Corgi Release Updates

New to pre-order Corgi AA29003 Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, ZJ914 ‘Blackjack’, RAF Conningsby, 2021/22 Display Scheme. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £167.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. As if a Typhoon display wasn’t appealing enough as an Airshow attraction, RAF officials sanctioned the ‘special presentation’ of their display jet for the 2021 season, a scheme which immediately ensured that Typhoon ZJ914 went on to become the highest profile aircraft in current RAF service. The scheme is a real head-turner, taking design inspiration from the... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA35315 B-25D Mitchell, ‘Red Wrath’ 41-30024, 345th BG, 498th BS, Port Moresby, February 1944. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £10395 including Postage & Packing in the UK. The four squadrons making up the 345th BG ‘Air Apaches’ arrived in Port Moresby, New Guinea during the summer of 1943, routing from Australia, with crews intent on continuing the work started by the 38th BG ‘Sunsetters’ in using B-25 Mitchells as low flying, heavy hitting strafing gunships. Fitted with an additional eight forward... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA36810 Westland Lysander MkIIIA, JR-P, No.161 Sqn RAF A Flight, July 1944, pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. In the months leading up to and just after D-Day, the Westland Lysanders of RAF No.161 Squadron made a significant, yet largely unheralded contribution towards the success of this massive Allied operation. Flying incredibly perilous clandestine ‘Spy Shuttle’ operations, unarmed Lysanders were flown on nights where they could rely on the light of the moon, carrying... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA29103 Spitfire MkIXe, ML407, Sq Ldr John ‘Johnnie’ Houlton, Operation Overlord, June 6 1944. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including P&P in the UK. Constructed as a Mk IXc variant at the famous Castle Bromwich ‘Shadow Factory’ in early 1944, Supermarine Spitfire ML407 stamped her name in history as the first Allied fighter to claim a Luftwaffe aircraft shot down following the Allied amphibious landings on D-Day. It also boasts an impressive post-war flying career which continues to this day.... Read More

New to pre-order from Corgi AA37910 SPAD S.XIII, S.7714, Captain Robert Soubiran, O.C 103rd Aero Squadron USAS, France, November 1918. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including P&P in the UK. A French-born American citizen, Robert Soubiran felt it was his duty to go and fight for the country of his birth at the start of the First World War, travelling to France at his own expense, to join the French Foreign Legion on his arrival. He joined with fellow future Lafayette Escadrille pilots James... Read More