{"id":4221,"date":"2023-06-20T21:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/?post_type=product&p=4221"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:07:36","slug":"cmr72-240-curtiss-a-12-shrike-radial-engine","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/produkt\/cmr72-240-curtiss-a-12-shrike-radial-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"[CMR72-240] Curtiss A-12 Shrike \u2018Radial Engine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Curtiss A-12 Shrike (Model 60) was a ground-attack aircraft designed in the early 1930s for the US Army Air Corps\u2019 service. Based on the firm\u2019s earlier type, the A-8, the new model was fitted with a radial engine instead of the A-8\u2019s in-line powerplant and also incorporated some other changes.
\nIt was a two-seat all-metal monoplane, with the wing external bracing, and a fixed landing gear. It was powered by the Pratt & Whitney Hornet radial and was armed with four 0.30\u02ba machine guns mounted in the wheel spats and with a fifth flexible weapon of the same calibre in the rear cockpit. Ten 30lb bombs could be carried internally, or four 122lb bombs externally or one 52-gal drop tank mounted under the fuselage.
\nThe first A-12 Shrikes were delivered in November 1933. In total, 46 aeroplanes were produced and this type remained the USAAC\u2019s main attack aircraft of the mid-1930s. However, it soon became obsolete and was phased out of frontline service by 1938. It served both in the mainland U.S. and in Hawaii.
\nTwenty A-12 aircraft, designated the Export Shrike, were sold to China in 1936. Equipped with a more powerful Wright SR-1820 engine, they were marginally faster. When the Japanese opened hostilities against China in July 1937, these planes were soon involved in combat, but many were lost on operations.<\/p>\n

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Colour schemes included in the kit:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Curtiss A-12 Shrike, s\/n 33-217, Black 17, 13th Attack Sq., 3rd Attack Group, US Army Air Corps, Barskdale Field Air Base, Louisiana, U.S.A., 1935<\/p>\n

2) Curtiss A-12 Shrike, s\/n 33-238, Black 38\/7, 8th Attack Sq., 3rd Attack Group, during Winter Manoeuvres, US Army Air Corps, Fort Crockett Airfield, Texas, U.S.A., February 1935<\/p>\n

3) Curtiss A-12 Shrike, Black 144, 26th Attack Sq., 18th Pursuit Group, US Army Air Corps, Wheeler Field Air Base, Hawaii, U.S.A., 1937<\/p>\n

4) Curtiss A-12 Export Shrike, Black 2608, 26th Sq., 9th Attack Group, Chinese Nationalist Air Force, Shanxi province, North China, 1936<\/p>\n

5) Curtiss A-12 Export Shrike, Black 2604, 26th Sq., 9th Attack Group, Chinese Nationalist Air Force, Shanxi province, North China, summer 1937<\/p>\n

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CMR72-240 Curtiss A-12 Shrike Radial_instr web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RELEASED 5\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This full resin kit contains 41 parts, vacu canopy (a spare set is included for modeller’s convenience) and a comprehensive decal sheet.<\/p>\n

This kit replaces the older model (CMR72-5100), which has been cancelled.<\/p>\n

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[model<\/a><\/span>] 1:72 Curtiss A-12 Export Shrike, Chinese Nationalist Air Force<\/p>\n

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