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DeAgostini Fires Up Five More Warbirds for an October Fly-In

The DeAgostini fleet of WWII-era aircraft keeps growing by leaps and bounds with the addition of five more aircraft to the warbirds roster. Like the other aircraft in the series, each comes bundled with a full-color magazine written in Japanese and a handsome bookcase style package. Here’s what you can expect to nab by the end of October:

#DAWF19 – Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M2A “Zero” Fighter – 3-112, 1941 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF23 – Imperial Japanese Navy Kyushu J7W1 Shinden Fighter [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF28 – Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Kawasaki Ki-100 Fighter – 5th Sentai, 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF24 – RAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I Fighter – Flt. Lt. Arthur Clowes, 1940 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF32 – Soviet Yakovlev Yak-3 Fighter – Georgiy Zakharov, 1944 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DeAgostini Sends Four More Warbirds Aloft

DeAgostini’s 1:72 scale Imperial Japanese Army Nakajima Ki-44-II Shoki (Tojo) Fighter – 3rd Chutai, 47th Hiko Sentai, Narimasu Airfield, Japan, 1944 [With Collector Magazine]

Frankly, we’ve been surprised by the success of DeAgostini’s 1:72 scale WWII-era Military Aircraft series, a line of fighters that comes attractively packaged in Japanese-only marketing material. Its a bit difficult to talk up a range when we’re not even sure what the text both inside and outside the box says, although we’re pretty confident collectors aren’t purchasing the line just for the prose. Nevertheless, the models continue to sell extremely well, and we’ve had to re-order several of the models numerous times to maintain inventory. That said, four more fighters are expected to arrive in July, along with yet another restock of models that have been out-of-stock for several weeks running. Here’s what you can add to the DeAgostini stable in just a week’s time:

#DAWF07 – Imperial Japanese Army Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate “Frank” Fighter [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF16 – US Navy Chance-Vought F4U-1A Corsair Fighter – Ira Kepford, VF-17 “Jolly Rogers”, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1944 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF25 – Imperial Japanese Army Nakajima Ki-44-II Shoki (Tojo) Fighter – 3rd Chutai, 47th Hiko Sentai, Narimasu Airfield, Japan, 1944 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

#DAWF35 – RAF Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib Ground Attack Aircraft – No.198 Squadron, Battle of the Faiaise Pocket, France, 1944 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DeAgostini Reinforces its Aerial Campaign

Six more warbirds are set to join the DeAgostini 1:72 scale aerial armada this month, thereby bringing our ever-expanding squadron up to 11 releases from the original 12. We elected to drop the P-51 Mustang from the mix because it did not come in the bookcase format packaging, something we believe adds to the value of the product. The six newest include:

DAWF01 – Imperial Japanese Navy Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-kai “George” Fighter – Lt. Naoshi Kanno, 343 Kokutai, 304 Hikotai “Shinsen-Gumi,” 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DAWF08 – Imperial Japanese Army Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien “Tony” Fighter – Capt. Teruhiko Kobayashi, 244th Sentai, Chofu Air Base, 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DAWF10 – Imperial Japanese Navy Aichi B7A2 Ryusei “Grace” Dive-Bomber – Kougeki 5th Hikotai, 752nd Kokutai, 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DAWF11 – Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M2B “Zero” Model 21 Fighter – Lt(jg) Shigehisa Yamamoto, Akagi, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7th, 1941 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DAWF13 – USN Grumman F6F Hellcat Fighter – VF-24, USS Santee (CVE-29), 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

DAWF15 – German Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 Fighter – IV./Jagdgeschwader 3 “Udet,” Prenzlau, Germany, 1945 [With Collector Magazine] (1:72 Scale)

Each warplane comes packed in its own slick bookcase format case which includes a fully illustrated color magazine written in Japanese. Bear in mind that there are 100 entrants in this series so if you plan to collect them all make sure you have the necessary space allotted to display each of these fabulous collectibles.