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Vought V-173 Flying Pancake/Flapjack. One of the most interesting designs of the World War II came from significant U.S. designer Charles H. Zimmerman. The machines were manufactured by Vought Company for which Zimmerman worked. His V-173 'Flying Pancake' served for testing of the Navy F5U-1 fighter design concept. As the tests revealed, this unorthodox machine had very good flying characteristics. Moreover, this machine posse...
Supermarine Seafire F Mk.XV Far East Service' The kit contains three sprues with grey plastic parts, one sprue with clear parts, decals and photo-etched parts. The included plastic parts will allow building either version equipped with 'A' hook or with later 'Stinger' arrestor hook. The fuselage features both finely engraved panel lines and over plating Decals included offer four machines with later arrestor hook
version. The...
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII The Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII was a less widespread version of this famous fighter mainly due to the low amount of aircraft produced. Nevertheless, for the Supermarine Spitfire development it is one of the most important versions. It was the first Griffon powered production version. The production had started in October 1942 when some of the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX (originally Mk.V) and Mk.VIII...
RE-RELEASED!!! Heinkel He-178V-2 The Heinkel He-178 with E. Warsitz at the controls hopped shortly above the runway for the first time on 24 August, 1939 and the real first flight took place only three days later. These were the very first flights of a jet aircraft in the world. On 1 November, while the test flights were being still in progress, the aircraft was displayed to RLM officials. Later on, the aircraft received more ...
RE-RELEASED!!! Martin Mk.I / Mk.II Maryland 'Warburtons War' The Martin 167 medium bomber was manufacured in the USA, however it has never been used by the US military. On the other hand, overseas, the French and British showed their interest in the type and placed the orders. In Britain, the type received the name Maryland and while the French aiframes arrived in time to get involved in defending France in 1940, the British o...
RE-RELEASED!!! I.M.A.M. (Romeo) Ro-57bis Italian Fighter Bomber The IMAM / Romeo Ro.57 powered with a pair of Fiat A 74 R.C.38 engines had been originally designed as an interceptor but following the initial flight tests it was decided to delegate it to the fighter-bomber role instead designated Ro.57bis. A total of 200 was ordered later to be cut down to only 90 airframes and eventually only 60 of them were produced. These we...
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...
JB-2 Loon 'US Version of V-1 Missile' 1/32 post WWII. JB-2 Loon 'US Version of V-1 Missile' 1/32 1/32
The German V1 missiles were copied and manufactured in the USA under the designation JB-2 Loon. They were to be used against Japan, but the use of the atomic bomb ended the war. Nevertheless, they were accepted into service by the US Army, USAAF and US Navy and used until the mid-1950s.
The kit contains three sprues of plas...
Hawker Tempest Mk.V 'Doodle-bug Hunters'. Four very attractive markings. There is a 3D-Printed radar (wing antenna and a cockpit instrument) for Camo A. This will be the very first Tempest kit to offer the 'radar camo'. This aircraft, along with one other, will be decorated with symbols of shot down V-1 rockets.
The kit will be released in September, you can already start pre-ordering it now.
Bell AH-1Q Cobra ICM's 1/32 AH-1G Cobra plastic model is now released with the addition of our own new, grey styrene and clear plastic parts. The decal sheet is also new as this release depicts the anti-tank AH-1Q/S version of the Cobra helicopter. The schemes covered are from the service with the US Army, Turkey military and Israel air force. The model kit is released in a limited quantity only.
- in this scale, the Q/S vers...
Fiat G.50bis/G.50bis/N 'Fighter-Bomber & Navy Fighter' The Fiat G.50 fighter was introduced to service with the Regia Aeronautica even before the outbreak of WW2 as the first version of the type had been tested in the late stages of the Spanish civil war. The G.50bis version was a response to earlier Italian fighter types that lacked in their performance compared to modern fighters of their opponents. Some of the Fiat fighters...
Westland Whirlwind FB Mk.I 'Fighter-Bomber' Hi-Tech version.
Not long before the outbreak of WW2, the British Air Ministry issued a requirement calling for two types of fighter aircraft, one light weight with machine gun armament and the other one with heavy cannon armament. To these requirements, the machine gun armed Hurricanes and Spitfires were designed, while to fit the second category, the Westland offered their Whirlwi...
North-American T-2 Buckeye 'Special Markings' T-2 Buckeye 'Anniversary Markings' The T-2 Buckeye jet trainer is no doubt among the very legends of the US naval aviation. Both the US Navy and Marines operated this type for a very long time whilst in Greece, the Buckeye saw service even longer. Besides the standard white and red colour scheme, quite a few US airframes bore much more striking colours. And mostly in 1976 when the ...