News — 17 May 2019

Dear Partners and Friends! We are glad to inform you that our new model kits are already available:

Scale 1:72
#732
Type B Omnibus “Ole Bill”

Type B Bus - an omnibus (bus), created in Great Britain at the beginning of the 20th century to provide passenger transportation. With the beginning of the First World War, a significant number of these vehicles were requisitioned for the army in order to speed up the movement of troops from the rear to the immediate combat zones. Buses of this type were used during the Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme and other significant battles of the Great War.
In addition to transporting soldiers, they were often used for the purpose of delivering military ammunition, provisions and medical supplies equipment. Type B Bus was also used in the first post-war months for the return of soldiers to their homeland, and after demobilization they returned to the streets of London for their main role, transportation civilians in the city. One of the omnibuses got its own semi-official one the name Ole Bill in honor of the caricature character of the British soldier, created during the war years, and took part in numerous post-war events memorial parades as a symbol of the Great War, and today is an honorary exhibit of the Imperial Military Museum of Great Britain in London.

Scale 1:35
#814
Holt 75 Artillery tracktor w/BL 8-inch Howitzer The Holt 75 was a heavy artillery tractor, produced in the early 20th Century by inventor Benjamin Holt in the United States. At first it was used exclusively for agricultural needs, but with the outbreak of the First World War it was brought into military service as a mover of heavy artillery pieces that could not be hauled by the physically limited horse-drawn harness. In addition to Great Britain, these machines were also used by France and the United States. A total of 2,000 tractors of this type took part in the First World War. They became the forerunner of a major new element in the mechanized army - the artillery tractor, since used with great success up to the current day.

Scale 1:144
#300
Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota Mk.III) On June 6, 1944, one of the largest military operations of the Second World War began, which went down in history as Operation Overlord, or Day D. Thousands of Allied forces made a huge landing on the coast of Normandy, using all the technical capabilities of the time, including aircraft. A huge armada of aircraft that morning carried out a massive redeployment of troops, primarily airborne. Thousands of paratroopers who had fallen from the sky into the territory of France very quickly occupied key strategic sites and territories. A special role in this belonged to the outstanding transport aircraft Douglas DC-3b, which hundreds of overcame the airspace of the occupied territory on that day, while delivering parachutists and transport gliders with the goal of the most rapid change of situation in this crucial period of the Second World War. Douglas DC-3 was used both in the US Air Force and in the Royal Air Force under the designation Dakota, and his personal contribution to the history of World War II is particularly significant primarily for his participation in Operation Overlord.