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1/72nd Scale

World War Two

Our Current Range of WW2-era 1/72nd Scale Airfield Accessories,
Aircraft Detail Sets and Ground Support Equipment kits.

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This range offers an unparalleled choice of WWII ground equipment, Vehicles and Buildings together with some interesting detail and conversion sets for several aircraft of the period. The 'Firing Line 1/76th list also contains several RAF Vehicles compatible with your 1/72 displays.
The use of ground equipment will assist you in building beautifully detailed settings and dioramas, limited only by your imagination.
Below - a range of kits that will bring your WW2 Dioramas to life and instantly bring that 'Twelve O' Clock High' or 'The Way To The Stars' atmosphere to your displays
RAF/USAAF Airfield Dispersal Set, click to elnlarge.
RAF/USAAF Airfield Dispersal Set  £12.90
This kit contains a wide selection of accessories ideal for those modelling a WW2 airfield dispersal area, including a work platform, tower ladder, two six-rung folding ladders, a superb wind sock, Air Ministry warning sign, hard standing drain covers and four each of both medium and heavy bomber wheel chocks.
RAF/USAAF Airfield Cycles.
RAF/USAAF Airfield Cycles £4.90
Super detailed set in etched nickel silver and cast metal - providing four examples of the most common form of airfield transport. 
Nissen Hut.Nissen Hut.Nissen Hut.
Nissen Hut £14.90
Complete kit in etched brass, plastic, wood and cast metal - provides for building a Nissen hut with alternative style ends and, with or without an entrance porch. Optional dormer windows of two widths are also supplied. Nissen huts were provided at approx. one in three dispersal sites on most WWII heavy bomber airfields.
Standard WWII Airfield Hut.Standard WWII Airfield Hut.Standard WWII Airfield Hut.
Standard WWII Airfield Hut £12.90
Complete kit in etched brass, plastic and cast metal - portraying what is [along with the Nissen Hut], the most instantly recognisable of all WWII airfield buildings - with rendered walls and buttresses, corrugated asbestos roof, and metal window frames. They were on every airfield in a wide variety of sizes and uses [the kit allows modification to differing lengths and the joining of kits]. An instantly evocative and super-detailed kit.

Airfield Air Raid and Blast Shelter Set.Airfield Air Raid and Blast Shelter Set.

Airfield Air Raid and Blast Shelter Set £8.90
A simple complete fold-up kit in etched brass, providing for one of the rectangular brick built shelters seen on both airfields and in towns and villages across Britain and also the entrance and ventilation shaft for the earth-covered blast shelters that were present on most WW2 Airfields - these units are designed to be easily incorporated into your diorama base. 
Airfield Blast Shelter £14.90
A large but simple complete fold-up kit in etched brass for one of the open maze-type brick built blast shelters seen on all airfields. An example of these was usually positioned adjacent to dispersal sites. Again, this model is designed to be easily incorporated into your diorama base - In addition, this set includes no less than 24 sections of PSP Planking [as available below] - as used on many RAF/USAAF airfields - all for no extra charge. 
WW2 Single Engined Aircraft Fighter Pens.WW2 Single Engined Aircraft Fighter Pens.
New! - WW2 Single Engined Aircraft Fighter Pens
These ‘Pens’ or revetments were also built to a larger size for some twin-engined aircraft - but it is the version for single engined fighters such as the Spitfire or Hurricane that we have chosen to portray in these new kits. 

As you will see from the plan there were two pens [left and right handed] and these were mirror-images of each other, with the exception of the emergency exit at the rear - but this itself could be on either the LH or RH pen. For this reason both of our kits [for either the LH or RH version] are able to be assembled with or without the emergency exit.

Obviously a Left Handed and a Right Handed kit can be combined to reproduce a pair of Fighter Pens as shown in the photo and plan on this page.

These etched kits include all the retaining walls and the entrances [both front and back] and corridors to the central shelter. In addition, the kits include a textured etched base for the concrete aircraft hard standing area and for the concrete tie-down points. As with our popular Blast Shelter kits we have not included the actual earthworks in these kits as this is best added using the usual scenic materials and so each kit comes with a scale floor plan template to assist you in this.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of Mr. Paul Francis the author & airfield historian in the development of these kits and for use of these illustrations.

