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Airfix Messerschmitt Me410A-1 / U2 & U4 1:72 WWII German Military Aviation Plastic Model Kit A04066

KWD 14

Brand
Airfix
Weight
280 g
StyleMesserschmitt Me410A-1/U2 & U4 - 1:72 Scale
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Special Features

  • Airfix is the oldest UK manufacturer of scale model plastic kits and has been producing kits for the mass market since 1952. Airfix produce a wide range of kits aimed at all types of scale modelers with subjects such as; military aircraft, ships, space, cars, dioramas and military vehicles.
  • Primary Scheme: Messerschmitt Me410A-1/U2, 11./ Zerstörergeschwader 26, Gardermoen, Norway, 1945. Secondary Scheme: Messerschmitt Me410A-1/U4, Stab II./Zerstörergeschwader 26, Königsberg, 1944.
  • Skill level: 2. Dimensions of completed kit: length 17.5 cm x width 22.6 cm x height 4.5 cm. Total Pieces: 137. A great plastic model kit for the intermediate modeler.
  • Painting and assembly required. Paints and glue need to be purchased separately. Includes: Plastic model kit, instruction sheet, paint layout sheet and decals.
  • Humbrol paints needed to complete the liveries are listed on the outside of the box.

Description

The Messerschmitt Me410 was developed as a heavy fighter but went on to perform several roles such as night fighter, bomber destroyer and reconnaissance. Entering service two years later than scheduled in 1943 as a replacement for the Me210, the aircraft featured several distinctive features including the twin gun barbettes. The Me410 was essentially a development of the 210 featuring a lengthened fuselage, revised wings and more powerful engines. The Me410 performed well, but it entered service too late to make an impact on the tide of war and was soon relegated to reconnaissance roles. The Messerschmitt Me410 is undoubtedly one of the most impressive looking aircraft types of the Second World War, the ultimate incarnation of Germany's fascination with the Zerstörer heavy fighter concept. Today, just a single complete example of a Messerschmitt Me410 is to be found on display anywhere in the world, one of the prized aviation possessions maintained by the Royal Air Force Museum at their Midlands RAF Cosford site, the very aircraft Airfix scanned at the outset of this exciting new model tooling project. Although an excellent and extremely heavily armed aircraft, the Me410 could not adequately defend itself against the latest Allied single engined fighters. No match for the latest Spitfires, Tempests, and P-51D Mustangs, once USAAF commanders freed their fighters from bomber protection duties and allowed them to go hunting the Luftwaffe, any advantage the heavily armed Me410s had were effectively negated and if caught in the gunsights of Allied fighters, they were unlikely to survive the encounter. Production of the Messerschmitt Me410 ended during August 1944, when the manufacturing lines were switched to producing single engined Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighters for home defence duties, however by that stage in the war, things were already looking rather futile for the struggling Luftwaffe.

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