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Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 08:16 AM UTC
Italeri have updated their website with some infos and pictures about their new 1:48 scale Arado Ar 196 A-3 kit. This is a new tooling and the kit will include a beaching trolley.
The Arado Ar 196 was the main embarked recognisance seaplane used by the Kriegsmarine during Second World War. Single engine with low wing monoplane had in the cockpit a two crew members seated in tandem: pilot and observatory – gunner. For its period, the Arado Ar 196 was an advanced modern aircraft. The radial 9 cylinders BMW 132 engine was capable to arrogate 960 HP. The airframe structure of the Arado was optimized for the embarked purposes on main Germans vessels and cruisers. It can be catapulted directly from the vessel and with its fuselage-wing hinges backwards folding wings system, it can be better stowed on board. The fame for the Arado Ar 196 if for being an embarked recognisance (the battle cruisers Scharnhost and Gneisenau had three of them on board while the more famous ship of the Kriegsmarine, the Bismarck, had four Arado Ar 196) was used also in the role of cost shore reconnisance.

Other pictures can be see at the jadarhobby website.

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Merlin
Hi Jean-Luc That's fantastic news! I've got two short-run kits buried somewhere in the stash - and (unless this turns out to be like the Re 2002...) I think they can stay there now! All the best Rowan
DEC 19, 2009 - 08:28 AM
FalkeEins
..always fancied adding an Ar 196 to the collection...time to dig out the old Jet & Prop article on the hellblau Arado that served on the Hilfskreuzer 'Orion' ...
DEC 20, 2009 - 01:09 AM
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