News — 13 September 2021

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

Scale 1:35
#816
1947 PD-3751 Silversides Bus

GMC PD3751 Silversides is an intercity bus created in the mid-1930s by Yellow Coach for one of the largest trucking companies, Greyhound Lines. The bus was a real revolution in automobile construction, corrugated aluminum and polymeric materials were widely used in its building, and special attention was paid to maximum comfort for passengers because after the construction of a wide network of high-quality highways between all the cities of the country during the Great Depression, rail passenger traffic almost stopped due to the inability to compete with high-speed road transport. Serial construction has been going on since 1939 at the Pontiac West Assembly in Pontiac, Michigan, where General Motors used to assemble pickups and trucks. With the entry of the United States into World War II, there was a problem of mass transportation of recruits at assembly points and in military units of all countries, and to solve this problem it was decided to solve the Greyhound Lines buses. As early as 1942, they carried more than 130 million passengers, both military and civilian, more than the impressive digital, as it accounted for almost half of the country's population. After the war, Silversides continued to operate passenger traffic within the country, and some of them were resold to third countries, mainly to Latin America. This bus is one of the symbols of the United States, as well as Ford's car, Boeing aircraft and embodies the significant technological progress that made this country great in the first half of the twentieth century.

Scale 1:144
#343
Focke Wulf FW200V3/A-09
«Immelman III»

Four engine passenger aircraft, produced in 1937 under the direction of the famous aircraft designer Kurt Tank. Initially, these aircraft were to be used by Germany's leading airline, Lufthansa, on prestigious transatlantic flights, but with the outbreak of World War II, most of them were involved in military missions. One of them, Fw 200V3/A-0, was initially transferred to the Luftwaffe testing facility in Rechlin, and later, after a series of special alterations, it was presented to the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, as a personal VIP transport. The FW-200V3/A-0 was named 'Immelmann III' after the famous First World War ace Max Immelmann, and was used until 1944 on flights to the occupied territories.

Scale 1:144
#336
Douglas C-133A w /
PGM-17 Thor IRBM

Douglas C-133A w / PGM-17 Thor IRBM - mobile strategic aircraft complex consisting of a C-133 aircraft and a PGM-17 Thor missile. The main goal was to quickly deliver intermediate-range ballistic missiles by transport aircraft to remote points on other continents in order to place the missiles as close as possible to the borders of a potential adversary. From 1959 to 1963, missiles of this type were transported to the territory of Great Britain with the help of the C-133A. In October 1962, when humanity was on the brink of a full-fledged global nuclear conflict, the PGM-17 Thor, operational at British bases, was one of the key factors in forcing the Soviet Union to reverse its decision to deploy its missiles in the immediate vicinity of US borders, on the island of Cuba. After the de-escalation of political tensions in the world, all PGM-17 Thors based in the United Kingdom were soon returned to the United States by means of the same C-133A transport.