Mark I Models 1:144 - Page 6

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 29 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, open and closed, and an armourglass panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1)   Lavochkin La-7, White 58 (c/n unknown), 2nd Sq. (AE), 6th Fighter Regiment (IAP), Pacific Ocean Fleet (TOF), Soviet Naval Air Force (VVS VMF), Vtoraya Rechka airfield, Vladivostok, Soviet Union, August 1945

2)   Lavochkin La-7, White 06 (c/n 45210806), ‘Gorkovskiy rabochiy’, 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Regiment, Soviet Air Force (VVS KA), Kraków-Balice airfield, Poland, May 1945

Lavochkin La-7, White 06 (c/n 45210806), ‘Gorkovskiy rabochiy’, 2nd Air Regiment (LP 2), Czechoslovak Air Force, Piešťany airfield, Czechoslovakia, spring 1946

3)   S-97 (Lavochkin La-7), s/n S 97-860, White SU-60 (c/n 45210860), 3rd Sq., 44th Air Regiment (LP 44), Czechoslovak Air Force, Vajnory airfield, Czechoslovakia, spring 1948

4)   Lavochkin La-7 (3-cannon), White 63 (c/n unknown), 63rd Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP), flown by A. Maresyev, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG), Soviet Air Force (VVS USSR), Eggersdorf airfield, Germany, winter 1945/46

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 27 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). The rear side of the box now comprises the representation of a tarmac section of a military airfield which can be cut out and used as a display base for the assembled model. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

NOTE: these kits were re-designed and new masters were made. The cockpit canopies were 3D designed and made by injection moulding into a metal mould.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

A: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 (Erla-built), White 13 (W.Nr. 151567), 10./JG 300, Luftwaffe, Jüterbog-Waldlager airfield, Germany, April 1945

B: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10/U4 (WNF-built), White 5 (W.Nr. 611048), II./JG 52, Luftwaffe, Neubiberg airfield, Germany, spring 1945

C: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10/R6 (Erla-built), Yellow 7 (W.Nr. 152016), 3./JG 51, Luftwaffe, Prag-Gbell airfield, Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, May 1945

D: Avia C-10 (Bf 109G-10), Black EV-12 (c/n 11), SVS Fighter Combat Training Centre, HQ Flt., 2nd Air Division, Czechoslovak Air Force, Planá airfield (České Budějovice), spring 1947

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 29 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/U4 (WNF-built), Yellow 1 (W.Nr. 20499), flown by Lt Erich Hartmann, CO of 9./JG 52 (Fighter Squadron), Luftwaffe, Nove Zaporozhye airfield, the Soviet Union, October 1943

2) Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/R6 with R3 (WNF-built), White 10 (W.Nr. 140066), flown by Oblt Alfred Grislawski, CO of 1./JG 50 (Fighter Squadron), Luftwaffe, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim airfield, Germany, September 1943

3) Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/R6 with R3 (WNF-built), Yellow 1 (W.Nr. 440141), flown by Oblt Wilhelm Schilling, CO of 9./JG 54 (Fighter Squadron), Luftwaffe, Ludwigslust airfield, Germany, February 1944

4) Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/R6 (Mtt-built), MT-453/White 11 (W.Nr. 165274), flown by Staff Sgt Osmo Länsivaara, 1./HLeLv 34 (Fighter Squadron), Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat), Taipalsaari airfield, Finland, July 1944

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 27 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). The rear side of the box now comprises the representation of a tarmac section of a military airfield which can be cut out and used as a display base for the assembled model. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

NOTE: these kits were re-designed and new masters were made. The cockpit canopies were 3D designed and made by injection moulding into a metal mould.

Colour schemes included in the kit:

A: Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4, White 1 (W.Nr. 330204), 9./JG 77, Luftwaffe, Neuruppin airfield, Germany, November 1944

B: Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4 (Night Fighter), White 5, I./NJG 11, Luftwaffe, Leck airfield, Germany, April 1945

C: Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4, White 12 (W.Nr. 332380), 9./JG 3, Luftwaffe, Pasewalk airfield, Germany, March 1945

D: Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4, 3–14 (W.Nr. 333878), 3rd Flight (3a Squadriglia), 1st Fighter Squadron (I Gruppo Caccia), National Republican Air Force (Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, ANR), Lonate Pozzolo airfield, Italy, March 1945

Two ex-Eduard injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 38 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). One small fret with photo-etched parts and a comprehensive decal sheet are included.

The Me 262 Schwalbe was a German jet fighter designed by the team led by Willy Messerschmitt. It was one of the most advanced warplanes to see front-line service during WWII. Its protracted development began in 1939, but aerodynamics research work and jet engine development delayed its mass production.

The training aircraft based on the Me 262A-series was conceived in August 1943, but its prototype, a Blohm und Voss-converted Me 262 S5 was first flown only in July 1944.

In total, some 29 Me 262Bs were modified, with the conversions shared between B&V and DLH, and in fact all two-seaters were adapted from existing Me 262A airframes. Of these, nine aircraft were later upgraded to the combat night-fighter variant, the Me 262B-1a/U1.
The Me 262B was an all-metal low-wing monoplane, of a streamlined design and with two cockpits in tandem. It was powered by two Jumo 004 turbojets suspended under the wings. It was fitted with a swept-back wing and a tricycle landing gear. It had a long clear-view canopy and was fitted with a non-ejection seats. The original Me 262A's on-board offensive armament was to be deleted, but some B-model aircraft carried two or even four MK 108 cannons in the fuselage nose.

A number of Me 262s fell into Allied hands and some were examined in Britain, the USSR and the USA post-war. In Czechoslovakia, three two-seater CS-92s were completed and utilised by the Air Force until 1951.