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Boeing P-12E 5 liveries set Early in 1928, Boeing built two new fighter biplanes using bolted aluminum tubing for the fuselage’s inside structure, rather than welded steel tubing, typical of earlier models. Later versions had aluminum covering the fuselage rather than fabric or wood. Model 83, designed for the Navy, had a hook-type arrester so that it could land on aircraft carriers. Its production version was designated F4B. The Model 89, built for the Army as the P-12, could hold a 500-pound (226-kilogram) bomb. The military bought 586 of these fighters in different versions. The first was delivered to Army Air Corps Captain Ira C. Eaker on Feb. 26, 1929, for a special goodwill flight to Central America. Later, Brazil became an international customer for the fighters. The kit consists of 5 1/48 models with different liveries $15.00 
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Boeing f4-b4 6 liveries set Brazil, Thai, and 6 US liveries included! The Boeing P-12 or F4B was an American pursuit aircraft that was operated by the United States Army Air Corps and United States Navy. Boeing developed the aircraft as a private venture to replace the Boeing F3B and Boeing F2B with the United States Navy. The first flight of the P-12 took place on June 25, 1928. The new aircraft was smaller, lighter and more agile than the ones it replaced but still used the Wasp engine of the F3B. This resulted in a higher top speed and overall better performance. As result of Navy evaluation 27 were ordered as the F4B-1, later evaluation by the United States Army Air Corps resulted in orders with the designation P-12. Boeing supplied the USAAC with 366 P-12's between 1929 and 1932. Production of all variants totaled 586. $14.50
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Focke-Wulf Ta-183 In late 1942, the Focke-Wulf design team, headed by Kurt Tank, began sketching out concepts for swept-wing fighters built around the newly-developed turbojet engines. The TA-183 Design II concept called for a short fuselage, a large tail fin with high-mounted swept stabilizers, and sharply-swept shoulder-mounted wings. Nicknamed the Huckbein after a mischief-making cartoon crow, the TA-183 concept was entered into the 1944 Emergency Fighter competition and won a development contract, but the Focke-Wulf facilities were captured by Allied troops before any prototype was completed. Captured drawings, blueprints, and specifications provided a tantalizing look at the future for aeronautical engineers in the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Paper Model Details: 30 parts with three construction diagrams, fuselage formers, one-piece wing spar, boxed wells, and duo-fold landing gear legs and doors. Printed wheel wells. Opaque canopy, no swastika marking. Layered PDF allows for three camouflage schemes: gray mottled, green mottled (illustrated), and desert tan. Other layering options allow for open or closed gear bays, and aircraft number. $4.00 |
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Heinkel 1078 In 1944, a requirement was issued in Germany for an emergency jet fighter, a cheap-and-quick-to-produce single-engine design to complement the twin-engine Me-262 Schwalbe that was entering production. Heinkel submitted a design study for the 1078- a stubby machine built around a jet engine, armed with two 30mm cannon, and featuring swept wings with turned-down wingtips. Paper Model Details: 10 parts with three construction diagrams. Two fuselage formers and single-piece wing spar. Opaque canopy; no landing gear. Layered PDF with three camo schemes and optional swastika markings. Degree of difficulty: 2/5 $3.00 |
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The Fokker Dr.I The Fokker Dr.I (Dreidecker, "triplane" in German) was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the aircraft in which Manfred von Richthofen gained his last 19 victories, and in which he was killed on 21 April 1918. Paper Model Details (1/48 version): 78 parts on two pages, with four construction diagrams. Box wing spars, boxed wheels, duo-fold struts and prop blades, full cockpit, detailed rotary engine with individual cylinders, twin machine guns. Twenty historical aircraft in two scales. Download includes 1/72 scale. Degree of Difficulty: 3/5. $24.00 |
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The Fokker E.III The Fokker E.III was the main variant of the Eindecker fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Paper Model Details: 26 parts on two pages, with four construction diagrams. Seven historical aircraft in two scales. Degree of Difficulty: 3/5. $14.00 |
