya paints and with no hobby store rely on internet, it would be great to mix and match better than I can now. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

As usual, another great model! Where do you keep them all when completed? Do you have a huge case? Shelves? An entire room dedicated to your craft? Inquiring minds want to know.

Awesome build!. Where did you get the Flury wash? I am having a hard time finding it.

This is a really nice build, I really like it. I never knew the history behind it either, as I knew my country "loaned" a few P-400's, but I didn't think they were that few in number! This is purely speculation on my part, but were they meant for scout/ spying purposes, or just inter-country trials to see if they would live to various standards, before being pressed into service? I hope we get more unique builds and hopefully something like a Gundam, or a Dreadnaught at some point=)

I have found for all the seems and gap filling uv resin has been the best and fastest way to fill gaps.

Great. Primer looks so smooth. Is it vallejo or something else ?

I remember Shep Paine stating one reason his kit building dropped off so dramatically was the hobby turned into work, so if you're not having fun in the hobby we will eventually lose you and your skills. Show us what you want to and skip what you feel you need to just keep having fun with it!!

Did you ever see any warping in the lower section of the left wing? I've started two of these (older boxings) and both had that warp to the point I stopped building.

Very nice build of this older Eduard kit. The asymmetric paint scheme makes it a bit special with your realistic weathering. I’d like to correct you about the decal. The sheet is the “newer” type as can be seen from the 2023 copyright.

Wouldn’t this technically be a P-439? Also I love the idea of grafting various mismatched parts to create a complete vehicle. It’s scrappy, and I love it

Where do you purchase the Flory wash in the states?

Hello how many hours does it take you to make this model in 1/48 scale excluding drying time

Кстати, читал, как их на театре Тихого океана собирали прямо из ящиков на аэродромах базирования. Были проблемы кое-какие.

Good build as always. But there is an error there: the left door on P-39 does not open easily and had not being used for onboarding/offboarding for the pilot. That's because of throttle and trimmers controls were on it (there were no place for them elsewhere with such an unusual cockpit layout). The left door was normally just jettissioned or dropped when the pilot leaved the damaged plane in the air or on the ground.

Do you sell these after you video them?

I reckon your videos have a sufficient amount of the build process shown, I dont mind longer ones but at that point I bet the editing and voice over work becomes a headache

Little P-400 Frankenstein

Hi, why don t you seal the work after oils?

Didn't the P-400 have the non-supercharged V-1710 and only a 20mm Oerliken instead of a 37mm anti-tank cannon?

Several USN air groups operated off of Henderson.

i dont even need to watch the video just him talking is enough

Frankencobra.

Почему не советская кобра? 😅

I do like the style and content of your videos but if you feel that including details in them would increase their running time too much how about sticking to what you're currently doing but adding one different detail to each new video build?

hey nobody besides hammerhead could have done it better

3 weeks is quick.....? I did mine in 2 days comfortably.

In World War Two it was the Army air core, not the Air Force.