Prices - Left Handed Fighter Pen - £17.90 Right Handed Fighter Pen - £17.90
Control Tower Fittings Set £10.90
This kit includes replacement windows and doors for the Airfix control tower kit, together with safety rails and other fittings. Many of the finely-etched windows can be fitted in open or closed positions.
WW2 Control Tower kit.
New - At Last - an accurate WW2 Control Tower kit in 1/72nd Scale!
We are proud to announce this super-detailed kit for an accurate WW2 control tower. This kit represents the most common type of WW2 control tower by far and was used by all Commands of the RAF and on several USAAF airfields. The kit allows both pre-1943 [12779/41 - large front windows] & post-1943 [343/43 - smaller inset front windows] versions to be built. 

The basis of the kit is etched brass - the kit features finely-etched rendering texture for all building surfaces and with all windows, sills, doors, veranda and other main parts fitted using slot and tab construction methods for ease of assembly. The kit is supplied with cast handrail stanchions and includes guttering, down-pipes and drain covers. An interior floor and wall is included for the main control room. The kit does not include interior detailing. 

In addition - we are releasing a Control Tower Interior and Details Set to coincide with the release of the Control Tower kit - this includes interior furniture and equipment for the main control room, together with a weather vane, wind speed indicator, sirens and a reporting sign for the roof, a meteorological equipment box, printed signs for modelling the signals square and a cast flag mast - together with printed Station Commander's Pennant and both RAF Standard & US flags [the RAF Standard was flown together with the US flag at USAAF bases]. Also included is a cycle stand matched to the cycles in our Airfield Cycle Set.

This set can also be used with the Airfix Control Tower kit and our Fittings Set for the Airfix kit [see above].

Pricing information - Control Tower kit - £44.90 Control Tower Interior and Details Set - £16.90
PSP - Pierced Steel Airfield Planking Set
PSP Airfield Planking £5.90
Accurate etchings for this widely-used material, present on many WWII airfields and advanced landing grounds - fully detailed, these etchings slot together in prototypical fashion.
Trolley Accumulator Set
Trolley Accumulator Set £8.90
This super-value pack contains four of these indispensable items in three styles - used for starting virtually every type of WWII aircraft. They were used by both the RAF and the USAAF in WW2, and on into the 1960s by the RAF. 

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Fordson N Airfield Tractor
Fordson N Airfield Tractor £8.90
Used by the RAF for towing bomb trains, bowsers, and aircraft - this was the most numerous of all tractors built during the war years. A finely detailed kit, supplied with a cast driver figure.
RAF/USAAF Towed Fuel Bowser, with Fordson Tractor
RAF/USAAF Towed Fuel Bowser with Fordson Tractor.  £19.90
Introduced in 1939, these bowsers were used by the RAF into the 1950s, and also by the USAAF in Britain, and were to be found on most UK airfields - supplied with our super-detailed Fordson tractor kit, at a bargain price, the kit features an injection-resin tank unit. 
Thompson TB3 Petrol & Oil Tender
  Thompson TB3 Petrol & Oil Tender £10.90
This fascinating vehicle was used during the war years by the RAF, FAA and the USAAF for refuelling and defuelling purposes. They were also used on civilian airfields both pre, and post-war.
RAF & USAAF WW2 Bomb Train Set - provides six assorted bomb trolleys at a discount price! £27.90
Contents -
2 x Type 'B' Bomb Trolleys - these were introduced in 1937 and used throughout the war - one is supplied with 4 x 250lb GP bombs, and one with an optional load of 2 x 500lb bombs.

3 x RAF Type 'C' Bomb Trolleys - one of the most common bomb trolleys, introduced in 1940 and found on most RAF fighter/bomber & bomber bases and also on UK USAAF bases - one trolley is supplied with 4 x USAAF 500lb bombs [also used by the RAF]. The second trolley is supplied with 4 x RAF 500lb bombs - plus a second load of BOTH US & RAF 500 Pounders is provided so that your third trolley can be made in either configuration. A further option is provided by the inclusion of a sea mine.

