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OFFICIAL - The World is not ending!

D

espite a small diversion

into World War II Wingnut

Wings have not and will

not stop expanding their range

of World War One aircraft. We

already have a number of reissues

due later this year and now we

have been told that we will have a

new tooled Halberstadt CI.II Escort

Fighter and Infantry support

aircraft that entered service in

1917 until the end of the war.

The kit will be released in two

boxings covering both early and

late production

variants and

each will include

five marking

options and

at least one of

these will be

quite colourful.

My favourite

in the late

boxing has an

overall black

fuselage with

white striped

down the length of the fuselage.

Even better all the stripes

are supplied as decals.

Both versions of the Halberstadt

C1.II will be released in November/

December 2018 and we are promised

news of more World War One

releases soon. Will I get my Fokker

Triplane or Razor? Watch this space.

Cat and Dog

R

oden has announced that they are

modifying the tooling of their

push–pull Cessna O-2 Skymaster

in 1/32 scale to make the most aggressive

version, the Lynx. Heavily modified

in the 1970s these aircraft look like

something from Mad Max with cannon

pods under the wings and machine gun

pods mounted above the fuselage.

The Rhodesian Air Force used

the Lynx as a close support aircraft

and four carried on in service with

Zimbabwean Air Force into the 1980s.

They have also announced they are

scaling down there 1/32 scale O-1 Birddog to

1/48 scale which will be welcomed by many

with an interest in the Vietnam War period.

Both kits should be available

by the end of year.

You heard it here first!

A

fter a very brief appearance for

under an hour and apparently by

accident on an Airfix press release

in January we reported that Airfix would

be producing and all new tool 1/48 scale

Griffon Engined Supermarine Spitfire. Now

we have official confirmation that a Spitfire

FR MK.XIV will be released in 2019 and a

test shot may be on display at Telford.

Also, due soon is the long awaited Me262B-1a

Night Fighter in 1/72 scale and as has become the

norm for Airfix the box art is stunning. Finally, a

rumour has it that Telford there is to be another

new announcement at 11 am on the Saturday.

The last time we had a BIG announcement like

this it was the 1/24 scale Hawker Typhoon!

36 • NOVEMBER 2018 • SCALE AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL

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