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V-156F Vindicator 'Aeronavale Service' In the effort to get modern military aircraft, France bought larger numbers of US machines in 1939. Among them also the V-156 Vindicator dive bombers. The French version was designated the V-156F and differed significantly from the US machines it was not fitted with the arrestor hook below the fuselage and instead carried air brakes in the wings. The V-156Fs also got French armament - mac...
Pfalz E.I Pfalz Flugzeugwerke GmbH was established in Speyer in the then Kingdom of Bavaria in 1913 by Alfred Eversbusch, his brother Ernst and several other investors. The first types to be produced by the new company were licence-built Otto biplanes, but production rights for Morane-Saulnier monoplanes were bought before the Great War, namely the Type L parasol-wing two-seat monoplane and Type H mid wing single seater. The l...
Fairey Firefly FR Mk.I Foreign Post War Service. FAA was the sole user Fairey Fireflies during the World War 2. Soon after the fighting ceased it became a important export commodity. Fireflies were used by Royal Canadian Navy, major user was Netherlands Naval Aviation Service. Dutch Fireflies operated both from homeland bases as so from overseas, mainly in Dutch East India. Fireflies also strengthened Imperial Etiopean Air For...
Heinkel He-115 Scandinavian Service. The German Heinkel He-115 floatplane won because of its performance the German Navy competition for a torpedo-carrying floatplane. It also set several records in its category in the pre-war times, and also because of this successes, foreign customers became interested in the plane. Sweden and Norway bought the Heinkel floatplanes before the war. While the Swedish machines were to have rathe...
RE-RELEASED!!! Supermarine Seafire Mk.III The Seafire naval fighter aircraft came into existence during WWII as a mere stopgap measure based on a standard Mk.V Spitfire airframe adapted by adding naval equipment. Three versions were produced, which were fitted with a RR Merlin engine, which were the Mk.I to Mk.III, followed later by Griffon-equipped Seafires Mk.15, 17, 45, 46 and 47 (Special Hobby offers the Mk.15 version unde...
RE-RELEASED!!! Gloster E.28/39 Pioneer The first British jet. The first British jet aircraft and the third one in the world that succesfully took to the air was the Gloster E.28/39, called the Pioneer or Squirt. Its development was no doubt the result of the work on the first British jet engine by the designer Frank Whittle and his company Power Jets Ltd. Development of the Power Jets W.1 engine began already in the pre-war ye...
North-American X-15A-2 'White Ablative Coating' Model of a 1960s hypersonic aircraft which, until today, holds the world's speed record for the fastest manned plane. It was also the first aircraft to reach the altitude regarded as the boundary between the earth atmosphere and the outer space. Knowledge gained during the development of the X-15 and the test flights was substantial for the Apollo programme and aero and space res...
Fokker D.II "Grunzweig`s Planes" In 1915, Fokker E.I, E.II and E.III monoplanes ruled skies over the Western Front. But their supremacy did not last long, they got obsolete quite soon afterwards and stood no chance against new biplane fighter aeroplanes of the Allies which possessed much better performance. German designers were thus forced to try and find a suitable replacement type quickly. Martin Kreutzer, a Fokker's design...
I.A.R. IAR-81 BoPi In the late 1930s, the Polish PZL P.11 and P.24 all-metal, high wing fighter planes were produced under licence by I.A.R., Industria Aeronautica Romana. As it was quite clear that such type of design was nearing obsolescence and the future belonged to low wing fighters with retractable undercarriage and enclosed canopy, a design team led by Ion Grosu was formed with the aim to project a modern warplane of su...
Fokker D.II In 1915, Fokker E.I, E.II and E.III monoplanes ruled skies over the Western Front. But their supremacy did not last long, they got obsolete quite soon afterwards and stood no chance against new biplane fighter aeroplanes of the Allies which possessed much better performance. German designers were thus forced to try and find a suitable replacement type quickly. Martin Kreutzer, a Fokker's designer, came with several...
NEARLY GOOD AS NEW!!! Bloch MB.152C-1 Early Version. The Bloch MB 152C.1 was one of four pivotal fighter aircraft types the Arm��½e de l'Air (or French Air Force) used in the defence of France in 1940. Alongside the Morane-Saulnier MS 406, Dewoitine D.520 and ex-U.S. Curtiss H 75, they tried, although in vain, to stop the invading German Luftwaffe. As the development of this machine was not an easy one and the production was r...
R-1535-B Series Twin Wasp 14 cy. Radial Engine
7216 1 piece resin part. Suggested use for the following aircraft:
SB2U series, both USN and export versions
SBC-3 Helldiver
A-17 Series (A-17, A-17A)
BT-1
Bristol Bollingbrook (2x)
Boeing Model 247 (2x)
F2F-1
F3F-1
Grumman Wildcats at Midway. For Airfix and Hasegawa kits. Markings for 5 USN F4F-4 Wildcats and 2 USMC F4F-3 Wildcats. Markings for Thatch, Brassfield and McCluskey from VF-3, Byers from VF-6, Groves from VF-8, and Carl and Corry from MAG-22
Boeing PT-13/N2S-3 Stearman PT-17/N2S-5 Kaydet. For the Revell 1/72 kit that is in and out of production for the last 50 years, last issued as kit # RV4676. Generic markings to build a variety of PT-13/17/27 and N2S-3/5 Primary Trainers. Many examples are provided in the instructions.
NOTS Douglas Skyray F4D-1. Markings for one aircraft. This was one of the prototype F4D-1 updated to operational status. "747" was used with the NOTSNIK program as the launch platform.
Piper L-4A/B Grasshoppers.
Set contains markings for 6 different Grasshoppers that were used from LST at Anzio to spotters used on D-Day to one that was General Hap Arnold to tour airfields in Europe. [L-4H]
Operation Leader Oct 1943.
Set of three markings for the Aircraft from the USS Ranger that participated in Operation Leader, an Allied operation against German shipping in Norway above the Arctic Circle. It was USS Ranger's last War Time cruise. Decals are provided for 3 different F4F-4 Wildcats in what was a rare combination of USN 3 (Actually 4) Tone camouflage scheme and red outlined National Insignia, an SBD-5 Dauntles...
Bent Wing Birds Pt.3: Korean War Rescue. For Revell 1/72 Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Markings for 2 Aircraft. Set is for any 1/72 F4U-4 Corsair kit.
Sheet includes markings for 2 aircraft.
December 4, 1950, aircraft from VF-32 was providing air support for the US Marines by the Chosin Reservoir. Ens. Jessie Brown crash landed due to ground fire. With the SAR Helicopter 15 min. away, Lt. J.G. Thomas Hunder Jr, landed his Corsai...
Operation Leader USS Ranger North Atlantic 1943 Set of three markings for the Aircraft from the USS Ranger that participated in Operation Leader, an Allied operation against German shipping in Norway above the Arctic Circle. It was USS Ranger's last War Time cruise. Decals are provided for 3 different F4F-4 Wildcats in what was a rare combination of USN 3 (Actually 4) Tone camo and red outlined National Insignia, an SBD-5 ...
VF-84 1980. Designed to fit on the Tamiya Grumman F-14A Tomcat Kits. Works on Trumpeter with minor modeling skill. Markings for 8 aircraft from VF-84 from the 1979-81 cruises of CVW-8. Markings for Operation Eagle Claw included. Two sets are required for a full 12 plane squadron. Markings provided for 15 different MODEXs.