| "Churchill Crocodile 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The 1943 British engineers developed the flame-thrower tank known as Crocodile capable of producing a ten metre flame These flames allowed the Allies to destroy bunkers and shelters without having to call the demolition teams of the infantry"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Sherman Calliope 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The Rocket Launcher T34 (Calliope) was a tank-mounted multiple rocket launcher used by the US Army during WWII The launcher was placed atop the tank and fired a barrage of 45 in (114mm) rockets from 60 launch tubes It adopts its name from the musical instrument 'Calliope' also known as the steam organ"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Matilda Hedgehog 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "Based on the British Matilda tank it was fitted with a 7 spigot 'Hedgehog' naval mortar The launcher folded horizontal facing forward for travel then could be raised up to 80 degrees for firing It fired forward over the turret Not being traversable the driver had to aim the vehicle at the target"
Price: 11.49 |
| "WWI Female Tank 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The 'Female' version of the MkI tank was produced in larger numbers than its 'Male' partner this was due to the four Vickers machine guns mounted on the sides which were more effective in combat than the heavier guns carried by the 'Male' tank in the treacherous conditions on the Western Front"
Price: 11.49 |
| "LCM3 & Sherman 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) MkIII was the most widely used of the LCMs during World War II with more than 8600 being built in yards in the USA They were employed by both the US Navy and the Royal Navy The LCM MkIII was extensively used in operations in the European and Pacific theatres from 1942 with many hundreds taking part in the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944 The Sherman M4A2 Tank was the best-known of all American medium tanks The Sherman was designed in 1941 as an improvement on the earlier M3 Lee and Grant series after initial production in 1942 large numbers of Shermans were issued to the British Army and the type became the standard Allied medium tank"
Price: 13.99 |
| "Churchill Bridge Layer 1:76 Vintage Classic Military Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "Taking just 15 minutes to deploy the Tank Bridge No2 provided a Class 60 tracked load and a Class 40 wheeled load over a 30ft gap The bridge was in one piece and mounted on the turretless tank The launching arm was attached by a pivoting arm mechanism with rollers to the front of the tank the other end of the arm being attached to the centre of the bridge The bridge remained horizontal as it was raised and then lowered by the pivot arm across the gap"
Price: 16.49 |
| "WWII US Paratroops Series 0 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "48 FiguresThe early German victories in WWII using paratroops spurred the creation of the US airborne program and a fifty-man test platoon was formed on June 25 1940"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWII British 8th Army 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Commonly known as the &8220;Desert Rats&8221; these 8th Army figures are wearing clothing as worn in the North African campaigns when fighting both the Italian forces and later the Rommel&8217;s Afrika Korps"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWII Afrika Corps 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Rommel&8217;s crack troops the Afrika Korps fought Montgomery&8217;s 8th Army the &8220;Desert Rats&8221; across the North African desert culminating in the major Battle of El Alamein This superb set contains various fighting poses as well as a senior staff officer"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWII US Marines 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "This exciting set of the famous &8220;Leathernecks&8221; in action has a full complement of Marines with bazookas flame throwers and inflatable assault boat The US Marines also fought on the Normandy beaches on D-Day"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWII US Paratroops 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "The early German victories in WWII using paratroopers spurred the creation of the US airborne program and a fifty-man test platoon was formed on June 25 1940"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWI British Infantry 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Mould Tools made in 1966 pack Illustration by Brian Knight 1970 Enjoy the nostalgia with Airfix Vintage Classics The famous 'Tommies' in this set are wearing the uniform of the early war period on the Western Front Included are signallers a wiring party and a trench mortar with crew Contains 48 unpainted pieces"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWI French Infantry 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Mould Tools made in 1966 pack Illustration by Brian Knight 1970 Enjoy the nostalgia with Airfix Vintage Classics The French Infantry took part in many of the largest and bloodiest battles of WWI whilst defending their homeland The set features cyclists a signaller complete with pigeons a bugler standard bearer and a variety of infantrymen Contains 48 unpainted figures"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWI U.S. Infantry 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Mould Tools made in 1967 pack Illustration by Brian Knight 1969 Enjoy the nostalgia with Airfix Vintage Classics These are the &8220;Doughboys&8221; that arrived in France and took part in the last great battles of the First World War Their equipment includes light machine guns and a remote-controlled rifle Contains 48 unpainted figures"
Price: 8.49 |
| "WWI Royal House Artillery 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "Mould Tools made in 1968 pack Illustration by Brian Knight 1968 Enjoy the nostalgia with Airlix Vintage Classics The Royal Horse Artillery was armed with light mobile horse-drawn guns This set includes two field guns a full team of horses a gun limber and a full crew Contains 48 unpainted figures"
