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Vickers Wellesley by Ian White. Created on the drawing boards of the Vickers (Aviation) Company by Barnes Wallis using the geodetic form of construction he devised for Britain's R.100 airship, the Wellesley was designed to fulfil an Air Ministry specification for a reliable, general purpose bomber and torpedo-bomber, that was required to carry a heavy load over long distances. Originally conceived as a biplane, but converted t...
Panavia Tornado ADV by Des Brennan The Tornado F.3 spent just over twenty-three years in frontline operational service with the Royal Air Force compared to a similar period for air-defence Phantoms, and twenty-eight years for the Lightning. While every operational Tornado F.3 unit bar 25 Squadron had been operating one of those aircraft types before transitioning to the F.3 only 29 (as OCU) and 11 Squadrons along with 1435 Fli...
Bell AH-1G Cobra 'Early Tails Over NAM' The AH-1G Cobra was the first helicopter ever to have been developed primarily for the ground attack role. The type was deployed in the Vietnam War since 1967 and its first batches sported a left-hand side tail rotor, opposed to the later standard which would carry it on the other side. Our model kit now features four of those early batch machines, one of which happens to be the very fir...
Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech. The XF-84H was derived from the RF-84F as a supersonic propeller test vehicle driven by an afterburning Allison XT-40 turboprop engine. Two aircraft were built and briefly tested as noise produced by the propeller even at idle was too severe for safe ground crew activities. The sickening noise gave the aircraft its nickname "Thunderscreech". It was the 1st U.S. aircraft built with a Ram Air Turb...
RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2005-2021. 450mm(W) x 450mm(H) 17inches(W) x 17inches(H).
RAF Coningsby was built in the late 1930's and after officially opening in November 1940, became operational in February 1941. No. 106 Squadron was the first unit to begin offensive operations from the base flying Handley Page Hampden's. A second unit, No. 97 Squadron, arrived in April equipped with Avro Manchester's, and ...
RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2005-2021.675mm(W) x 675mm(H) 26inches(W) x 26inches(H).
RAF Coningsby was built in the late 1930's and after officially opening in November 1940, became operational in February 1941. No. 106 Squadron was the first unit to begin offensive operations from the base flying Handley Page Hampden's. A second unit, No. 97 Squadron, arrived in April equipped with Avro Manchester's, and i...
RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2005-2021. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
RAF Coningsby was built in the late 1930's and after officially opening in November 1940, became operational in February 1941. No. 106 Squadron was the first unit to begin offensive operations from the base flying Handley Page Hampden's. A second unit, No. 97 Squadron, arrived in April equipped with Avro Manchester's, and in ...
Ford Model T, Hucks Starter. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Hucks starter was in widespread use amongst ground crews, becoming particularly useful as aircraft engines had progressively become too large to be easily started by hand. Some aircraft could only practically be started using the device. Its popularity quickly waned during the 1930s as new forms of integral starters, such as the Coffman starter, were introduced t...
Army Zetor tractor driver and mechanic. Nicely detailed figures of an army tractor driver and an air force ground crew member attaching a tow bar to the tractor so that a MiG-15 fighter could be moved across the tarmac. Designed to be used with our MV128 model of the military used Zetor 25 tractor. (designed to be used with Planet Model kits)
Heinkel He-162A Mechanics (2 pcs.) A pair of Luftwaffe ground crew members servicing the latest jet fighter introduced into service. One of the mechanics opens the gun panel, the other one stands above, watching.
Messerschmitt Bf-109E-4 Ace A. Galland and mechanic. These two figures portray German fighter ace A.Galland and his mechanic, both standing. While Galland has just got out of his Bf-109E and lit up the cigar we all are used to seeing him with, his mechanic has been given Galland's life jacket. Galland wears his flying suit and a pair of fur RAF trousers, the mechanic is seen wearing a standard overall.
A figure of the Germa...
Mikoyan MiG-21PF/PFM Pilot (in High Altitude Pressure Suit) and Ground Crew (2 fig.) This pilot figure wearing the altitude suit has been specifically prepared for the new MiG-21 PF/PFM as kitted by Eduard. It comes accompanied by a figure of a ground crew. (designed to be used with Eduard kits)
Dassault SMB-2 Super Mystere Fighter Pilot + Two Ground Crew (Israel Air Force) (designed to be used with Special Hobby kits) This set portrays an IAF pilot sitting in the cockpit and chatting with two members of the ground crew one of who is standing on the wing, holding on the top fuselage while the other is standing on the ground beside the plane.
IAF airmen figure sets are quite scarce on the market, so our set is a ve...
RAF Pilot Sitting in Cockpit w/Monkey on Shoulder + 2 Mechanics, Western Desert, for Special Hobby Kittyhawk kit Nicely detailed figure of an RAF pilot as sitting in the cockpit plus two figures of his ground crew while preparing the fighter plane for take off from an African desert air strip. The set has been tailored to fit the new Special Hobby P-40 kit, or to be more precise the Kittyhawk as the plane was known to the Brit...