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J-20/Heja I 'Reggiane' 2000 Export Birds' This boxing covers the Re 2000 Italian WW2 fighter wearing colours of two foreign operators. The airframes which saw service with the Hungary air force fought on the Eastern Front while the Swedish ones watched over the neutrality of this nordic country. The kit contains four styrene sprues and one with clear canopy parts. The wing sprues are based on the Classic Airframes model, all t...
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Heinkel He-177A-3 'Greif' The Heinkel He 177 Greif was the only German four-engine bomber deployed in larger numbers during World War II. Its operational use was not entirely successful, but the Heinkel He 177 is still an iconic aircraft. Its concept is unique. In each wing, two engines were placed side by side with a drive to a common gearbox. This turned a four-bladed propeller. The bomber thus looked like having only a pair...
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Siebel Si-204E 'German Night Bomber & Trainer' The Siebel Si 204A and Si 204D were the transport and trainer versions of the twin engined aeroplane originally built to be operated by the Lufthansa as well as (and mainly) by the Luftwaffe. In the war years, a trainer bomber version was built and later used in the night bombing role. This type was designated the Si 204E and a pair of prototypes and a small batch of Si 204E-0 pro...
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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...
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Hawker Tempest Mk.II 'Hi-Tech' (prepared with Eduard) The Tempest Mk.II was the last radial engine fighter aeroplane to introduced to service with the RAF. The type had been developed for the planned atack against Japan in the closing stages of the war. But using the atomic bombs by the Americans meant an end to those plans and the Tempest Mk.II was deployed in a couple of post-war era conflicts instead. Bearing RAF colours, i...
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SIAI-Marchetti SF-260EA/D/EU 'Late Bulged Canopy Type' The Italian SF-260 training, sports and aerobatic aircraft is widely used around the globe. In Europe, it fliey with the Italian and Belgian military and was in service with the Irish Air Corps. The type is also used both by military and civilian operator in Asia, Africa and America. In our offer you can find model kit no. SH48207 in its early variety featuring smaller, fl...
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Saab AJ-37 Viggen The Saab 37 Viggen was an aircraft well ahead of its time. Unorthodox solutions chosen by its designers not only enabled the type to meet all the requirements, but to even surpass them in a couple of respects. The Swedish military ordered the jet in several various versions which all would share a common platform, which joined only by some special equipment would permit the operation in several various roles....
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Aero C-3B 'Czechoslovak Bomber-Trainer' WAS £49.50. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! T The Siebel Si 204A and Si 204D were the transport training versions of the twin-engined aircraft designed and built for the Lufthansa and, mainly, for the Luftwaffe. A bomber trainer version was also built during the war which was capable of taking night bombing missions, too. Known as the Si 204E, two prototype machines were built and a small batc...
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Piper L-4 Grasshopper 'From Africa to Central Europe. It quite soon became clear to the US military, as well as the British RAF, that the rather large and complicated types such as the O-47 or Lysander which had been designed in the pre-war days for army co-operation, close support, artillery observation and liaison roles were in fact ill-suited for the real operations. Lighter types with the ability of very short take offs an...
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Bugatti 100 Racer In the pre-war years, Ettore Bugatti, a very well known racing car designer, took the opportunity and decided to turn his attention to aviation too and come with a concept of a racing aeroplane which was to win the then rather popular Deutsch de la Muerthe races. At first, the plane was to be fitted with just one engine, this was later reconsidered and two powerplants were used, placed asymmetricaly in the sl...
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Piper J-3 Cub The light and cheap J-3 Cub aeroplanes were behind the development of the civil aviation in the USA in the late 1930s. With the end of the world crisis the interest in aviation increased and the J-3 was an ideal type for the basic training and tourist flying. With WW2 coming, the J-3 came into the sights of the military and the USAAF decided to test the type in the artillery spotting and short range recon roles. ...
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Piper L-4 Cub in 'Post War Service' Quite soon it became clear to the US military, as well as the British RAF, that the rather large and complicated types such as the O-47 or Lysander which had been designed in the pre-war days for army co-operation, close support, artillery observation and liaison roles were in fact ill-suited for the real operations. Lighter types with the ability of very short take offs and landings proved ...
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Dassault SMB-2 Super Mystere Model of a French jet fighter. The model is moulded using metal type tools, contains 8 sprues of plastic parts (two are duplicates) and a sprue with clear parts. The SMB-2 Super Mystere was the first mass-produced Western European aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. In its development, Dassault built on its previous mass-produced fighter types as were the Ouragan and Mystere IVB ...
