Corgi’s Harvest Moon

As we gear up for the holiday season, Corgi seems to be hard-at-work harvesting their latest crop of diecast delicacies. Here’s a quick look at what you can expect from the English modelmaker in the month of September:

For the ground pounders:

#CC60418 – US M3A1 Half-Track – 41st Armored Infantry, 2nd Armored Division, Normandy, 1944 (1:50 Scale)

#CC60309 – British RAF Bedford QL Supply Truck – RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force, 84 Group, Gold Beach, Normandy, 1944 (1:50 Scale)

#CC60013 – German Krauss-Maffei Sd. Kfz. 7/1 8-Ton Semi-Tracked Personnel Carrier/Prime Mover – Unidentified Unit, Deutsches Afrika Korps, Tunisia, May 1943 (1:50 Scale)

#CC60613 – British Cromwell Mk. IV Tank – “Blenheim”, 2nd Armoured Battalion, Welsh Guards, 6th Guards Armoured Brigade, 1944 (1:50 Scale)

#CC60112 – British Churchill Mk. III Infantry Tank – 6th Scots Guards Tank Brigade, Italy, 1943 (1:50 Scale)

For our aviation enthusiasts:

#AA37908 – French SPAD XIII Fighter – S7000, Rene Fonck, Escadrille 103, Autumn 1918 (1:48 Scale)

#AA37809 – German Albatros D.V Fighter – 2059/17, Manfred von Richthofen, Jagdgeschwader 1, Marckebeke, Late August 1917 (1:48 Scale)

#AA36614 – USAAF Lockheed F-5E-2 Lightning Photo Recon Plane – 43-28619 “Rita/Ruth”, 27th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Photographic Group, Eighth Air Force, Mount Farm Airfield, August 1944 [75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion] (1:72 Scale)

#AA38409 RAF Bristol Blenheim Mk. IV Light Bomber – R3843/WV-F, “F for Freddie”, No. 18 Squadron, “Operation Leg”, August 1941 (1:72 Scale)

#AA36909 – German Junkers Ju 52/3m Tri-Motor Transport – D-2600 “Immelmann II”, Adolf Hitler’s Personal Transport Aircraft, Berlin Tempelhof Airport, circa 1936 (1:72 Scale)

#AA33318 – USAAF Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Heavy Bomber – “Flak Eater”, 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, RAF Chelveston, England, August 1944 (1:72 Scale)

As an aside, we were curious as to why the inboard panels of each engine cowling and panel forward of the windscreen was painted green instead of the natural metal finish shown throughout the aircraft’s exterior. This appears on both the Corgi B-17 shown here as well as the upcoming B-17 from Air Force 1. Apparently, after the bare metal finish was adopted by the USAAF, it was discovered that the glare from the metal finish forward of the cockpit and on the inboard sides of the engine cowlings was blinding the pilots inside the cockpit. As a result, khaki green shields were repainted on these selected parts.