Price: 8.49 |
| "RAF Personnel 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "The personnel included here are performing their various maintenance and rearming roles including some handling machine-guns ammunition and even a camera"
Price: 8.49 |
| "USAAF Personnel 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "The mechanics in this set are doing all the usual activities expected on an active airfield Also included is a sergeant figure two pilot figures one in a peaked cap and one wearing his helmet"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Luftwaffe Personnel 1:76 Air Fix Figures" |
| "At the beginning of WWII the Luftwaffe were by far the largest and most powerful airforce in the world Figures in this set are posed loading fixing and maintaining aircraft"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Fiesler Storch Vinatge Classic Aircraft Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "One of the great Luftwaffe aircraft of the Second World War the ungainly looking Fieseler Storch may not have commanded the same respect as the fast and agile Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter yet its low speed handling and short field performance was without equal Entering Luftwaffe service in 1937 the Storch performed the vital roles of Army cooperation liaison and reconnaissance meaning the aircraft was never too far away from the front lines and didn&8217;t always need to be flown there Designed to allow the high mounted wings to fold back in a similar manner to how aircraft are stored on ships the Storch could either be loaded on a train or simply towed behind a suitable vehicle as they headed towards the action The high wing and unobstructed cockpit meant that the pilot and his observer had an unrivalled view of the battlefield situation below and the aircraft&8217;s low speed made it extremely difficult for opposition fighters to shoot it down Used extensively by Rommel during the ebb and flow of the North African Campaign the Storch had an incredible stall speed of just 31mph and if flying in to a headwind with wing slats and flaps deployed it almost had the ability to hover Perhaps the most famous use of a Storch was when one was used to rescue a surrounded Benito Mussolini from a remote rocky mountain top landing in less than 100 feet and taking off again in only a slightly longer distance the only fixed wing aircraft capable of doing so"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Hawker Demon Vinatge Classic Aircraft Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The period between the First and Second World Wars was something of a golden era for British aviation and saw the introduction of some of the most attractive aircraft to see RAF service With their gleaming silver fuselages and bright squadron markings many of these aircraft also represented the absolute pinnacle of biplane aviation technology The introduction of the Hawker Hart light bomber proved to be something of an embarrassment for the RAF as it was faster than the current fighter aircraft in service The answer to this problem was simple ask Hawker Aviation to build a fighter version of their Hart Powered by the mighty Rolls Royce Kestrel engine the new two seat &8216;Hart Fighter&8217; proved to be a great success and even though it was quickly renamed Demon to differentiate between the two aircraft just over 300 of these elegant fighters would eventually be produced Unfortunately this golden era for biplanes occurred just as the first monoplane designs were being developed and their reign would prove to be a short if glorious one Just as the Demon had been introduced to combat a new breed of fast biplane bombers so the performance of the new Bristol Blenheim would render it obsolete as a fighter almost overnight"
Price: 9.49 |
| "HMS Hood 1:600 Vintage Classic Warship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The largest warship in the world when launched in 1918 She was the pride of the Royal Navy on sailing to intercept the Bismarck in May 1941 After making contact with the German battleship she with HMS Prince of Wales opened fire The Bismarck returned fire and with her 5th salvo hit the Hood a fatal blow and she sunk within two minutes Only three crew from her total of 1500 survived Dimensions1150 x 45 x 455Skill2Flying Hours2Number of Parts131Dimensions (mm)L430 x W53Age Suitability8"
Price: 17.49 |
| "HMS Ark Royal 1:600 Vintage Classic Warship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "Dimensions113 x 45 x 452Scale1600Age Suitability8"
Price: 16.49 |
| "HMS Belfast 1:600 Vintage Classic Warship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "One of the Town Class Batch 3 cruisers the Belfast saw action at the Battle of the North Cape in World War II as well as protecting the Artic convoys and taking a major role during the D-Day landings After being refitted and seeing action in other conflicts including the Korean War she is now preserved and anchored in the River Thames near to Tower Bridge in London Dimensions113 x 44 x 452Scale1600Skill3Flying Hours2Number of Parts250Dimensions (mm)L311 x W35Age Suitability8"
Price: 16.49 |
| "HMS Victory Vintage Classic Tall Ship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "Launched on 7th May 1765 HMS Victory gained its fame by becoming Admiral Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 The victory at this battle ended Napoleon's bid for mastery of the sea but cost Admiral Nelson his life She had previously taken part in many major actions against Spanish and French fleets and is now the oldest serving Royal Naval ship still in service being the flagship of Portsmouth Command After being restored to the same condition and appearence as she was at Trafalgar she can now be seen in all her glory at her home in Portsmouth by visitors from all over the world Dimensions25 x 7 x 453Scale1180Skill3Flying Hours4Number of Parts353Dimensions (mm)L383Age Suitability8"
Price: 26.49 |
