Corgi Release Updates

New to pre-order Corgi AA29203 Supermarine Spitfire T9 – SM520 – Spitfires.com – Goodwood. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Even though the heroes of Fighter Command prevented the Luftwaffe from claiming air superiority over Britain 85 years ago this year, the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine flying in the skies above us still has us all immediately gazing skyward to this day, just to catch a glimpse of the iconic aircraft which might be flying... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA36113 Consolidated OA-10A Catalina, 44-33915 ‘Miss Pick Up’ Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £139.95. Operating from its home base at US Station 365 Halesworth in Suffolk in 1945, Consolidated OA-10A Catalina 44-33915, named ‘Miss Pick Up’, was scrambled to assist another Catalina which had been sent to rescue the crew of a downed B-24 Liberator in the North Sea. The aircraft had found itself in difficulties having landed on extremely rough seas. Managing to locate the other Catalina, ‘Miss... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA33423 Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King, NV-70, HS-2 Golden Falcons, USS Hornet, May 1967. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £84.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. When the Sea King became operational with the US Navy in June 1961, it was the largest amphibious rotorcraft in the world, and the first all-weather helicopter to reach production status for the US Navy. A capable and adaptable aircraft, it didn’t take long before the Sea King started to take on tasks other than... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA33016 Corsair MkII, JT537, 1836 NAS, Sub Lt Donald J Sheppard Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Applying to join the Fleet Air Arm at just 18 years old, Canadian pilot Donald Sheppard made his first operational sorties in support of Britain’s attempts to destroy the German battleship Tirpitz at the end of March 1944. He was aboard his home carrier HMS Victorious as she later traded the icy waters of the... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA27708 P-51D Mustang, 44-15152/QI-T ‘Jersey Jerk’ Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. As far as distinctively presented Mustangs of the Second World War are concerned, few were as colourful as the machines flown by the 356th Fighter Group of the US Army Air Force. Flying out of RAF Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, just a short flight from Britain’s North Sea coast, the group were colloquially referred to as the ‘Martlesham Playboys’ or,... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA34318 Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8 ‘Black 1’, Oberleutnant Otto Kittel Model Plane. This 1:72 scale model is priced at £59.95 including Postage & Paking in the UK. The son of a farmer, Otto Kittel didn’t conform to most people’s opinion of a successful Luftwaffe fighter ace, being more reserved and modest than brash and boastful, going about his duties in a ruthlessly effective manner. Initially posted as wingman to a more experienced pilot, Kittel eventually took part in the opening exchanges of Operation Barbarossa with his... Read More