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Four New 1/72 Releases

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Ventura Publications, 1/72 scale

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Ventura Publications has sent the following information and images on their four newest 1/72 scale decal releases for RNZAF subjects. They are available now from Ventura Publications web store.

 

 

Four new 1/72nd scale decal sheets.

  • V72108: RNZAF Catalinas, NZ4001, NZ4030 “China Mail” & late war NZ4046.

  • NZ4001, April 1943. The first RNZAF Catalina with unique "small red dot" roundels

  • Z4030 was chosen to fly post-war mail between the Philippines. Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan. “China Mail” postman art was applied to the nose.

  • NZ4046, a Boeing built PB2B-1, was the second No.6 Squadron Catalina to use the “XX-A” codes. Colour scheme is the factory applied Extra Dark Sea Grey over white. The yellow code letters with given black outlines to stand out on the white hull.

     

 

V72109: RNZAF, “The Home Front”. Corsair “Corsair”, P-40E, Avenger target tug, yellow Harvard.

Four options:

  • F4U-1D NZ5545, “Victory Bonds” tour and Fighter Leaders School, 1945.
    Avenger NZ2503, target tug, 1945.

  • NZ2503 was a drogue or target towing aircraft with Ardmore’s
    Utility Flight in the immediate postwar era.

  • P-40E NZ3007, Gunnery Training School, late 1944. P-40E NZ3007, while with the Gunnery Training School, late 1944.

  • Harvard Mk.II NZ934, Intermediate Trainer, late 1941. Harvard Mk II NZ934 of the Intermediate Training Squadron at Woodbourne in the South Island of New Zealand, 1941.

 

V72110: RNZAF Lockheed Hudsons, Pacific Theatre and Home Front.

 

Five options.

  • NZ4021, “Chips” No.3 Sqn, Guadalcanal, July 1943.

  • NZ2090, No.3 Sqn, Guadalcanal, April 1943. Flight Lieutenant Max W. McCormick and his crew, in NZ2090, attacked and damaged a submarine on April 2nd 1943. Later, on the same patrol, they destroyed a Japanese Type 0 “Pete” floatplane - the first RNZAF air-to-air kill in the Solomon Islands campaign.

  • NZ2014, No.2 Squadron, Nelson, 1942.

  • No.4 Squadron "YZ-H", Fiji, February 1944.

  • NZ2088, “Bashful” No.3 Squadron, 1943.

 

V72111: RNZAF P-40E, M & N-1. Early “white tails” including NZ3148 “Gloria” & home based “XO-R”, “FE-U”.

 

Six options.

  • P-40N-1 NZ3148, the first “Gloria Lyons”, February 1944.

  • P-40M NZ3066 "A", New Georgia, September 1943.

  • P-40N-1 NZ3145 "Taieri", Bougainville, December 1943.

  • P-40M NZ3072 “U”,November 1943, (ex-Wairarapa Wildcat).

  • NZ3031 “XO-R”, No.16 Squadron, April 1943.

  • P-40N-20 NZ3282, “FE-U”, No.2 OTU, June 1945.

 

Thanks to Ventura Publications for the information and images

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