A little late, but better late than never. MPM have published their June newsletter. Highlight this month is the imminent release of the 1:32 scale Mitsubishi A5M2B Claude kit, a first in this scale. First pictures of the master of an impressive 1:72 scale sunderland are presented as well amongst other stuff.

Dear Customers,
Next MPM Production newsletter comes with the beginning of June. First of all I'd like to announce this year's new releases that will be subsequently released this year. The most complex kit without any doubt will be 1/72 scale Short Sunderland. The master pattern is almost ready for moulds making. We will subsequently release all versions from pre-war Mk.I to post-war Mk.V. The first Sunderland will be catalogued as SH721652 in Special Hobby line. Except of the Sunderland and the June releases, Special Hobby will release 1/32 Ki-27, 1/48 scale Heinkel He 51 floatplane or Ilyushin Il-10 in Soviet markings. Azur line will bring you 1/32 scale Caudron C.714C.1 and 1/72 scale Breguet Br.693 A.2.

June releases

SH32034 A5M2b Claude "Over China" 1:32
Mitsubishi A5M fighter, deployed during the undeclared Sino-Japanese War was for the Chinese pilots a real unpleasant surprise since they were able to dogfight Japanese biplane fighters Nakajima A2N and A4N. The new and up to date A5Ms were tough adversaries. Mitsubishi A5M were for Imperial Japanese Navy produced in several versions, the last combat versions were A5M2b and A5M4. The Sino-Japanese War experiences were applied to these versions. Thanks to their performances these machines fought even in the beginning of the World War 2 in Pacific. The allies' code named this aircraft Claude.
There never was an injection kit of this beautiful fighter in 1/32 scale. The new Special Hobby kit contains four sprues with grey plastic parts, injected windshield and photo-etched parts. Decals included offer two machines from Sino-Japanese War.

SH72149 P-40F Warhawk "Guadalcanal Hawks" 1:72
Even though P-40 Warhawk never reached the performances of Mustang or Thunderbolt, still it belongs to most famous allied fighters of World War 2. It was produced since 1941 till 1945 in many versions. Only two of them were powered by R&R Merlin. These were P-40F and P-40L that participated on African, Italian and Pacific theatres of operation. P-40Fs were deployed to Guadalcanal as a part of Army Air Force. They were successfully used to push back the Japanese forces from the area.
We chose four mesmering machines decorated with white stripes and tails as allied fighter recognition system. All machines wear names, two of them shark mouths and victory makings.

72563 Gloster Meteor Mk.III 1:72
Gloster Company had been developing new fighter aircraft powered by jet engines since 1940. Gloster F.9/40 took off for the first time in March 1943. RAF had initially ordered the prototypes and later production machines designated Meteor Mk.I. Even before the end of the war more powerful version equipped with Derwent Mk.I engines was deployed to RAF. This version was designated Meteor Mk.III. Both versions were deployed on home islands against the V-1 Flying Bombs. One of the flights from No.616 Squadron was relocated to European continent but its Meteors didn't come across any enemy planes so they attacked ground targets. These were the only allied jet powered aircraft that were deployed to combat units during World War 2. Even though, Meteor Mk.IIIs' production was in 1945 replaced by version Mk.4, they served till 1950s.
The kit contains three sprues with plastic parts, injected canopy and decals for 4 RAF machines. Two machines participated in WW 2 (one in special anti-camouflage) and two post-war machines.

A092 F-86K Sabre Dog "Armée de l' Air & Bundesluftwaffe" 1:72
US all-weather fighter F-86K Sabre Dog was used, except other sates, by two NATO states; French Armée de l' Air and newly formed German Bundesluftwaffe. Europe was divided by “High Blue Wall” from Warsaw Pact states.
The kit contains three sprues with plastic parts, highly detailed resin wheels and vacu-formed canopy. Decals included offer four machines. Three of them are in Natural Metal finish, two French ones sport red-white-red bands on fuselage. The last German machine is camouflaged and sports name M.Lenz on left side below the windshield.

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