Corgi Release Updates

New to pre-order from Corgi AA29101 Spitfire Mk.IX MK329/JE-J(jr) W/Cdr. J.E. Johnson, No.144 Wing RCAF, ‘Beer Truck’, June 1944. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £54.95. Wearing full D-Day identification markings, Spitfire MK329 JE-J ‘Junior’ was the personal mount of RAF ace pilot James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, one of the RAF’s top scoring fighter aces of WWII and one who’s impressive tally of 34 confirmed aerial victories was scored exclusively against Luftwaffe single engined fighters. Flying extensively in support of the D-Day landings, Johnson and the... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA27608 Hawker Hurricane MkI P2798 LK-A, Sqn Ldr. Ian Richard ‘Widge’ Gleed RAF No. 87 Squadron. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £54.95. When the Hawker Hurricane entered squadron service at the end of December 1937, it heralded a new era of aviation for a Royal Air Force which could now boast the introduction of their first high speed monoplane fighter. From a design perspective, the Hurricane was more evolutionary than revolutionary, taking many of its design characteristic from the successful... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA38511 Messerschmitt Bf 110E-2 (Trop) 3U+KS, 8./ZG 26, Derna, North Africa, 1942. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £76.95. With combat operations against the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain proving to be close to catastrophic for Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter units, you could be forgiven for thinking that the months which followed the fighting over the UK to be a time spent licking wounds and making good losses. In actual fact, even though the Luftwaffe were... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA34114 Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B XT279 RAF No16 Squadron, pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £72.95. During the impressive 32 year service history of Britain’s Blackburn Buccaneer force, surely there can have been no finer looking aircraft than S.2B XT279 in her stunning black livery, even though the decision to present her in this manner was not without some controversy. The story behind this stunning scheme is that during the early 1980s, one of RAF No.16 Squadron’s Buccaneers was finished in... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA37811 Albatros D.V 2263/17 Otto Kissemberth, Jasta 23b, late 1917 Replica aircraft Stow Maries WWI Aerodrome, Essex. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £54.95. Great War German fighter ace Otto Kissenberth has been described as being something of a character, brave and tenacious in the air, but a fighter pilot with a rather unusual trait – he flew combat missions whilst wearing his spectacles, something only two other Luftstreitkräfte fighter aces were known to have done. Given command of Royal Bavarian... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA38908 Fokker D VII (OAW) Ltn. Kurt Monnington, Jasta 18, Montingen (Montoy), Near Metz, August 1918. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £54.95. Undoubtedly one of the finest fighting aeroplanes of the Great War and definitely the most capable fighter to ever see Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte service, the Fokker D.VII was developed in response to the introduction of several new Allied fighter types, aircraft which gained a hard fought superiority of the skies over the Germans. Aircraft such as the Sopwith Camel... Read More