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Bell AH-1Q/S Cobra 'IDF Against Terrorists' 1/48
The Israeli Air Force acquired and subsequently tested the AH-1G Cobra attack helicopters. Due to the need of helicopters capable of destroying armoured vehicles or the enemy's fortified footholds, Israel in cooperation with its US counterpart converted these helicopters to the AH-1S version. This AH-1S airframes were equipped with the TOW missiles. Israeli helicopters still r...
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Grumman AF-2 Guardian 'Fire Bomber', The largest single engine, piston engine aircraft to have ever been flown from the decks of aircraft carriers " yes this is the apt description of the anti-submarine AF-2 Guardian aeroplane. Following the Korea War, the Guardians were redelegated to reserve units and eventually struck off charge. Some of them, however, and mainly due to the strength of their airframe and their excellent ran...
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Breda 65A-80 'Aviazione Legionaria' The ground-attack Breda 65 aircraft, both of the single seat and two seat variety, had been designed yet berofe the war broke out. The type was manufactured in two main versions, differing by the type of the power plant used and the span of the wings. The Italian Air Force decided to test the Bredas in real war conditions and sent the to the Aviazione Legionaria, the Italian Expeditionary Co...
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Airspeed Oxford Mk.I 'Gunner Trainer' The Airspeed Oxford was a British aeroplane developed early in the war and mainly used in training of multi-engine aircraft crews " pilots, navigators, gunners. The Oxfords saw service with the RAF as well as with air forces of other Commonwealth countries (RNZAF, RCAF, RAAF and SAAF). In the post war years, many Oxfords were also delivered to even more other countries. The Mk.I version of...
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Fiat Br.20 Cicogna 'Bomber over Two Continents' 'Bomber over Two Continents' The Fiat BR.20 Cicogna (Stork in Italian) was the only Italian twin-engined bomber in service with the Regia Aeronautica during World War II. In 1934, the Italian Air Ministry issued specifications for a new heavy twin-engine bomber. The first BR.20 prototype took off for the first time on 10 February 1936 and was put into service in September of the ...
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£49.99
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Bell AH-1Q/S Cobra 'US & Turkish Army' The AH-1G was the initial version of the iconic Cobra helicopter and had mainly been designed to provide close support to the ground troops. The US military quite quickly realised that what they also need is a weapon system capable of taking on enemy's armoured vehicles and tanks. And most urgent this need was felt in Europe where the danger of Soviet tank forces was almost palpatable. To...
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Grunau Baby IIB 'German WWII Glider' Both in the pre-war years and during the war, the Grunau Baby IIB was the most widely used glider all around the world. It is estimated that about six thousands of these simple airframes might have been built. While before the war, the Grunau Baby gliders were built mainly by amateur pilots using available drawings, with the war on the horizon the type entered almost mass production in Germ...
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Dassault SMB-2 Super Mystere 'Sa'ar " Israeli Storm in the Sky' Hi Tech kit. The SMB.2 was a French-built jet fighter, the very first Western Europe-produced supersonic. Our SH48238 kit portrays the type in its later variety powered by a US-made J52 engine in longer tail section and serving with the Israeli Air Force, known as the Sa'ar " or Storm. These Israeli Sa'ars were used in a few wars with the neighbouring Arab countri...
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L-4/NE-1 Grasshopper 'Pacific Warriors' 1/48
The US Marines, US Army, RAAF and the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (ML-KNIL), these are the operators we have picked for our new release of the L-4 Grashopper kit. The US Marines machine sported blue over grey scheme, while the other scheme in the kit have the more usual Olive Green on the upper surfaces with the same grey below. The US Marines, US Army and RAAF ma...
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Romeo Ro 43 'Spanish Service' In September 1943 it became clear that Italy was defeated. A group of Italian navy aviators knew it, too, and so they decided to fly eight IMAM / Romeo Ro.43 floatplanes from La Spezia to La Maddalena. They took off the moment the German troops started to take over the local armoury. Two of them were shot down, remaining six managed to reach the Spanish Balearic Islands. The Ro.43s were interned t...
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CAC CA-19 Boomerang 'Jungle Scouts' 1/48
The Boomerang was the only indigenous-built Australian fighter aeroplane to saw service during the Second World War. Boomerangs defended Australia and were also deployed to New Guinea and other Pacific islands. The last fighter-recce version, designated CA-19, carried a photo camera behind the cockpit and mainly flew recon missions or marked potential targets for larger fighter bomber...
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CAC CA-9 Wirraway 'In training and combat' The Wirraway was an Australian adaptation of the US-built Texan aircraft and it served as for pilot training, reconnaissance and ground attack missions. In combat areas, the Wirraways were also used to identify and mark enemy targets. The Wirraway was produced in a couple of series, differing in some details and internal equipment.
The kit comes on three styrene sprues, one with clea...
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