| "Cutty Sark Vintage Classic Tall Ship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "A 'Cutty Sark' is a short chemise It comes from a poem by Robbie Burns Tam O'Shanter when Tam a young lad sees some witches dancing in the wood one whom is wearing a very revealing Cutty Sark The Cutty Sark built in Dumbarton is the best known of all the clippers and in her hey-day was the fastest of them all She could carry 32000 square feet of sail giving her a maximum speed of over 17 knots Employed in the tea trade she was used to speed the new season's crop from China to London where the crews hoped to gain the prestige of being the first back Since 1957 she has been in dry dock in Greenwich London attracting visitors from around the world This much loved ship was almost destroyed in a major fire on 21st May 2007; its hoped she can be fully restored Dimensions25 x 172 x 453Skill4Flying Hours4Number of Parts220Age Suitability8"
Price: 25.99 |
| "Golden Hind Vintage Classic Tall Ship Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580 captained by Sir Francis Drake who on his return with a haul of Spanish gold and other treasures was knighted by Queen Elizabeth The Hind was a well armed and nimble galleon she was orginally commissioned as The Pelican and built in Deptford London where she was launched in 1577 She was the flagship of an expedition to explore the regions beyond South America commanded by Drake with personnel support of Queen Elizabeth of England Drake's mission became one less of exploration and more of piracy as he wreaked havoc against Spanish interests in the region Launched 1577 Deptford LondonDisplacement 300 TonsLength 120ft (37m)Beam 18ft (55)Draft 9ft (27m)Crew 80 - 85Armament 22 Guns"
Price: 25.99 |
| "Apollo Saturn V Space Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "The Saturn V was the largest operational launch vehicle ever produced standing over 363 feet high with its Apollo Spacecraft payload it produced over 75 millionpounds of thrust at lift-off It enabled the crew of Apollo 11 and subsequent Apollo crews to leave the pull of the Earth's gravity and reach the moon Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center under the direction of Wernher von Braun was the largest in a family of liquid propellant rockets that solved the problem of getting to the moon The three stage rocket was taller than a 36-story building and was the largest most powerful rocket ever built A total of thirty-two Saturns of all types were launched; with not one failing Thirteen of these were Vs With a cluster of five powerful engines in each of the first two stages and using high-performance liquid hydrogen fuel for the upper stages the Saturn V was one of the great feats of the 20th century engineering Inside the rocket contained three million parts in a labyrinth of fuel lines pumps gauges sensors curcuits and switches - each of which had to function reliably The first manned Saturn V sent the Apollo 8 astronauts into orbit around the moon in December 1968 After two more missions to test the Lunar Module in July 1969 a Saturn V launched the crew of Apollo 11 to the first manned landing on the moon Dimensions318 x 7 x 498Scale1144Skill3Flying Hours4Number of Parts78Dimensions (mm)L768 x W132Age Suitability8"
Price: 35.49 |
| "Junkers Ju88A-5 9K+ED- Stab III./KG51 Winter 1940 1:72 Corgi Model" |
| "As a result of the RAFs first bombing raid against Berlin on 25th August 1940 and incorrectly assuming that Fighter Command were all but knocked out of the war the Luftwaffe were directed to leave Britain&8217;s fighter stations alone and concentrate their efforts against London In a period which became known as the Blitz from October 1940 British cities were targeted by German bombers on a nightly basis and whilst these raids had a devastating effect on the civilian population it allowed Britain to galvanise its defences and re-equip its battered fighter squadrons Arguably the most effective bomber available to the Luftwaffe during WWII was the Junkers Ju88 a pre-war &8216;Schnellbomber&8217; which proved to be both capable and adaptable seeing service throughout WWII and produced in significant quantitiesFor the switch to night bombing operations over Britain most of IIIKG51s Ju88s benefited from some field applied camouflage modifications which helped to make the aircraft less visible to British defences The under-surfaces of the aircraft were given a black paint wash which effectively masked all national insignia and fuselage markings were similarly blacked out Only the top wing balkenkreuz was retained presumably to aid with friendly unit recognition and to avoid incidents of friendly fire losses It is interesting to note that of the many KG51 Ju88s lost over Britain during the night Blitz offensive one machine lost during November 1940 was thought to have been the first victim of a radar equipped Bristol Beaufighter nightfighter Unfortunately many more aircraft on both sides would be lost before the war was over Scale172Limited EditionYesLimited Edition Size1000Wingspan275mmAge Suitability14"
Price: 53.99 |
| "Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk.22/24 Series 6 1:48 Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "As the final variants of the Spitfire to enter service the Rolls-Royce Griffon powered Mk2224 were very different from the prototype aircraft that took to the sky in 1936 Double the weight and possessing more than twice the power the last Spitfires had an increased climb rate of 80 over the prototype and were around 100mph faster"
Price: 22.49 |
| "WWII U.S. Military Tractor 1:35 Tank Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "During 1941 to 1945 over 15000 specially built and designed military tractors were built in the US Approximately 40 variants were produced and were used in every theatre the US forces operated in One interesting fact was that the manual for this military tractor included instructions for destroying the tractor should it be in danger of being seized by the enemy Many of them stayed in both military and civilian use long after the war"
Price: 19.49 |
| "Astronauts Space Air Fix Model Kit" |
| "Spanning the Apollo missions to the Moon this 59 part set includes action figures of US Astronauts and the equipment they used including the famous Moon Buggy which was used to transport them on the Moon's surface"
Price: 8.49 |
