Corgi Release Updates

New to pre-order Corgi AA38909 Fokker D. VII (OAW) – Ltn. Wilhelm Leusch, CO of Jasta 19, Florenville, Luxembourg, October 1918 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:48 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. For an aircraft which was only photographed during the very final weeks of the Great War, it’s interesting to note just how much detail the Jasta 19 artist managed to incorporate into his beautiful design on this Fokker D.VII fighter. The immaculately painted dragon was an identical copy of... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA27113 Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 – Major Hermann Graf, Jagdges 50, Wiesbaden/Erbenheim, Germany, Autumn 1943 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. A talented footballer and gifted glider pilot, Hermann Graf was considered old at 26, when he eventually joined Jagdgeschwader 51 during the summer of 1939. His early months of service were uneventful, however, a unit transfer to the Eastern Front soon saw Graf claiming aerial victories, along with him quickly becoming the unit’s... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA29105 Spitfire Mk.IXc, MH487, Sqn Ldr Donald Smith, RAAF No.453 Sqn, June 1944 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Learning to fly in his native Australia, Donald Hamilton Smith was posted to an operational RAF squadron following the successful completion of his RAF service conversion in late 1941, and would later spend time flying in defence of Malta. He would be the recipient of an unusual award whilst on the island, as... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA33911 Spitfire Mk.I, R6775 / YT-J, Flying Officer Jeffrey Quill, No.65 Sqn, RAF Hornchurch, BOB August 1940 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:32 scale model are being taken at £139.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. When it comes to the subject of people who became inextricably linked to the legacy and ongoing development of the Supermarine Spitfire, few could claim to have been as influential as Vickers test pilot Jeffrey Quill. Commissioned in the RAF in 1931, Quill joined Vickers as a test pilot... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA35316 Mitchell Mark III, HD372 ‘VO-B’ “Grumpy”, RAF No.98 Sqn, Dunsfold, June 1944 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £84.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Some of the hardest working aircraft in RAF service during the Second World War, the Mitchells of 139 Wing, Second Tactical Air Force were amongst the first strike units to transfer to forward operating bases in France and Belgium following D-Day advances, as these rugged and capable bombers continued to fly close air... Read More

New to pre-order Corgi AA35510 Hurricane MkI, P3966, Pilot Officer J.A. ‘Paddy’ Hemmingway, RAF No. 85 Sqn, Croydon, Surrey, 26th August 1940. ‘The Last of the Few’ Model Plane. This 1:32 scale model is priced at £139.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. A man who came to represent the professionalism and devotion to duty shown by Churchill’s famous ‘Few’ during the summer of 1940, Irishman John ‘Paddy’ Hemmingway joined the Royal Air Force in March 1938 and by the outbreak of the Second World War, was flying Hawker... Read More