1 x RAF Type ‘C.Mk.III’ Bomb Trolley - a larger trolley, used by the RAF in the later war years - supplied with a half load of 2 x 1,000lb MC bombs.  Please Note that we cannot split this set!
RAF Type 'D' Bomb Trolley - with 4,000lb Bomb
RAF Type D  Bomb Trolley £6.90
With 4,000lb Bomb - this unit was introduced in 1941 for carrying the 4,000lb 'Cookie'. Nearly 2,000 of these were dropped by Wellingtons, and over 64,000 by Lancasters.
Torpedo Handling Trolleys + Torpedoes
Torpedo Handling Trolley withTorpedo £4.90
This super-detailed kit provides a trolley in etched brass and cast metal, with a torpedo in resin, with metal and etched fittings. This set will be ideal for your Swordfish & Beaufighter displays.
60lb Rockets with launch rails £4.90
Eight super detailed rockets with launch rails.
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Anson Mk.1 detail Set
Avro Anson Mk.1 Detail Set £10.90
For the Airfix kit, this revised and expanded super-value set of finely etched parts on a large nickel-silver fret, providing all cockpit and cabin framing, plus interior, airframe, undercarriage, engine and wing flap details, together with laser-plotted instrument panel films. 
A.W. Whitley Mk2/3 Conversion and Detail Set £16.90
A set to convert the still available Frog/Novo kit into a Tiger-engined variant. It includes new engines and propellers, exhausts, carburetor intakes and oil coolers, nose unit, transparencies, and fins.
1/72 Lancaster BI/BIII Detail Set (Hasegawa).Avro Lancaster B.I/B.III Detail Set (Hasegawa).
Avro Lancaster B.I/B.III Detail Sets £16.90
This large etched nickel sliver set gives highly-detailed fittings for the interior, and airframe. The set also contains all canopy and turret framing, with turret interior detailing, and new highly-detailed wing drop flap assemblies. This set includes fully detailed cockpit & flight engineer's panels, complete with instrument dial films.
Set A - for Airfix Lancaster Kit - Price £16. 90
Set B - for new Hasegawa Lancaster Kit - Price £16. 90
Avro Lincoln Detail and Conversion Set.
Avro Lincoln Detail and Conversion Set £29.90
Avro Lincoln Detail and Conversion Set - this major set converts the 1/72nd Airfix Lancaster B.III kit to a fully-detailed Lincoln. Included are four Merlin 85 engines with a choice of both fishtail & shrouded exhausts, four-bladed propellers, outer engine nacelles, wing extensions, radome, a fuselage extension unit, and transparencies.

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Bristol Beaufighter Detail and Weapons Set £18.90
This set is for the new Hasegawa kits and includes many etched details for both cockpit/interior, and airframe - plus later rockets, a super-detailed torpedo, replacement engine exhausts, replacement tail wheel unit, with separate yoke.
Resin extended tail fin & thimble nose units are included.
Beaufighter TT.10 Target Tug Conversion Set £16.90
This is a second set for use with the Hasegawa kit, and contains all the etched and general fittings included in the above set, plus the winch generator, extended tail fin and all other conversion parts for this interesting variant. A decal sheet is also included in this set.
B25 Copyright Squadron Prints. See Links Page
Consolidated B24J Liberator Detail Set £10.90
Provides front and rear turret framing, cockpit framing, plus many interior, gun, airframe, undercarriage and bomb-bay details, to help you in making a super-detailed model of "The Soldier"
Douglas DC-2/3 Wright Cyclone Engines.
Douglas DC-2/3 Wright Cyclone Engines £5.90
These super detailed units are available as an add-on to our DC-3 Airliner Set in 1/72nd, for any one wishing to model an early DC-3 or converting the Italieri [or the ESCI kits] back to a DC-2.
Lockheed Hudson Cyclone Engines £3.90
Two resin units for use with the re-issued Airfix kit.

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