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MPM Production have released a trio of exciting Special Hobby 1:72 kits, with a pair of P-35s, and a Heinkel He 100D in export markings.

SH72260 P-35 "Silver Wings Era“ 1/72
The late 1930s is nostalgically beautiful era as far as the aviation technology is concerned. Polished and with shiny metallic surface planes and having plentiful colour markings distingushing each unit parade in the contemporary photographs. This apply also to the P-35s. Thanks to many photographs in our archives we were able to prepare really varied selection of P-35s with markings of all three squadrons and also of he Headquarters Squadron of the USAAC 1st Pursuit Group.

Kits parts are in two separate frames and although there is certain similarity with the P-35A / J-9 model, the moulds are in fact different. You´ll find there also injected clear parts, detailed photo-etched parts and some resin parts. The clear parts enable you to build your model either with open or closed canopy.

SH72262 P-35 "War games and War Training" 1/72
The war broke out in 1939 in Europe, and in Asia there were Japan and China already fighting for some years. It was quite obvious that the USA would be involved in the conflict also. The US Army Air Corps increased the number of exercises and also tested and introduced various camouflage schemes on its war machines. Development and testing of the camouflage schemes is portrayed in this second P-35 model. Three machines bear various waterbased temporary camouflages while the last machine is already in typical American war colours of Olive Drab and Neutral Gray. The model parts are identical with the previous
kit.

SH72267 Heinkel He 100D „Soviet and Japanese Test Plane“ 1/72
Heinkel He 100 was competitor to Messerschmitt Bf 109 in the Luftwaffe competition that called for standard fighter. Even though Heinkel He 100’s performances were better than those of Bf 109, it lost the competition. The loss was caused partially by political machinations and also because of the fear of the complex steam cooling system of the modern He 100. Being already built in small series it served for propaganda to create illusion of the new Luftwaffe fighter Heinkel He 113. Also in 1939, it was offered for sale to allied states’ delegates. Japan and the Soviet Union were highly interested in He 100 (Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty was in 1939 still valid; Germany and the Soviet Union had divided Europe into its spheres of influence and briskly traded and cooperated with each other). Remarkable fact is that Heinkel Company kept the existence of this aircraft in secret between each delegation. Also, thanks to this fact both delegations purchased the He 100 in the end. Japanese delegation took three pre-production machines and license production rights, Soviet delegation purchased five or six machines. While there are no available photos on the Japanese machines and the camouflage is reconstruction of its possible appearance, the Soviet machines were tested in the TsAGI. Later, one machine was displayed in TsAGI depository as a part of the war prize exhibition.

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