Not satisfied with just a cannon bird Me 410 in their 1/48th line-up, Meng have added the high speed bomber interceptor to their catalogue –
we don't have a lot of information as of
yet but thought this was important for the Luftwaffe guys
Warning! High Speed
Bombers Are Coming!
MENG LS-003 :
280 plastic parts on 11 plastic sprues
18 PE parts on one PE fret
L263mm and W340mm
After releasing the characteristic Me410B-2/U4
"cannon-bird" kit, MENG now announces a classic variant of Me410, the
Me410A-1 high speed bomber kit. With Dr. Messerschmitt’s unremitting efforts
and two years of modification, the twin-engine fighter Me210 which had been
deemed hopeless by the Luftwaffe was finally evaluated as “good for war” during
its test flight in 1942. The latest variant received a new designation: Me410.
Luftwaffe found out in combat tests that the speed of Me410 was only a little
lower than that of the latest variant of the British fighter Spitfire. Me410
was also good in flight stability. During high speed bombing missions, Me410A-1
was one of the few bombers which could still effectively break through the
interception of Allied fighters. Because Me410A-1 was good in fire power, speed
and range, it was also deployed to Zerstörer-Geschwader of Luftwaffe for
interception and long-range escort missions.
This LS-003 Me410A-1 high speed bomber kit is in the same
1:48 scale as the preceding LS-001 "cannon-bird" kit. This kit
consists of 280 plastic parts on 11 plastic sprues and 18 PE parts on one PE
fret. Length and wingspan of this model are 263mm and 340mm respectively. Two
complete DB603 engines are provided; bomb bay at the nose and the external
pylon are precisely replicated; two different sights and corresponding
windshields are provided; two different bombs are provided for modellers’
option. Two painting schemes, the standard bomber camouflage painting of
1./KG51 and standard fighter camouflage painting of 7./ZG1, are provided.
MENG’s LS-003 kit will bring you a classic and accurate
model of this German high speed bomber.