One day I was looking at Italeri's 2002 catalogue when I noticed a "Pro-line" of 1:48 aircraft. There were only two planes, one of them a TBF-1C Avenger (8001), the other IL2-m3 (8002). That Avenger had the same boxtop painting as the recently released reboxing of accurate miniatures kit. I presume these are re-issues of AM kit? Should we be expecting an AM sturmovik as well?

I checked Italeri's web site, only found the Avenger, but with a different number (2644). What's going (or what was going) on? Pro-line? A new name for AM kits in Italeri boxes, or a range of pre-finished kits?

Hi Eetu

Yes, the Avenger is a re-box of the AM kit - you can read a review of it here.

The rumour always was that Italeri would be releasing the IL-2 as well, so we'll have to wait and see. It should be amazing value for money if it's priced like the Avenger!

All the best

Rowan

Yeah, I've seen those avenger in my LHS. Looks lovely.