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| Product code: | A50160 |
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| Number: | V460287 |
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| Country: | Saksa |
| Country: | Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta (UK) |
| Brand: | Airfix |
Supermarine Spitfire MkVb Messerschmitt Bf109E Dogfight Doubles Gift Set 1:48
| Scale | 1:48 |
| Skill | 2 |
| Flying Hours | 3 |
| Number of Parts | 258 |
| Dimensions (mm) | Details below |
| Age Suitability | 8+ |
Between June 1940 and November 1942 the small but strategically important island of Malta, situated in the Mediterranean Sea, became the most heavily bombed place on earth when first Italian and then German bombers attempted to force the island to surrender.
Merchant shipping convoys were also attacked in an attempt to prevent
the island being re-supplied with food and military equipment.
Initially Malta’s only defending fighter aircraft were outdated Gloster
Gladiators and then Hawker Hurricanes but at the height of the battle,
cannon armed and tropicalized Spitfire Mk.Vbs were used to intercept the
German Junkers Ju88 and Ju87 Stuka dive bombers which were escorted by
Messerschmitt Bf109Es. It became a struggle that was in some ways
similar to the Battle of Britain. Eventually at the end of 1942, the war
in North Africa had been won by the Allies so Malta was no longer of
such important to the Axis powers and the bombing stopped allowing the
starving civil population to be re-supplied by sea.
Paint
Scheme – Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb, No. 229 Squadron, Royal Air Force,
Qrendi, Malta, December 1942 and Messerschmitt Bf109E-7, aircraft flown
by Oberleutnant Joachim Muncheberg, 7./JG26 “Schlageter”, Gela, Sicily,
Spring 1941.
Contents:
• 10 x Acrylic Paints
• 2 x Brushes
• 2 x Poly Cement
• Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb: L195 x W232 - Pieces 151
• Messerschmitt Bf109E-7: L183 x W205 - Pieces 107
