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Focke-Wulf Fw-189A 'Owls over the Eastern Front' In 1937, the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) issued specifications for a new Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft. The companies Blohm Voss with their asymmetric BV 141, Arado with the single-engine Ar 198 and Focke Wulf with the Fw 189 project participated in the competition. The winner was the Focke Wulf.
Like the BV 141, the Fw 189 stood out with an unusual technical solution....
Douglas A-20G Havoc 'Over Europe and Pacific' The American A-20 Havoc / Boston twin-engine bombers were deployed on many battlefields of World War II. They were very successful in the Pacific. The A-20G version was equipped with large-caliber machine guns in the nose, the rear hemisphere was guarded with a gun turret with a pair of machine guns of the same caliber. This armament was used in ground attacks, along with bombs dro...
Supermarine Seafire FR MK.47 'The Last Royal Navy Propeller Fighter' 1/72
The final Spitfire versions, i.e. the Mk.21, 22 and 24, sometimes also called the second generation Spitfires, had corresponding navalized counterparts in the Seafire Mk.45, 46 or 47 versions. The Mk.47 Seafire was most similar to the Spitfire 24 type, its airframe was considerably modified though. The arresting hook was a necessity of course, in this c...
Saab AJ-37 Viggen 'Show Must Go On' The Saab 37 Viggen was an aaircraft ahead of its time. Its designers used an unorthodox construction which enabled the plane to meet all requirements laid om it and in some parameters even surpass these. The Swedish Air Force placed order for several versions of the Viggen, its basic design formed an universal platform which, using specialised equipment, enabled the plane to be used for vari...
Fouga CM.170 Magister 'Acrobatic Teams' The Fouga Magister was not only a great trainer jet, it was also an excellent aerobatic machine used by many aerobatic display teams. This release of the Magister covers the schemes of the Belgian Red Devils, French Patrouille de Ecole de l Air and the FFS A Acro Team of Germany. All of these airframes wore quite strikng and colourful schemes indeed.
As well as serving with the French ...
Douglas DB-8A/3N 'Outnumbered and Fearless' The DB-8 bomber aeroplane was produced by Douglas in the USA, however, the type was first developed and initially produced by Northrop, whose designers had come with a two-seat, ground attack type known as the Gamma 2F and which had been delivered to the USAAF with the military designation A-17. As Douglas bought the Northrop later, the production was moved to its facility instead, a...
Junkers Ju-87D-5/N 'Night Attack 'Stuka' USUALLY £19.80. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! High quality Academy Junkers Ju-87G-2 styrene parts are now joined by our own designed and made styrene conversion parts, etches and resin parts, all of which gives you the very welcomed opportunity to turn the original Academy kit into the D-5/N/D-8 varieties. And at the same time, those new styrene parts also correct the very few mistakes whic...
Dassault_Mirage F.1AZ/CZ 'The South African Commie Killers' The Mirage F.1C came about as a private venture by the French Dassault company. The first flight of the Mirage F.1 took place on 23rd December 1966 and production aircraft entered service with the Armee de l'Air as the F.1C single-seater fighter and F.1B two-seater trainer versions. During their service with France a number of these aircraft were upgraded by fitting o...
Focke-Wulf Fw-189C/V-6 The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 was produced as the Fw 189A reconnaissance and observation aircraft but also as the Fw 189B for the transport and training role. The chief designer Kurt Tank also prepared the ground attack Fw 189C version, two examples of which were manufactured bu which never reached the production as the Luftwaffe favoured the Hs129.
Our SH72432 model kit depicts the V-6, the final prototype st...
Focke-Wulf Fw-189B-0/B-1 'German Trainer' The twin-boom Focke-Wulf Fw 189, it is not just the reconnaissance Fw-189A version. Along with ground attack prototypes, also a batch of Fw 189B training aeroplanes was built. These differed from the others by having a streamlined fuselage pod housing a crew of five. Also the undercarriage and some features on the engine nacelles were of a different style.
Some time ago, this model w...
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...
RE-RELEASED!!! Dassault_Mirage F.1C/C-200 'Armee de `l Air' The Mirage F.1C came about as a private venture by the French Dassault company while it had been engaged in a project designed to fulfil the future needs of the French Air Force (Armee de l'Air) for a modern jet aircraft capable of carrying out interception and tactical attack roles carrying conventional or nuclear armament. A variety of designs were put forward in or...
Saab AJ-37 Viggen 'Strike Fighter' The Saab 37 Viggen was simply an aircraft well ahead of its time. Rather unorthodox solutions brought by the designers not just allowed to meet the requirements, they also caused that the Viggen even exceeded them in a couple of respects. The Swedish Air Force placed order for several versions of the aircraft which would comprise the same basic airframe and would differ by additional equipmen...
RE-RELEASED!!! Dassault _Mirage F.1CT The Mirage F.1 owes its creation to a private initiative by Dassault. The Armee de l Air ordered the construction of two prototypes designated Mirage F.2 and F.3 with JTF10 engines. However, Dassault built another prototype with smaller dimensions and an Atar 9K engine at its own expense. This prototype, which flew for the first time on 23 December 1966, was selected and the production mac...
Re-released! Dassault_Mirage F.1CR The Mirage F.1C came to being as a private venture of the French Dassault company. The French Air Force, or the Arm��½e de l'Air, had ordered two prototype aircraft named Mirage F.2 and Mirage F.3 which were to be equipped with a JTF10 engine. However, Dassault built at their own expense an additional prototype, smaller than the two previous and fitted with an Atar 9K power plant. This machin...
de Havilland Vampire Mk.1 Development of a jet fighter later to be named the Vampire began in 1941 and related closely with the development of the H-1 jet engine, for which the engine section of de Havilland company was responsible. The engine was later to be known under its new name Goblin and its development turned out to be very successful. The Vampire was therefore ordered under Air Ministry specification E.6/41 calling fo...
Letov S.328V "floatplane Version" The Czechoslovak military aircraft factory, also known under Letov trade mark was one of the most important suppliers of warplanes for the Czechoslovak Army. At the end of the 1930s, Letov was producing mainly the .328 type which was a multi-purpose biplane, its first batch being ordered by the military as early as in 1934 and delivered a year later. Seven further batches followed, the last of...
Saab J-21A During the Second World War, Sweden sought to ensure its neutrality, besides other means, also through a powerful air force. The Flygvapnet (Swedish Air Force) ordered 264 Seversky P-35A US-made fighter aircraft, designated the J-9 in Sweden of which were 60 delivered and also the Vultee Vanguard, to be designated the J-10, of which were none delivered. However,after the US was drawn into the war by the Japanese att...
Westland Whirlwind Mk.I 'Fighter Bomber' 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 Whirlwind twin engined 'Cann...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Bell AH-1G Cobra 'Spanish & IDF/AF Cobras' The AH-1G Cobra was the very first helicopter primarily developed for anti ground missions. AH-1G Cobras saw their combat premiere in Vietnam in 1967. The early machines can be recognized by the tail with port-side mounted tail rotor, later ones had the usual configuration of the tail rotor on the starboard side. The AH-1G became the first member of a really wide family of ground atta...
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...