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Corgi Release Updates

10/05/2023
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New images added for Corgi AA38211 C-47A Skytrain 42-100521 ‘Night Fright’ 79th TCS, 436th TCG, Membury, 5th/6th June 1944

New images added for Corgi AA38211 C-47A Skytrain 42-100521 ‘Night Fright’ 79th TCS, 436th TCG, Membury, 5th/6th June 1944. This 1:72 scale model is due in stock soon priced at £107.95 with free UK delivery. With the long-anticipated invasion of Europe now imminent, some new arrivals turned up at US Station 466 Membury airfield in the last few days of May 1944, the paratroopers of the famous 101st Airborne Division ‘Screaming Eagles’, members of the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion and a detachment of the 326th Airborne Medical Company. These... Read More

04/05/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA29301 BAe Harrier GR7A, ZD437/49A ‘Michelle’, RAF No.1 Squadron, Operation Herrick, RAF Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2007

New to pre-order from Corgi AA29301  BAe Harrier GR7A, ZD437/49A ‘Michelle’, RAF No.1 Squadron, Operation Herrick, RAF Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2007. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £144.95. Marking a significant development in the history of this magnificent aircraft, the Harrier II may have shared many visual similarities with its famous VSTOL predecessor, however, was actually a very different aeroplane altogether, one which owed much to the American McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Essentially, this new generation of Harrier was a completely different aircraft, a much more capable aeroplane... Read More

04/05/2023
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New and due in stock soon Corgi AA38211 C-47A Skytrain 42-100521 ‘Night Fright’ 79th TCS, 436th TCG, Membury, 5th/6th June 1944

New to pre-order from and due in stock soon Corgi AA38211 C-47A Skytrain 42-100521 ‘Night Fright’ 79th TCS, 436th TCG, Membury, 5th/6th June 1944. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £107.95 including free UK delivery. With the long-anticipated invasion of Europe now imminent, some new arrivals turned up at US Station 466 Membury airfield in the last few days of May 1944, the paratroopers of the famous 101st Airborne Division ‘Screaming Eagles’, members of the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion and a detachment of the 326th... Read More

04/05/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA36617 P-38L Lightning, ‘Putt Putt Maru’, Col. Charles McDonald, 475th FG USAF, Philippines, 1945

New to pre-order from Corgi AA36617 P-38L Lightning, ‘Putt Putt Maru’, Col. Charles McDonald, 475th FG USAF, Philippines, 1945. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £69.95 including free UK delivery. Having seen the introduction of advanced monoplane fighter designs in both the German and Japanese air forces, America was only too aware that their own Air Force was in need of upgrade as a matter of urgency. To this end, an official requirement was issued in February 1937 for the production of a new pursuit fighter,... Read More

04/05/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA27112 Messerschmitt Me109G-6 (Trop), Maggiore Antonio Vizzotto, Regia Aeronautica, 150 Gruppo, Sicily, July 1943.

New to pre-order from Corgi AA27112 Messerschmitt Me109G-6 (Trop), Maggiore Antonio Vizzotto, Regia Aeronautica, 150 Gruppo, Sicily, July 1943. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.99 including free UK delivery. Just as the famous Fokker Eindecker had previously done during the Great War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 would re-define aerial warfare and was an aircraft which was intended to dominate the sky. An aircraft which incorporated all the latest technological developments the aviation world had to offer, this project may have advanced as a lightweight monoplane... Read More

28/04/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA29002 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 ZJ935/DJ, RAF No.11 Squadron, Operation Ellamy deployment, Gioia del Colle Air Base, 2011

New to pre-order from Corgi AA29002 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 ZJ935/DJ, RAF No.11 Squadron, Operation Ellamy deployment, Gioia del Colle Air Base, 2011. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £172.95 including free UK delivery. Now a familiar sight in Britain’s skies, the Eurofighter Typhoon is the RAF’s current airspace defender and whilst the aircraft entered service in back in 2006 as a dedicated air superiority fighter, this fourth generation combat aircraft has gone on to prove itself to be much more than this. Now described as the... Read More

28/04/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA28803 Bristol F-2B Fighter, A7194, Capt. Arthur H Peck & Capt. John JL Williams, No.111 Sqn, Egypt, October 1917.

New to pre-order from Corgi AA28803 Bristol F-2B Fighter, A7194, Capt. Arthur H Peck & Capt. John JL Williams, No.111 Sqn, Egypt, October 1917. With the aeroplane becoming such a vital weapon during the Great War and with the Royal Flying Corps’ Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c reconnaissance aircraft suffering so badly at the hands of the German Fokker Eindecker, an effective replacement in the armed reconnaissance/fighter role was desperately needed. At the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Chief Designer Frank Barnwell was determined that he was going to produce such an aircraft... Read More

28/04/2023
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New to pre-order Corgi AA28703 Fokker E.III Eindecker, 105/15, Vfw. Ernst Udet, Germany, March 1916.

New to pre-order from Corgi AA28703 Fokker E.III Eindecker, 105/15, Vfw. Ernst Udet, Germany, March 1916. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £59.95 which includes free UK delivery. As the savage fighting on the Western Front revealed its insatiable appetite for consuming the lives of young men from all nationalities, a new war being waged in the skies above was about to take a similarly sinister turn. With their understanding of the absolute necessity to gain a control of the air and the wider implications this... Read More

28/04/2023
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New to pre-order from Corgi VA15202 Ford Ranger Raptor South Wales Police Model Car

New to pre-order from Corgi VA15202 Ford Ranger Raptor South Wales Police Model Car, pre-orders for this 1:43 scale model are being taken at £37.95 which includes free UK delilvery. The Police Raptor demonstration vehicle modelled was converted by Ford’s Special Vehicle Preparation Team in Essex during 2019, shortly after the Raptor was launched. The base vehicle cab was stripped down to gain access to the roof and dash areas so it could be fitted with an all-LED blue light and search light facility, plus a sophisticated communications system and... Read More