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1:72 ApolloRecovery SH-3D"Helo 66"& C.M.

Art.-Nr.: 540011026

Art.Nr.: 540011026
Art.bezeichnung: 1:72 ApolloRecovery SH-3D"Helo 66"& C.M.

The subject of Dragon’s latest 1/72 scale plastic kit is a delightful model of the Sea King helicopter recovering an Apollo Command Module. This new 1/72 kit includes not only this famous USN Sea King helicopter, but a brand new Apollo Command Module as though it had just splashed down in the ocean.

This spacecraft Command Module is newly tooled. It comes with the requisite floating pontoons and three spherical inflatable bags, plus a life raft is included. As for the helicopter, it's one of the most famous USN Sea King helicopter. The white-painted craft labeled ‘66’ was utilized to recover astronauts from the ocean after their Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 capsules splashed down after their space missions. It's the same helicopte used for all these mission. After the Apollo 13 in 1970, the helicopter returned to its normal anti-subarine warfare role. This Dragon kit includes everything needed to depict a dramatic and historical spacecraft recovery scene straight from the box.

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1:72 Saturn IB Rocket

Art.-Nr.: 540011022

Art.Nr.: 540011022
Art.bezeichnung: 1:72 Saturn IB Rocket

In support of the Apollo program, the Saturn IB was employed five times beginning from 1966: to launch two uncrewed CSM suborbital flights, one unscrewed LM orbital flight, significantly the first crewed CSM orbital flight (known as Apollo 7) and one orbital mission without a payload. Subsequently, the 590-tonne Saturn IB was utilized another four times for missions such as ferrying crews to the Skylab space station. The Saturn IB’s final flight was in 1975.

Even in miniature 1/72 scale form, this kit of NASA’s important Saturn IB two-stage rocket is wonderfully large, as the completed model stands nearly 1 meter tall. This model kit has received brand new parts, including lower part of second stage and the complete first stage. All components are beautifully finished and finely engineered, ensuring an easy and accurate build of this American rocket of the 1960s-70s. This Saturn IB kit is delivered with a stable circular base to allow it to be freestanding on the floor or a desktop. Although this 1/72 kit of the Saturn IB is not quite as large as the previously released Saturn V, it’s equally impressive. Indeed, the arrival of this exciting kit will send modelers into orbit!

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1:72 Apollo 13 CSM&LM (50th Anniversary)

Art.-Nr.: 540011020

Art.Nr.: 540011020
Art.bezeichnung: 1:72 Apollo 13 CSM&LM (50th Anniversary)

One of the most famous spaceflight was Apollo 13, which was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to land on the Moon. However, after the spacecraft was launched on 11 April 1970, any lunar landing had to be aborted after an oxygen tank accidentally exploded in the Service Module (SM). Rather than landing on the Moon, the spacecraft looped around it and the three-man crew returned safely to Earth on 17 April. With a shortage of oxygen for life support and propulsion systems, the controllers and crew were forced to improvise to get home safely, a saga that has been dramatized several times in movies. Now, approaching the 50th anniversary of the event, Dragon has released a special 1/72 scale kit of Apollo 13 to honor the courage of those involved.
Model-makers can make either SM in pristine condition as at launch, or the SM after it had been damaged by the explosion. The latter version has an external panel ripped off, and part of the interior is visible. With the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 fast approaching, modelers can relive this dramatic episode in a unique way with a fine 1/72 scale kit.

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1:72 Sd.Kfz.165 Hummel Early Prod. w/Neo

Art.-Nr.: 540007627

Art.Nr.: 540007627
Art.bezeichnung: 1:72 Sd.Kfz.165 Hummel Early Prod. w/Neo

Hot on the heels – or tracks, as the case may be – of Dragon’s new 1/72 scale Nashorn with Neo tracks, comes another kit in this same scale that shares the same tracks. This time it’s the Hummel, a German self-propelled howitzer (SPH) created by installing a 15cm sFH 18 L/30 howitzer on a Panzer IV chassis. The Sd.Kfz.165 Hummel was produced from late 1942 onwards because of an urgent need for artillery that could keep pace with Germany’s panzers. Its combat debut occurred during the titanic Battle of Kursk.

With the Nashorn so recently receiving Neo tracks, it is logical that its close companion the Hummel should do so too. These tracks come with pre-assembled straight runs where applicable, and they can be realistically sagged and shaped by hand. Other parts come as individual links to allow them to perfectly conform to the shape of sprockets, etc. The engineering is top notch. The 15cm howitzer, which is fully seen inside the open-topped fighting compartment, is resplendent in rich detail, as is the rest of the interior. There are even photo-etched parts available to take detail to the next level. A welcome sight, this bumble bee comes right on the tail of a Neo track-shod rhinoceros!