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Caproni Ca.3 The Caproni Ca.3 was an Italian heavy bomber of World War I and the postwar era. It was the definitive version of the series of aircraft that began with the Caproni Ca.1 in 1914.The Ca.3 was a three-engined biplane of wooden construction, with a fabric-covered frame. The crew of four were placed in an open central nacelle (front gunner, two pilots and rear gunner-mechanic). The rear gunner manned upper machine guns, standing upon the central engine in a protective "cage" in front of a propeller. The fixed conventional undercarriage had double mainwheels under each engine and a tailskid under the extreme tail of each boom. A substantial double nosewheel prevented damaging and dangerous noseovers. Paper Model Details: 52 parts on seven pages, with seven construction diagrams. Seven historical aircraft in two scales. Degree of Difficulty: 4/5. $10.00 |
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Sopwith Baby The Sopwith Baby was a British single-seat tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915. The Baby utilized a wooden structure with fabric covering. Paper Model Details: 19 parts on seven pages, with two construction diagrams. Five historical aircraft in two scales. Degree of Difficulty: 2/5. $12.00 |
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Gotha G.IV The Gotha G.IV was an evolution of a grossflugzeug (large airplane) design that began in 1915. While the grossflugzeug was originally intended to fill almost any military task, over long ranges, the type came to be utilized more and more for bombing. The G.IV was built based on experience gathered with the previous models of Gothas, all of which were built in small numbers. The G.IV was, however, mass-produced, and was developed from the outset as a long-range bomber, particularly for striking targets in England. Around 230 were built, entering service in March 1917 and flying squadron-strength raids on southeastern England by summertime. Paper Model Details: 116 parts on six pages, with four construction diagrams. One-piece wing spars, boxed wheels and prop hubs, duo-fold struts, guns, and prop blades. Full cockpits, gun-tunnel, and printed bomb-load inserts. Seven historical aircraft in two scales. Degree of Difficulty: 4/5. $16.00 |
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Halberstadt CL.IV The Halberstadt CL.IV was developed from the company's earlier CL.II design. The CL designation was for a class of two-seater that was to be lighter and more maneuverable, to act as escorts to regular C-type two-seaters. It was found that the CL machines made effective ground-attack machines, and a new category of squadron, the Schlastaffel or "Schlasta", was formed especially for close-support work. The CL.IV was the result of battle experience that produced a specialized close-support, ground-attack two-seater. Paper Model Details: 62 parts on two pages (per model), with three construction diagrams. Duo-fold struts, boxed wheels, fuselage formers, one-piece wing spars. Full cockpits. Markings for German, Estonian, Lithuianian, Soviet, and Polish aircraft included. 1/48 and 1/72 scale pages included. Degree of Difficulty: 3/5. $12.00 |
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The Blackburn Kangaroo The Blackburn Kangaroo was developed from a 1916 design for a twin-engine, twin-float torpedo bomber. After development and refinement, small orders were placed, by the War Office (RFC) and Admiralty (RNAS) for a landplane patrol-bomber version; this became popularly (but unofficially) known as the Kangaroo. The Kangaroo carried a crew of three or four, was powered by two Rolls-Royce Falcon engines of 250hp each, and could carry a 920 lb. bomb load. The only wartime operator of the Kangaroo was No. 246 Squadron RAF, which flew them for the last six months of the war on coastal and anti-sub patrols from southern England. The machine depicted by this paper model, B9983, was credited with the sinking of the German U-boat UC-70 in August of 1918. Post-war, the 14 Kangaroos that had been delivered were bought back by Blackburn; some were converted to airliners and others used as freight-carriers. Several were used in long-distance racing events. $10.00 |
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Lost Eagles Roman Vasilyev (Der Kampflieger) presents Lost Eagles: Fighter Prototypes of World War 1, Volume One. This 24-page e-book, in PDF format, contains descriptions, photos, 3-view drawings, and color profiles of some of the lesser-known fighter concepts from the Great War. Aircraft designs from all of the major combatants are featured, and the book includes a bonus model from Der Kampflieger's "Rare Pearls" Collection, a 1/72nd scale replica of the Aviatik 30.40, a late-war, Austro-Hungarian parasol fighter prototype. 
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Lost Eagles Roman Vasilyev (Der Kampflieger) presents Lost Eagles: Fighter Prototypes of World War 1, Volume Two. This 46-page e-book, in PDF format, contains descriptions, photos, 3-view drawings, and color profiles of some of the lesser-known fighter concepts from the Great War. Aircraft designs from all of the major combatants are featured, and the book includes a bonus model from Der Kampflieger's "Rare Pearls" Collection, a 1/72nd scale replica of the Albatros D.XI prototype, an advanced-design biplane that was considered in the last Fighter Competition in 1918 before the sole prototype was destroyed in a crash. $25.00 |
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