[MKD48013] Fairey Swordfish C&M + 1/48 decals

PUBLISHED IN 2011

RE-RELEASED IN 2022

OUT OF PRINT

The publication has 28 pages, including a total of 44 overall and detailed photographs, 13 pages of colour camouflage schemes and their description. Text in English. A comprehensive decal sheet is added for modellers’ convenience.

This edition also includes a bonus – an extra decal option, the thirteenth in a dozen, while additional colour profiles are also included to cover another aeroplane. The following aircraft are depicted: Fleet Air Arm (11x), Royal Air Force (1x) and Royal Canadian Navy (1x).

Authors: Michal Ovčáčík and Karel Susa
ISBN: 978-80-86637-40-2

Description

The Swordfish biplane – the legendary ‘Stringbag’ – was designed in 1934 to meet the Air Ministry’s requirement for an aeroplane in the Torpedo-Spotter-Reconnaissance (TSR) category. Produced in substantial numbers by the Fairey and Blackburn companies, it became a real workhorse of the Fleet Air Arm fulfilling search and anti-shipping roles, destroying enemy surface vessels and U-Boats and carrying out escort duties with convoys. By 1944 almost 2,400 Swordfish had been completed.

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