Monday, November 18

Preview: Two more releases from Trumpeter in January

The Famo & crane & an early Battle in the war are the subjects of Trumpeter's January items. We look at the colours, decals & built-up kits in our preview...

Preview: Two more releases from Trumpeter in January

Schwerer Zugkraftwagen 18 t with 6 t Billstein-Crane, Sd.Kfz.9/1 
by Trumpeter
Kit No #09576
1/35th scale
Sdkfz.9 is largest half a creeper truck which Germany used in World War II, begun to develop in 1936 by FAMO Company, put out the productive F3 type formally in 1939, 250 horsepower of Model HL108TUKRM engine which the car installation Maybach Company of the Model F3 produced. This car has many kinds of becoming type vehicles.

The colour schemes presented in this kit
The decals in the box
A new upper body was used for the Sd.Kfz. 9/1 which mounted a 6 t (5.9 long tons; 6.6 short tons) capacity crane in lieu of the crew's bench seat and the cargo compartment. It was issued to tank maintenance units beginning in September 1941.

Model Length: 294.2mm / Width: 135.7mm  
Total of 12 sprues and tires
The kit consists of  over 600 parts
- Details finely represented by newly tooled parts
- Individual tracks links
- Rubber tyres w/fine detail
- photo etched parts included
The model built up by Trumpeter's in-house model builders...


Fairey Battle MKI 
by Trumpeter
Kit No #05831
1/48th scale
The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s for the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. 

The colour schemes presented in this kit
The decals in the box
Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun. During the "Phoney War", the Fairey Battle recorded the first RAF aerial victory of the Second World War but by May 1940 was suffering heavy losses of well over 50% per mission. By the end of 1940 the Battle had been withdrawn from combat service and relegated to training units overseas. For such pre-war promise, the Battle was one of the most disappointing of all RAF aircraft.

Model Length: 275.9mm /Wingspan: 343.4mm
Total of 5 sprues
- The kit consists of  over 140 parts
- Fuselage & wing with finely engraved panel lines

These kits will soon be on sale through Trumpeter's distributors Worldwide...