Miniart continues to supply everything you need in your diorama in plastic and in paper form. In this case a brand new set of modern Kuwaiti signage from the Desert Shield era in 35th scale. See what is in the box and the signs that inspired them in our preview...
A six-lane highway linking Basra to Kuwait City, Highway 80 proved to be extremely useful to invading Iraqi forces in early August 1990. In a short time, approximately 300,000 Iraqi troops poured into Kuwait, mostly using this roadway. On August 8, 1990, Iraq officially annexed Kuwait, and on the same day, the first United States Air Force planes began to amass in Saudi Arabia, while NATO and other Arab countries joined military efforts to contain the conflict.
On January 17, 1991, a U.S.-led coalition started hitting strategic Iraqi targets. It wasn’t until February 24 that coalition ground forces were deployed, and three days later, Iraqi troops started retreating from Kuwait. It was over these few days that coalition forces bombed the head and tail of the military convoy, trapping the Iraqi troops on Highway 80. For 10 hours, one airstrike followed another, destroying hundreds of vehicles. The death toll on Highway 80 is a matter of contention, from an unlikely low estimate of 200 casualties to a more credible estimate of 500 or 600 casualties.
Pictures of hundreds of torched vehicles along a strip of asphalt in the desert became iconic images of the Persian Gulf War.
Miniart tells us where to go with new Desert Shield signage...
"Traffic Signs, Kuwait 1990's"
from MiniArt
Kit No #35631
1/35th scale
Miniart has given us a new set of plastic injection poles and the signage to make the roads of Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and subsequent Coalition operation "Desert Shield" to repel the invaders - notably along Highway 80 - nicknamed the "Highway of Death" when Iraqi troops later used it to retreat.
You can see the roadsigns in amongst his carnage...
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Two decal sheets are included in this box, the first has general roadsigns from Kuwait from that time...
The same lettering pretty much is used on the signage...
The second is of the highway signs - those from Highway 80 and others...
...an example of one of the signs here for an accuracy check...
There are six small sprues in the kit containing the roadsigns structures...
That is all we know about this kit so far, See more about all of MiniArt's kits on their website...
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