The Modelling News: Trumpeter's four new kits of August in plastic, decal & marking choices.

More kits from Land, Sea and Air in the August's new items from Trumpeter. We have boxart, sprues and colour choices of the kits in our preview...

New from Trumpeter in August

3M54 Club-k in 40-feet variant

Model #01077

1/35th scale

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Club-K, container missile system is dedicated to fire at overwater and ground targets with winged missiles 3M-54TE, 3M-54TE1 and 3M-14TE.3M-54 the missile has a hypersonic third stage and hits the target at the triple speed of sound. The container missile system can simultaneously fire at overwater and ground targets, that's is a main feature of the 'Club-K'.

The markings of the kit

The 'Club-K' system is placed in a standard 40-feet container, it can be installed onshore stations, overwater ships of different classes, trains, automotive stations. The 'Club-K' system consists of a universal launch module (ULM), combat control device (CCD) and power and life-support module (PLSM). Universal launch module hosts the launch station with capacity for 4 missiles.

The kit sprues

Model Length: 349.1mm Width: 69.7mm

Copper tube included

The kit consists of over 380 parts w/accurate design

3M-54 Missile included

HMS TYPE 23 Frigate – Kent(F78)

Model: #06719

1/700th scale

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The Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate serving with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships are named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, HMS St Albans was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in June 2002.

The markings of the kit

The combination of Merlin helicopters with their advanced anti-submarine equipment, and Sonar 2087, has according to the Royal Navy, re-affirmed its reputation as a leader in anti-submarine warfare. HMS kent（F78) was commissioned on 8 June 2000 and was the first ship to enter Royal Navy service in the 21st Century. She is currently refitting at Rosyth.

The kit sprues

Model Length: 190mm Beam:23.4 mm

Total Parts 200+

Total of 4 sprues, deck and hull

- Lower hull made from multi-directional slide moulds.

- Deck wood pattern finely rendered

- Contains engraved nameplate

- Photo-etched frets included

DC-3 CNAC

Model: #05813

1:48th scale

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A reboxing of the original DC-3 / C-47 kit with new markings of the China National Aviation Company who used to transport men and material over the "hump" during WWII and after.

The markings of the kit

The kit sprues

Fuselage

~ Left and right fuselage are slide moulded w/ numberless rivets details

~ Split cargo door with a ladder made from astoundingly delicate photo-etched parts

~ Clear windows to assemble to show the full interior

Exterior

~ Optional plastic or Die-cast landing gear struts slide moulded made due to the weight of the plane

Interior

~ Finely detailed landing gear well

~ Finely detailed cockpit

~ The sleeping berth seats on passenger-cargo come as separate parts

~ Safety harness w/photo-etched parts for great detail

~ One-piece cargo floor rendered in fine detail

Engines

~ Finely detailed 2x R-1830-90C "Twin Wasp" 14-cylinder radial engines

~ Air Scoops are slide moulded w/ authentic details

~ Dust Filters are slide moulded w/ fine detail

~ All intake grill made from photo-etched parts

Wings

~ Optional position flaps

~ The phot-etched fret include comes as in size 55x70mm, contains numerous safety harness

Model Length: 405mm Wingspan:604mm

Total Parts: 370+pcs

Photo film instrument panel

Total 13 sprues plus 3 rubber tyres

CH-34 US ARMY Rescue

Model:02883

1:48th scale

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The Sikorsky CH-34 Choctaw (company designation S-58) is a piston-engined military helicopter that was originally designed by American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky for the United States Navy for service in the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role. It has seen extended use when adapted to turbine power by the British licensee as the Westland Wessex and Sikorsky as the later S-58T. Various H-34s served, mostly as medium transports, on every continent with the armed forces of twenty-five countries — from combat in Algeria, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and throughout Southeast Asia, in roles such as saving flood victims, recovering astronauts, fighting fires, and carrying presidents. As one of the last piston-powered helicopter designs before its replacement by turbine-powered types such as the UH-1 Huey and CH-46 Sea Knight, it would see a remarkably long run of 2,108 H-34s produced between 1953 and 1970.

The markings of the kit

Roles included utility transport, anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, and VIP transport. In its standard configuration transport versions could carry 12 to 16 troops, or eight stretcher cases if utilized in the MedEvac role, while VIP transports carried significantly fewer people in significantly greater comfort.

The kit sprues